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Set the controls for the heart of the sun — or, by the sound of it, a chilly flat in gray England — on the latest single from
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Ay yi yi, these are stressful times! What with cold war déjà vu, climate change jamais vu and Congressional healthcare doodoo freaking us out, we could use the
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Consider the dilemma of the established alternative musician: as fans’ ears for earlier adventures gets recast as “adult-oriented,” the artist can go on pushing boundaries and hope audiences
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Retired Pulp frontman and emeritus nerd heartthrob Jarvis Cocker returns with a new album to seduce adventurous listeners: Room 29, a collaboration with Canadian composer Chilly Gonzales. This
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So it’s 2017, which means we’ll be drowning all year in “it was 40 years ago” milestones commemorating punk rock’s year zero. As cynical, seen-it-all punks ask what
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Go ahead and call her “Stella,” but you’re gonna want to figure how to type the Greek sigma character if the new ∑tella album becomes your sudden obsession
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Through her band King Woman, Kristina Estfandiari presents a new, necessary icon of female power for the current day. Informed but unfulfilled by a prior legacy of women’s
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I’ll be honest: it takes a hell of a lot these days for indie-folk music to get me out of my chair. Just because someone can fingerpick chords
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21 years later it’s hard to remember just how big a hammer blow the original soundtrack to Danny Boyle’s film “Trainspotting” was to the mid-1990s pop music scene,
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It does my heart good to see that Washington, DC still plays for keeps with guitar-bass-drums punk created in an independently produced, communally minded context. The scene’s legendary
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