Eight years ago, the surf-rock masters Los Straightjackets released What’s So Funny About Peace, Love, and…, a tribute album to Nick Lowe. A few years later, the Nashville-based quartet known for ...

There’s a radio playing in the apartment next door. The walls are thin enough that just enough of the sound bleeds through. Nick Lowe is standing at the sink, doing the dishes when he catches a bit of ...

Nick Lowe manages to pull off that tricky feat on his just-right 1990 song “What’s Shakin’ On The Hill”. He does so by imbuing the narrator with heart-tugging melancholy. We root for him to one day ...