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I didn't listen to much hip hop in the mid-to-late 90's (too busy listening to Portishead, Tricky and Massive Attack - all indebt...

The more rapturous the reception to an album, the more devoted the fans for a band, the greater the expectations for any subsequent relea...

At the end of his liner notes for The Julius Eastman Memory Depot , Jace Clayton (also known as DJ/Rupture) writes "I interpret the ...

At the risk of having a TMI moment, I'm going to share the fact that there's a little part of my brain that is dedicated to Grac...

I have a not so hard and fast rule about avoiding multiple performances by a band or musician during the same album cycle. This is partly to...

My approach to Record Store Day is both serendipitous and practical. If I'm going to a favorite store like Other Music , I know there ...

  In 1984, about three years after their first record, news of The Replacements rippled out from Minneapolis. Let It Be was their third...

I first heard the band Napoleon when they played with Mystical Weapons at Santos's Party House earlier this year. I ended up befriend...

A short while ago, I posted a review of Parquet Courts in concert and called it "Buzz Buzz In Your Eardrum," after the Wire so...

Art is often the expression of the ineffable, and no art form is this more true of than music. Why does a chord sequence or a melody have ...

When I was 16 I discovered both David Bowie and Burning Spear. I remember writing to a friend that Spear made me feel grounded, at one wi...

Simone Dinnerstein stunned the world of classical music in 2007 when her self-produced recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations shot t...