It's funny the way that troubling periods in one's life have mental playlists undulating beneath the surface of their memories--much in the same way that certai...
Hip-hop has so many different striations and variations now--from the poetics of Saul Williams to the astute rhymes of CunninLynguists to more instrumental rend...
Childlike in its fancy and brimming with a soft pastel folk meets 60s pop, Lavender Diamond conjures gauzy dresses and youth with feathery vocals, plenty of rev...
Electronic dance music is kind of a messy love affair--at least my history with it, which began at some pre-10 age compliments to a hand-labeled, home-mixed cas...
Reality Bites was one of those films whose soundtrack competed with the movie, if only because so many delectable indie bands featured on it, such as the Julian...
Sweeping soundscapes mashing funk with the psychedelic undercurrent that Pink Floyd fans are familiar with, LUST's collection of melodramatic tunes are beats to...
California is not all bubblegum sweet despite what Katy Perry might have you believe. It's also not just a hunk of land overtaken by L.A. and Hollywood to the s...
Otherworldly music that transports me from my own skin to somewhere other than here always garners a guaranteed future listen; when combined with decomposing tr...
If you put a poppier Bob Dylan in a room with a less reflective Leonard Cohen that was biding his time chewing on a Jayhawks record, the musical meanderings of ...
Sweden continues to produce some amazing music–whether it’s airy, acoustic indie rock or sweeping electro-pop , the country’s music scene begs a smile.
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"Chill out or get out," says the mantra of the the Sunday folk or those of us whose lives revolve around the owls of the night even if the office doth come call...
Twilight and dusk: those brief periods where the sky is a certain sunless purple-blue and the cacophony has died off--these are the times for gentle music, for ...