Chris Staples - Golden Age Contemporary R&B The Best of the Grateful

The Best of the Grateful Dead is a good capsule history of a band that usually defies such straightforward narratives

“Ants From Up There” on February 4th via Ninja Tune

certainly contains cinematic elements -- Underwood has been proud to be a diva ever since she prowled the stages of American Idol a decade prior -- but the title isn't a feint

But Banks felt the call to push in a "counterbalancing" direction

Other megastars of the era--Webb Pierce

Chris Staples - Golden Age Contemporary R&B The Best of the GratefulWith two decades of songwriting under his belt, both for prior indie rock bands (Twothirtyeight, Discover America) and for sporadic solo releases, Chris Staples seems to have settled as comfortably as one can into the role of introspective solo singer songwriter with Golden Age. The title references the notion of an idealized past. In Staples' case, it would be a period before the diagnosis of an autoimmune disease, a bike accident that left him