So many covers today! Here’s another one: Ryan Adams, playing live at Boston’s Orpheum this weekend, doing a lovely solo-piano cover of Galaxie 500′s classic “Blue Thunder,” a sort of holy text for all the dreampop and slowcore that followed it. And since Galaxie 500 were a Boston-area band, that...

Ryan Adams appeared on Letterman's show and did a Live On Letterman webcast, as well

On last night’s episode of the Late Show With David Letterman, Ryan Adams came through to perform the exact same lovely solo-acoustic version of “Lucky Now” that he’s already done on a few other shows: Same tricolor guitar, same quilted leather jacket, same unassumingly great song. Except this time, he did...

If Hüsker Dü or Sugar were before your time, do yourself a favor and dig up their old catalogs. Both venerable bands were fronted by Bob Mould, and an all-star assortment of music luminaries assembled to celebrate the music and legacy of Mould’s vast catalog at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Britt Daniel, Ryan Adams, [...]

I’ve been to Sweden before. It fucking rules, even if everything is expensive and the 7-11s on every corner don’t sell taquitos. It’s a gorgeous place where everything looks like a more evolved version of everything in America (even, like, the coffee cups) and all the people are both attractive and perfectly friendl...