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By Ross Green | July 1, 2011YACHT is an old moniker—one Jona Bechtolt has recorded under since 2002—but the project didn’t take off until 2009.
YACHT is an old moniker—one Jona Bechtolt has recorded under since 2002—but the project didn’t take off until 2009.
Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, calls herself “new kind of woman.” She’s not afraid to use alternating caps, sings ambivalently of sex and violence, plays the ukulele and makes a kind of pop that...
Press your ear to the pavement above the London underground and you might just hear, rumbling distantly below, the ghostly sounds of Burial.
The momentum of critical consensus has given Animal Collective and its associated projects a pretty long leash, due in large part to their reputation as something more than the typical hipster-set...
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s self-titled 2009 debut was without reservation an artifact of the ’90s, and drew comparisons to any number of that decade’s indie touchstones.
Blood Pressures, the Kills’ fourth studio album, could be described as the culmination of lead singer Alison Mosshart’s musical endeavors from the past few years.
If John Darnielle’s not going to make you dance, he’ll at least make you think.
According to Wiz Khalifa, hip-hop’s latest weed-rap sensation, the title of his third album, Rolling Papers, doesn’t just allude to smoking weed.
“I can’t be bothered with paying homage to forefathers.” That’s how Pusha T starts Fear of God.
Welsh indie rockers the Joy Formidable released critically acclaimed debut LP The Big Roar in January, and will perform at the Duke Coffeehouse tonight with the Lonely Forest and Mona.
People generally consider the Strokes’ 2003 sophomore effort Room on Fire an inferior follow-up to their relentlessly hyped 2001 debut Is This It; I’m one of the few who disagree.
The Bad Plus have covered everyone from Aphex Twin to Black Sabbath to Rodgers and Hammerstein. Next up: Igor Stravinsky.
Dissent lurks in the ranks of the Wu-Tang Clan
In light of Lupe Fiasco’s upcoming March 31 performance at Duke, Recess Editor Kevin Lincoln and Music Editor Ross Green discussed Lupe’s recent release, Lasers
Fiasco’s concert will mark the first time the baseball field of Erwin Park is being used to host a concert, according to a DUU press release.
The Rural Alberta Advantage has never made a song that wasn’t urgent.
For a band with such a strong distaste for the musical press, Radiohead seem to inevitably attract its spotlight.
Smooth, cool, mild and sweet, Underneath the Pine goes down like a strawberry smoothie and sticks with you about as long.
Does folk music still matter? This Friday in Reynolds Industries Theater, Jim White and the South Memphis String Band will answer that question with an emphatic “yes.”