Michigan-bred singer-songwriter Mayer Hawthorne has a little problem with being taken seriously. His throwback…
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In a way, 2010’s Strange Weather, Isn’t It? was !!!’s coming-out party. After serving the dance-punk underground…
The production credits on Wavves’ fourth album are misleading, to say the least. The only thing remotely hip-hop…
Calling Devendra Banhart’s music freak folk is both lazy and condescending. But damn if that dude’s not freaky and…
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No matter what Trent Reznor does—scores a bestselling videogame, wins an Oscar, forms a new band with his wife—he’ll…
Now that Mark Oliver Everett has put Eels’ trilogy of concept albums about lust, love, and loss behind him, he can…
Christopher Owens’ backstory always comes dangerously close to trumping his front one. The former singer and…
Back in the late ’70s and early ’80s, every small town in America had a band like Free Energy. They typically were…
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Like most of the albums Kid Rock has made since the turn of the century, Rebel Soul, his ninth, doesn’t snugly fit…
Back in 1991, when Massive Attack’s debut album, Blue Lines, was released, there wasn’t a whole lot of music that…
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Taylor Swift hasn’t become one of the most vital artists of the 2000s just by writing monster hooks. Those certainly…