If you’re having a rough day and need a good cry (or maybe a laugh), look no further than Father John Misty’s third studio album, “Pure Comedy.” The album offers a depressing musical journey...

  It was 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, and audience members were being swallowed by a uniform group of 20-somethings, their elbows trapped in a wave of bright flannels and baseball caps, knees driving...

“I’ve got nothing to hide from you,” Josh Tillman belts on his knees, as he facetiously attempts to shelter his head under his suit jacket. Tillman — better known as folk-pop artist Father John...