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On September 7th, 1999, a new life was brought into the world. Though only a newborn, it was filled with complexity, somber observation, cynicism, and underneath it all, a guarded sense of optimism. Two days la...

English singer-songwriter Lianne La Havas just released her self-titled album, and though her previous records were filled with soul and rock sensibility, this cohesive record which focuses on the cyclical na...

The six years of painful silence from indie-rock band Vampire Weekend came to its anticipated end with Father of the Bride (2019) serving as a generous comeback filled with brightness and electricity. With its...

To make it clear, I’ve gotten high less than 10 times, and during the handful of times I’ve had a bad trip, only music can calm me down and stop me from feeling like I’m sinking into myself. Electric Gues...

JPEGMAFIA relishes the stage. Swaggering around as if possessed, a mischievous grin peering out from under his Air Force cap, Peggy (as his fans affectionately call him) is in his element. “Stage presence”,...

Kanye West has always thought of himself as a prophet of sorts, a conduit destined to receive divine inspiration from God himself.  This belief, or dare I say delusion, that he has been chosen by the creator h...

Growing up, I would come downstairs after sleeping in on a Sunday to my mom making crêpes in the kitchen. Picture spring in Portland: rain, dread (because it’s still raining and it’s June, literally where ...

Kevin Morby’s latest album (his fifth since 2013), Oh My God (2019), presents a masterpiece “non-religious religious” concept album, that is epic in ambition as it digs for explanations of what it means ...

Five years after her debut solo album Crush Songs (2014), Karen O (former frontwoman of the iconic 2000s rock band, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) is back. And this time, she’s not alone.   On March 15, the ...

In a machine as unrelenting as the mainstream music industry, artists often feel as though their selves are drowned out or diluted by the creative army of writers and producers that accompany them in the studio...

Five years ago, when he was just starting to make a name for himself and his band HOMESHAKE, Montreal-based artist Peter Sagar was best known as Mac Demarco’s guitarist. While Homeshake’s original sound dre...

“What the hell is this?” I said to myself after excitedly opening Spotify to see a new Tyler the Creator EP. Hot off his critically-acclaimed release Flower Boy (2017), Tyler had fans eagerly waiting to see...

Mumford & Sons was the banjo band, and can be cited as one of the leading forces behind bringing the indie-folk movement to the mainstream. They continue to be one of the twenty-first century’s strangest ...

Kurt Vile has perfected his paradox in Bottle It In (2018). He sings whimsically about darkness. He stumbles over his words gracefully, looking for meaning. He articulates his thoughts with abstract precision. ...

Kanye West’s solo albums have lacked lyrically for me ever since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). The verses tend to be fraught with as many enjoyable one-liners as they do unfinished phrases and awk...