Gender, race, class and identity are all topics found on The Knife‘s fourth album, Shaking the Habitual - their first project together in six years. It’s a highly political venture that embodies everything from queer theory [...]
When a super group like Atoms for Peace (Thom Yorke, Flea, Nigel Godrich, Mauro Refosco and Joey Waronker) forms it’s a concern as to whether or not there will be an equal exchange of ideas or if [...]
For his third album, 18 Months, producer/DJ/singer Calvin Harris made a concerted effort to step away from the vocal booth in order to focus primarily on production. He makes a few cameos here and there, [...]
According to a range of eschatological theories, the world is going to end on December 21, 2012. And while I personally do not tune into said beliefs, I still recognize life could end at any given moment [...]
Firing out quickly from the camp of the fiery Barbadian beauty, “Where Have You Been” is the fifth single release from Rihanna‘s Talk That Talk record, and in true Rihanna style, it’s coming in hot. Back [...]
Did you get excited that one day when global warming didn’t seem like such a bad thing? Did you spend all day outside and overdose on sunshine? Or maybe ignore all your work and drink [...]
Here’s the deal: “Girl Gone Wild” isn’t worse than “Give Me All Your Luvin’“. It’s not drastically better, though. Madonna’s haters can clink their glasses yet again in honor of another mild effort from Madonna’s [...]
Sweden has a long history of fructifying the top of the pop crop. Beginning with the dancefloor vintage of ABBA and Roxette, the Nordic country has since gone on to produce some of the greatest pop artists to [...]
2011 was a strong year for music, a year which simultaneously lavished us on exciting new musicians, while hailing the almighty return of more established artists (in case you haven’t already, you can check out [...]
Where you may have heard them: their 2007 album, Night Drive, was a huge critical success. More recently though, their instrumental song “Tick of the Clock” (from the same album) was featured in the movie, [...]
