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It's grossly unfair to underestimate the virtues of a band that does an effective job whipping out a brassy, hopped-up mixture of punk and...

Because slow, subtle drones are Labradford's definitive trait, the Virginia trio would seem to be stuck in ambient purgatory. Get any faster or...

Plenty of people have looked up to Mariah Carey over the years, but has anyone ever related to her? It seems impossible: from the beginning,...

Some hip-hop is clearly destined to pass the test of time.

Iara Lee's thorough electronic-music documentary Modulations may have overwhelmed as many viewers as it entranced. After all, the notion...

Losing their fanbase one drone at a time.

It's awfully easy for those who haven't heard it to question the motives behind David Bowie's recent conversion to electronic music—after...

Only in the future, when rock 'n' roll libraries devote full-time curators to Robert Pollard and his flights of fancy both with and without Guided...

Confounding under the best of circumstances, Will Oldham further confused admirers in 1997 by retiring "Palace," the name under which...

Last year was a banner year for Organized Noise, as the production company behind Outkast, Goodie Mob, and newcomer Cool Breeze saw Outkast's...