Pretenders "Pretenders" (40th Anniversary) Alkaline Trio Connor Oberst) at ARC Studios

Connor Oberst) at ARC Studios

Simple and soothing

Doug Martsch's unbelievably great new album (and his eighth full-length)

On its release date

Pretenders "Pretenders" (40th Anniversary) Alkaline Trio Connor Oberst) at ARC StudiosChrissie Hynde launched the Pretenders with an engaging, yet passive, version of the Kinks Stop Your Sobbing. she unveiled her own persona fully on the pretenders, which contains a series of excellent compositions marked by her sensual vocals and brilliant sense of dynamics. An understanding of pop's structures allowed Hynde to exploit them to her own ends while sympathetic support, particularly that of guitarist James Honeyman Scott, used the