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There is a fine line that a musician walks when he also chooses to write about his fellow musicians’ work, so I usually try to keep on the sunny...

Abandoned City, the newest album from German experimental musician Hauschka, is at once restless, exuberant, and wonderfully intimate.

The closing of 285 Kent, the former warehouse in waterfront Williamsburg, saw more press coverage than all the talented artist and musician...

Picture yourself in a world ruled hand-in-hand by Aleister Crowley and Jesus Christ. Every moment feels like you're on the edge of the apocalypse...

Tensnake is a man who makes dance music. And, quite humbly, he makes the music dance too. He’s a man who gives respect to those for whom it is due:

I don't want to talk about Carla Bozulich's new album Boy in the context of her career. I'm skeptical that progress is a meaningful concept...

To clear the air here: I wanted to write about Earth Crisis in 2014 because I used to be straight edge in 1986. Saying that makes me the enemy:

I've got these new jeans, that when you take them off you have to take off your socks first. The denim, it has no stretch in it, and they just...

When I was 19, I studied abroad in Madrid, and for the most part I liked it a lot. Broke enough that I dared not waste my scant euros on Metro fare...

Justin was the name of the first guy I ever made out with. He was pale, with dyed black hair, fishnets on his arms and a blank expression. I was 15...

This is the type of hip-hop that can make you feel invincible. It makes you drive a little faster, scowl a little harder, move your head...

Jeff Lynne is the most analytical rock star of his generation. Take the Electric Light Orchestra hit "Strange Magic": there is a phaser on the...