WEDNESDAY: (Singing) Cracked my tooth on a cough drop. Winter stuck around after it's gone. Grocery store on Christmas. Parked too close to someone to get out SIMON: The album is called "Bleeds," and ...

NEW YORK — A pit bull puppy peeing off a balcony. Mounted antlers in the kitchen on a crooked nail. Pink boiled eggs stay afloat in the brine. For its dedicated audience, the North Carolina ...

If you follow new rock and pop music closely and listen to a few hundred new albums a year—this is mostly the realm of music critics, admittedly—you know how rare it is to find a young songwriter with ...