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The People's Keys - Bright Eyes
By Kevin Lincoln | February 17, 2011Conor Oberst has fallen victim to expectations.
Conor Oberst has fallen victim to expectations.
London producer James Blake’s self-titled debut album has relegated everything else in my music library to second-class status for the past month, but for an album I’ve listened to 60 times it...
Perhaps all Will Weisenfeld needed was a new moniker.
Cut Copy’s dazzling sophomore LP, In Ghost Colours, performed an impressive tightrope act—capturing all the euphoria and all the irresistible kinetic energy of new-wave dance rock without any of...
Swag is a delicate thing. In hip-hop, rappers cultivate it with care and persistence, as though they were selling a product—shill enough, and somebody will buy in.
In the battle of Deerhoof vs. Evil, their 11th studio album, the art-rock quartet again challenges pop conventions with convincing results. Wrought with signature dark tones, layered guitars and...
Sam Beam moved to Warner Brothers in last October, which makes Kiss Each Other Clean his first major-label release. That’s traditionally been an important line of artistic demarcation for indie...
Talib Kweli, the Afro-centric lyrical mastermind who rose to prominence alongside Mos Def with 1998’s Black Star, isn’t a prolific rapper by any means. He releases a new album every few years,...
Tomorrow night in Reynolds Industries Theater, Duke Performances will host new music ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars and Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche as they push forward the relationship between...
Dan Bejar has done it again.
Smith Westerns were sort of interesting two years ago. Blogs were talking about them anyway, with unironic enthusiasm for a group of teenagers making some pretty good singles with “aw, shucks”...
With 2009’s The Hazards of Love, the Decemberists outdid themselves. The record was a mammoth achievement, a rock opera on par with Pink Floyd’s The Wall and the Who’s Tommy. With its epic scope...
Not every band can claim that they produced a decade-defining anthem that remains relevant 15 years later, but Cake’s 1996 hit “The Distance” seized the airwaves, inspiring spliced movie montages...
This year, Santa’s sack was full of mixtapes.
Recess highlights four albums from the year 2010 that were overlooked by mainstream America.
Perhaps it’s her larger-than-life personality that fans have grown to expect from the self-proclaimed Barbie.
Make no mistake: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a bid for immortality, and nothing less.
For nearly two decades, Will Oldham has produced his unique brand of folk music.
A new initiative will soon transform the whitewashed walls outside the Gothic Reading Room in Perkins Library into a canvas for collaborative student artistic expression.