Music Archives

A preening art collective that sweeps irony and forthrightness into oblivion, Fischerspooner has made a game of tightening its own noose over...

The Pixies' long shadow has only recently begun to recede from the specter of '90s rock; the soft/loud dynamics of the band's jagged punk-pop...

Throughout his long and scattered career, LL Cool J has constantly reinvented himself to stay competitive in the ever-shifting Darwinian hip-hop...

By combining elements of soft rock, lounge music, soundtrack work, and hip analog-synth fetishism, Air stumbled upon a winning formula that...

In 1998, Scotland's Idlewild released Hope Is Important, a scrappy, scabrous little collection of catchy punk songs. It was far from...

Retro-belter Sharon Jones preaches the gospel of R&B.

Once The Sex Pistols blew open the doors of musical revolution in late-'70s England, half-assed punk bands and ambitious New Wave outfits began to...

Richard Thompson offers a whirlwind tour of pop songs, from Old English ballads to Britney Spears.

The famed and beloved guitar instrumentalists in Man...Or Astro-Man? specialize in riff-driven three-minute blasts designed to make listeners wrap...

Few acts get to define a genre, much less direct it. Since its 1991 debut Blue Lines, Massive Attack has been synonymous with trip-hop,...