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Music Review: Kendrick Lamar
By Katie Zaborsky | October 25, 2012Kendrick doesn’t provide answers on how to live, he provides answers for how he lives.
Kendrick doesn’t provide answers on how to live, he provides answers for how he lives.
‘Allelujah! represents a strong return to what made Godspeed famous—music that traverses several distinct emotions in a single track.
I think about electronic dance LPs in the same way I think about baseball lineups.
It’s great that artists like Tom Waits, John Cale and even Thurston Moore are embracing the creativity of this generation on not just resting on their laurels of past success.
Everyone agrees (or at least I hope everyone agrees) that we should remember Nina Simone. But which Simone?
If there’s one word to describe The Mountain Goats, it’s prolific.
FlyLo lovers, haters and newbies can unite over Ellis’s latest mindchild.
The album doesn’t quite live up to the revolution its namesake inspired.
I hate to be a slave to traditional structure, but I think if YOKOKIMTHURSTON lent itself to some melodies, they could have created something fantastic.
With the right mood and some patience, you can be truly moved.
Whereas Veckatimest was bold, grand and majestic, Shields is too complacent.
It seems like the members of Dinosaur Jr. have finally learned what most second-graders master—how to get along with each other.
It’s not often that a university can bring in an established group like The Bad Plus to work with its graduate students.
If Kanye had ever been interested in art for art’s sake, he’s not now.
Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, describes herself as “the place where poetry goes to die.”
The newly released Coffeehouse lineup for fall 2012 has both Triangle musicians and Duke students jittery with enthusiasm.
Coexist stands out because of the nuanced relationship between the two vocalists.
Dylan will always be here, donning a bemused expression and his Panama hat.
If anyone knows how to get over a breakup, it’s Jens Lekman.
At Hopscotch, Matthew E. White will present “the biggest production that [the festival] has ever done.”