It must have been a dismal childhood that Robert Allen Zimmerman spent in the town of Hibbing in the upper Midwest US state of Minnesota - somewhere in the middle of nowhere, with long dark winters, ...

Rock critic Ken Tucker recommends three songs that are recent additions to his playlist: "Are You Even Real," by Swims; "Same Kind of Lonely," by Booker; and "big change," by Young.

Eric Church will release his new album, the curiously titled Evangeline vs. The Machine, on May 2. It’s the follow-up to 2021’s three-disc opus Heart & Soul and includes the previously released ...