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Jazz pianist Vijay Iyer brings Trio to Duke
By Andrew Walker | December 2, 2010Vijay Iyer is living proof that contemporary jazz isn’t static.
Vijay Iyer is living proof that contemporary jazz isn’t static.
For rap aficionados, Twitter enthusiasts and those with more than a passing interest in pop culture, Christmas came early this year.
It’s almost unfortunate that this new group hasn’t been rebranded: They suffer most from simultaneously trying to meet old expectations while finding their own sound as a new group
Despite her Ronald McDonald-style hair, Rihanna is anything but kid-friendly on her new album Loud
All Day, a genre-bending 70-minute aural collage, has no bounds in the variety of music that is sampled. One
Working against the monotonous tides of rap and hip-hop that have washed over the 2010 charts, soul singer Cee-Lo Green’s The Lady Killer—and its lead single “F**k You,” currently dominating clubs...
Kid Cudi’s much-anticipated second album casts him as a vulnerable loner, struggling with newfound fame and his own persistent neuroses.
A trained singer and ballet dancer, the most dynamic character in Billy Elliot the Musical is just under five feet tall—and that’s with the tap shoes.
Music festivals should be completely walkable.
Matt and Kim give us the kind of music that we can’t help but love—the super-happy, hand-clapping, impromptu-dance-party kind
This Halloween weekend at Moogfest 2010, more than 60 of the biggest acts in the genre will pay homage to the man who made it all possible—Robert Moog.
When there is a torrential downpour, most people like to stay indoors. Not Taylor Swift. In her new album Speak Now, Swift welcomes the bad weather, daring us to meet her “in the pouring rain.”
Carrboro is not bright lights. Which is why Ben Carr and Geoff Schilling of Last Year’s Men, sitting on a picnic bench in the glow of a single streetlamp, look so fitting: one of the town’s most...
Fans expecting another glossy album like Only by the Night may be turned off by the unexpected attempts (albeit poor ones) to revitalize this earlier sound.
Seeing as Lil Wayne released I Am Not a Human Being while still in prison, you can almost forgive him for it. Almost.
Sufjan Stevens’ The Age of Adz recalls the debut of Radiohead’s Kid A exactly a decade ago—it is that much of a dramatic stylistic shift and is equally broad in scope as the seminal 2000 release.
What makes this indie band so flawlessly satisfying is their daring consistency over the years, churning out silky smooth sixties pop melodies that are soaked with signature soft vocals.
To listen to Waka Flocka Flame’s debut album is to experience a new genre of music: guncore.
Senior Edie Wellman knows what it means to live life on the edge—or over it, in this case.
For a while, it appeared that KT Tunstall was going to be yet another busker with a record deal (albeit a highly talented one).