Topic: P.J. Harvey

Thus went the playful text from an attractive guy-friend who had just come to one of my shows. He had given me the cursory "Nice show slash I'll...
The results are in! Village Voice has revealed the results of 2011's Pazz and Jop poll, which asks music critics across the country to name and...
June Tabor owns one of the most severe voices in modern music. Dark in color, dry in inflection and deep enough in pitch to unsex her, it's the...

PJ Harvey wins Britain's Mercury Prize

Singer-songwriter PJ Harvey has won the 2011 Mercury Prize for her album Let England Shake.. . This is Harvey's second Mercury Prize and fourth...
Writing on Twitter, Tyler downplayed Albini and his remarks.. "Feel Like I Have To Defend Myself. 1 Idk Who The F*ck Steve Albino [sic] Is 2. I...
Long before the Polaris Prize, there was the Mercury Prize, the U.K.'s annual award for the "best" album of the year.. . The British prize has been...

See Coachella in the Bay Area

0 . Dry your eyes. Just because tickets for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio are sold out doesn't mean you're out of luck...
Illustration by Kagan McLeod. . By Mike Doherty. . “Don't you remember when you were young / How you wanted to set the world on fire?” sings Tim...
Who could possibly beat new life into the tired beast known as the protest song?. . Leave it to PJ Harvey. Not only did she pull off that unlikely...
My romantic archive resides in the basement, in an airtight box. Here, underneath beribboned bundles of love letters, I keep a handful of scuffed...