I don’t believe any of us can recall the very first time we heard James Brown, but more than likely it was through some commercial project attempting to utilize “I Got You (I Feel Good)” …

To even the non-believers, I say…good music still exists, and on this day of days it is provided in two lump sums. The first being the twenty four song Christmas themed mash-up mix “Santastic …

Though it wont be released for another month, Norah Jones’ highly anticipated third studio album Not Too Late stands as something that could either identify her as a centerpiece of her generation, or demote her …

[by Monika Bullette]
In 2006 The Sky Drops recorded and released our debut EP Clouds of People, toured the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard, played several shows in London, and started preparing new songs for our next …

There’s something far deeper and challenging beneath the surface of GQ’s recent Man of the Year award which was given to hip hop breakout Lupe Fiasco. The award’s meaning doesn’t come as relevant simply …

[by J-Sun Atoms]
It’s been an interesting year because I expected our album to come out, but that’s what happens when you expect something. Thank the universe for showing us who’s the boss and slowing …

How is it that the band with one with the year’s best EP in disguise as a LP can be so unknown? Not even in sense that your borderline indie, borderline corporate music mag …

The DVD begins and the world is transformed, a first person experience as a man with a mission, on an evening like no other, a socialites dream somewhere in a mansion in the deep South. …

[by Kevin Lenhart]
I think it’s always a good year for music, whether or not you consider the albums that have been released that year to be good work. Music that we deem bad can …

#25) Arty Fufkin “Barrel of a Goo” (mp3)
(Beastie Boys vs. Sonic Youth)
Had you heard this song without any previous knowledge of the Beasties but “Sabotage” you’d have no other choice but to believe it to …

Lists are beautiful and painful for a number of reasons; reasons which are, well, also beautiful and painful. At times they are thought provoking, shocking and insightful – beautiful, right? But the most …

It will take Rid of Me another half decade before it settles in with a new audience, the children of those who it was first adopted by. Harvey’s music was timely and appropriate considering …