For those who missed the furore caused by their first release, Hayseed Dixie are a bunch of badass blue grass performers who began doing covers of AC/DC songs then gradually expanded their repertoire to increasingly bizarre choices of music. There's a strong vein of 'novelty record' to e...
At 27, Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst already has enough career behind him to establish a trajectory. His rise has been uncannily similar to writer Dave Eggers': Both came under public scrutiny for...
"You have to see them live" is a phrase that's probably hurt more bands than it's helped. For every Bruce Springsteen or Metallica, whose epic performances helped fuel massive record...
You have to lower the stakes after an album like Ys, because you can't raise them. Joanna Newsom's follow-up is a lot less formally ambitious: A three-song quickie, with one new song and two o...
The vanishing-point music created by drone elders Phil Niblock and, especially, LaMonte Young is what happens when a fixation on held tones reaches a tipping point. Timbre is reduced to either a singl...
Between the name of the band and the title of the album, you've pretty much been told everything you need to know about this band. Listening to this album is like experiencing a full range of emot...
Geri is more famous for appearing in weekly glossy celebrity magazines than, well doing anything else. Mel B is caught up in a bizarre paternity battle with none other than Eddie Murphy. Victoria has ...
When Mike Scott bounded on stage to sing with Colin Melloy at The Decemberists' gig at Shepherd's Bush, London this year he looked completely unchanged, a stick of a man in tight dark trousers...
When it comes down to the big three producer-MCs who have defined club-friendly rap over the past decade-- Diddy, Pharrell and Timbaland-- Tim's the one who's been best able to rein in his sel...
The first time you hear the Twilight Sad, a four-piece band from just outside Glasgow, they already sound familiar. It's like they've been around a while, even though their debut EP only came ...