Matt Verta-Ray

This week: reviews of new albums by Lower Dens, Madder Rose, and Adam Green, plus Richard Hawley’s first five albums are being reissued on vinyl, and check out three songs from the new Pernice Brothers album.

The first single is “Needed a Gun,” a funky, bluesy cut with a very moody undercurrent. That is made all the more apparent in the song’s video which is set at a kids birthday party…

Jacky Winter, the Australian musician (not the Australian bird), did solo gigs and was a guitarist-for-hire for years until he discovered The Wu-Tang Clan…