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So much of Prince's eponymous sophomore effort can be summarized by its hysterical cover. Where For You  functioned as primarily a disco...

Inspired by a series I came across at YAM Magazine , I've decided to complement my A Life in Movies post with a similar journey through...

Long-lost jazz recordings pique my interest as much as the tease of the most infamous lost films. The frequent airing of Miles Davis' va...

For those in the know, Tom Verlaine is the best alt.guitar soundsmith this side of Robert Quine, though those not in the know would be even ...

When he died Dec. 17 at the age of 69, Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, had not produced any music since 1982's Ice Cream for Cr...

Thoug h I didn't listen to nearly as many albums this year as I do normally, I still managed to find a number of impressive works by var...

Let me just be clear from the start: I love Kanye West. I love his production values, I love the ambition of his raps (even when he overreac...

The opening chords of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation lurch, dissipate and echo as if reaching through the murk of the '80s undergrou...

No songwriter better exemplifies that old maxim our mothers used to tell us, "It's not what you said but how you said it" lik...