Album

One of the highlights of Dave Alvin’s last solo album, 2011’s Eleven Eleven, was a track called “What’s Up With Your Brother?”, a droll blues about Dave’s famously fractious relationship with his brother, Phil, that ended hilariously with them having the kind of argument that put paid to The Blasters, the band they were in together before fraternal tensions drove them into a ditch. They split in 1985, after just five albums. While Dave became dedicated to life as a hard travelling road dog, Phil completed a master’s degree in mathematics and artificial intelligence.

Matt Berninger's awkward little brother creates a strange and moving documentary...

Heart and teeth bared in a vivid portrait of the riot grrrl spearhead...

Third Man maverick shows little sign of mellowing on wild and witty second solo album...

Noise abatement! The Scots' chilly, sparse masterpiece gets a lavish, four-album treatment...

The shambolic Bright Eyes auteur submits to a Wilsonian extreme makeover...

The infamous mail-order tape gets a lavish three-disc treatment...

Field music: Swindoners’ pastoral epiphany, finally as nature intended...

Portland garage rock refuseniks still doing it their way. The first three albums, for the first time, on CD...

Following the triumph of El Camino, Auerbach, Carney and Danger Mouse roll the dice, play it where it lays...