Last week, Netflix released a new movie called Lost Girls, a mystery about a mother who goes looking for her missing daughter and leads the police to discover a serial killer who's been murdering sex workers. It stars Amy Ryan and Gabriel Byrne, and it looks incredibly fraught and depressing. I'll probably watch it, especially…

It's now been 42 years since the long-beloved, tough-as-hell country-rock singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams released her debut album. Her masterpiece Car Wheels On A Gravel Road came out in the waning days of the Clinton administration, when Williams was already a hardened veteran. Lucinda Williams is now 67 years old, and her voice still carri...

Lucinda Williams has announced a new album, Good Souls Better Angels, the follow-up to 2017's Sweet Old World rerecording This Sweet Old World and her first full-length of new material since 2016's The Ghosts Of Highway 20. Williams co-wrote many of the LP's songs with her husband, Tom Overby, and they co-produced it with Ray…

Another covers album is to be releasedPhoto of LEMONHEADS and Evan DANDO; Posed portrait of Evan Dando (c), Gram Parsons t-shirt The Lemonheads have announced their return with a new album dropping in February 2019. ‘Varshons II’ is the follow-up to the Boston band’s 2009 covers album, ‘Varshons’...

Crusty, eccentric 68-year-old Tom Waits does things on his own schedule, when he feels like it. Before this morning, we hadn't heard a new recording from Waits since February of 2016, when he and Lucinda Williams covered a Blind Willie Johnson song. But today, Waits has showed up on a new track. Once again, it's…