Blog: Pitchfork: Forkcast

The ninth Pretenders album and the first for Santa Monica-based indie Shangri-La Music features a new lineup that includes members of the Pernice Brothers and Son Volt. Resituating the Pretenders' sound in a roadhouse, the new band infuses leader Chrissie Hynde's lefty-righteous rockers with bar-band bravado. read more