After smashing all competitors in the English pop world, ridiculously over-the-top Lebanese-American, England-reared pop god Mika has deemed it necessary to unleash his dominance on America. Just...
The band self-described as having "the hardest name to search in Google," !!!, has created another dance-punk gem with Myth Takes, its third release. After taking the indie dance scene by storm...
Usually a trip for Indian food results in a samosa or a curry, but juniors Sonny Byrd and Greg Laird brought home something much more-the seeds of Stella by Starlight. "We were talking about music...
Beneath the Loop, in a small room in the West Union Building jammed with rolls of Freewater films, instruction manuals, musical equipment and psychedelic banners, Duke's first record label has...
Damon Albarn's career has taken him through Blur and Gorillaz, but that clearly wasn't enough to satisfy his eclectic tastes and seemingly endless ambition. His latest creation, The Good, the Bad &...
Bill Bryson's first release since his widely-acclaimed popular science book A Short History of Nearly Everything takes the reader back to the days when all seemed right in America: the 1950s. In...
Snoop lets us know early on in Tha Blue Carpet Treatment that this record is "deep" to him. There are no dancefloor candy collaborations with Justin Timberlake here (though we do have Jamie Foxx,...
J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton have long had a symbiotic relationship. Clapton has achieved some of his biggest solo hits-"After Midnight" and "Cocaine," for example-from Cale's songbook, who in turn...
It's been 24 years since their last effort and only half the band is alive, but The Who have returned with a new album, Endless Wire. They've managed to replicate the feel of their classic era:...
Sparta's third attempt at overcoming the shadow of the Mars Volta, Threes, finds them trapped in mediocrity once again. Unlike the other half of At the Drive-In, however, their problem isn't an...
