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One doesn't have to look too deeply into the effect of the African diaspora on music to start hearing about noise and distortion. The ...

Just a few of 2013's notable reissues You don't have to be an industry pundit to know that the music business is in transition...

Music serves many purposes in our lives, which is why we welcome so much of it. The records in the top 20 are like complex single malt Scotc...

I'm not going to start, as I usually do, by commenting on the quality of the year's music. I believe that if you're hungry for...

Sometimes it seems that ambition is a dirty word, a way to damn with faint praise and an acknowledgment that an artist's ideas have e...

Full disclosure: as I've mentioned before, I was in a band in high school, the Young Aborigines, that morphed into the Beastie Boys. ...

Biography Schmiography "Neither of us could stop laughing, and finally I said, 'I can't take any more pleasure, John. I can...

Domino Kirke was first up at Knitting Factory on October 29th, and she played a sweet, short set of her dark-hued psychedelic ballads, growi...

Am I the only one who felt a slight sinking sensation upon realizing that Scorcese's brilliant film about Dylan, No Direction Home, wa...

"Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible jo...