I’m sure you’re well aware of the cliché that culture oscillates in 20-year cycles, which makes it absurdly fitting that many of 2012’s most notable ...
By Gil Kaufman It's practically the "Stairway to Heaven" of rap, so it's fitting that Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's 1982 landmark single,...
Welcome to Buzzworthy's "The Week In Pop," where we round up new album releases, talk show musical guests, and TV performances by your favorite pop st...
Festival Season 2012 is nearing its end. When we look back at the various fests we’ve experienced during the spring and summer, we’ve thought a lot ab...
Lollapalooza 2012 is here! As the festival takes over Chicago’s Grant Park, those who can’t attend -- or those who just aren’t there yet -- can enjoy ...
Though Sonic Youth may be on an indefinite hiatus, Thurston Moore unveiled a new band today called Chelsea Light Moving. The new group is a four-piece...
Michael Chapman was right at the core of the late-‘60s British singer/songwriter scene, alongside the likes of Nick Drake, John Martyn, et al. Like th...
Jack White seems to be unsatisfied with the place in history he has attained through his work with the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, and a multitude ...
Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and M. Ward shared a bill this last Friday (May 11) at New York City's Webster Hall, a billing that would excite anyone remo...
Every week or thereabouts, Mutant Dance Moves takes you to the shadowy corners of the dancefloor and the fringes of contemporary electronic music, whe...
There's a cycle of musicians and technology that goes like this: Certain kinds of new tools become popular; lots of artists who are chasing success b...
If there’s any takeaway from the slow, brutal decline of big business record labels and the rise of contemporary music’s internet-centric hype machine...
VH1's is debuting our list of the "100 Greatest Women in Music" this evening at 10 p.m. ET/PT. These five, one-hour specials are the latest in our on-...
I wish there was a less awkward way to put this, seeing as how they secured their legend in large part due to one of hipsterdom’s universally accepte...
For the last few years, Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox has played an annual "Christmas show" under his Atlas Sound moniker at a small club in New Yo...
