Musically, Life doesn’t stun as much as it shimmers. The arrangements are simple: steady acoustic guitar and piano occasionally paired with orchestration by Owen Pallett.
Brian Blade and his father come to Durham to perform, worship and celebrate the pastor's ministry, gospel, jazz and the history of it all.
The xx aren’t trying too hard, and that might be the most refreshing part of their eponymous debut.
Goodnight Unknown will not disappoint Barlow fans familiar with his particular style. It meets expectations as an improvement on Emoh but only perpetuates the routine instead of breaking from it.
Leaving behind contemporaries, such as Rhett Miller and the Old 97’s, the Avett Brothers have outdone themselves.
Taking the reins of a jazz band numbering over a dozen musicians is challenging enough. But Marshall Allen faced a unique obstacle after eventually replacing the deceased Sun Ra as director of his...
But if a concert—namely, Wale’s appearance Friday, Aug. 28—was produced in such a way that 75 percent of undergraduates had little chance of showing up, was it truly a Duke event?
Mark Anthony Neal interprets Michael Jackson's cultural legacy through Duke's latest digital initiative, Online Office Hours.
The Resistance is a fitting title for Muse’s fifth album. The fact that the U.K. group still makes records seems to resist the law of nature that bad bands eventually die out.
U.K. outfit Manic Street Preachers’ ninth album, Journal for Plague Lovers, retains their 1990s guitar rock sound all the way.
Being hip-hop’s global ambassador for more than a decade has changed Jay-Z's perspective, but more than that, it’s changed his lifestyle.
It began as a dorm room jam session at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 40 years ago, and in 2009, Arrogance still seems to have no end in sight.
The pioneer of Mafioso rap offers some sage advice to the aspiring gangster on “Black Mozart.” “You better get that money, no matter what you do.” Setting the lyric to the ominous theme score from...
In Prism witnesses yet another change in direction, almost altogether ignoring their last album while harnessing the psychedelic exploration of Exploded Drawing into an attentive, purposeful sound....
Formed in 1984, Yo La Tengo is the quintessential indie rock band, still on independent label Matador after 12 solid LPs. Still, the title of their newest album, Popular Songs, is a tongue-in-cheek...
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, henceforth the band you will know as impossible to find in the alphabetized album shelves, plays the Cat’s Cradle Sept. 15. recess writer Brian...
recess writer Brian Contratto talked to lead vocalist and guitarist Conrad Keeley, who also contributed original visual art to the tour, about moving to New York, the Austin scene and his art.
The pioneer of Mafioso rap offers some sage advice to the aspiring gangster on “Black Mozart.” “You better get that money, no matter what you do.”
Formed in 1984, Yo La Tengo is the quintessential indie rock band, still on independent label Matador after 12 solid LPs.
Best known as a college radio station staple over a decade ago, Polvo returns with its new album, In Prism—their first in 12 years—with hopes of revisiting the off-rock heyday of the 1990s.
