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The American Southwest has always sounded larger than its population centers suggest. Heat shimmer, highway dust, neon signs, borderland rhythms, and wide-open…

A great road trip needs more than scenic overlooks and a reliable tank of gas. It needs a soundtrack with enough velocity to push through long highways, desert…

Rock once treated the guitar solo as a central dramatic event. A song could pause its forward motion, open a new door, and let a player turn melody, noise, and…

Rock music has always depended on rooms where the stage is barely raised, the speakers are pushed too hard, and the crowd stands close enough to feel every…

Rock has been declared dead so many times that the obituary now feels like part of its marketing. Every generation watches guitar bands lose cultural…

Few images belong to rock music as completely as the motorcycle: chrome under streetlights, an open road cutting through the night, and an engine sounding like…

Few landscapes carry as much musical voltage as the American Southwest. Open highways, red-rock canyons, ghost towns, neon motels, and enormous skies have long…

The Black Keys have always sounded best when the distance between a riff and a recording microphone feels almost nonexistent. On Ohio Players, Dan Auerbach and…

Garage rock has never needed permission to sound rough, urgent, or gloriously out of control. The newest generation is carrying that spirit forward while…

The 1970s are often reduced to flared trousers, arena excess, and the final fumes of classic rock. That shorthand misses the decade’s real achievement: rock…