It's now been 42 years since the long-beloved, tough-as-hell country-rock singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams released her debut album. Her masterpiece Car Wheels On A Gravel Road came out in the waning days of the Clinton administration, when Williams was already a hardened veteran. Lucinda Williams is now 67 years old, and her voice still carri...

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have no doubt witnessed the recent momentum of Bernie Sanders' campaign to become the Democratic nominee for president. Already a beloved figure, he's leapt to the front of the pack. And perhaps it comes as no surprise regardless that a lot of young artists have thrown…

The Tragically Hip were beloved national treasures in their native Canada. They attained that stature long before frontman Gord Downie's death in 2017, but Downie's terminal brain cancer diagnosis inspired many Canucks to express their admiration, sometimes by covering the Hip's music.

Earlier this year, the Silver Jews and Purple Mountains mastermind David Berman, one of the most beloved writers in the history of American indie rock, died by suicide at the age of 52. Since then, there have been a great many fond remembrances of Berman, from a Tennessee Titans scoreboard message to a full tribute…

Nick Cave has already been a cultishly beloved icon for years. But in recent times, partially driven by excellent late-career work from Push The Sky Away to Skeleton Tree to Ghosteen, Cave has ascended to a different place. He's taken on a whole new stature as one of our great songwriters, recognized for the quality…