Listeners write in this week to correct us on the source of shellac and our Dickens' details. Also, an appreciation on our story of black and white friends in Washington, D.C., and a story about a ...

Shellac have shaved off a few layers of fat for their first album in seven years, and the change suits them, although it’s less a change and more a re-discovery of something they once did so well. On ...

Released just 10 days after Steve Albini’s death, the trio’s sixth record closes the book on the band and serves as a reliably excellent epitaph. Of course, the crucial difference with this particular ...