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Daft PunkRandom Access MemoriesDaft Life/Columbia "Give life back to music."  This clear and measured statement opens Daft Punk's colossal new album.  For a group that has spent all of their career in masks and have...

Little Boots Nocturnes On Repeat   It’s been over 3 years since Little Boots released her debut LP but that hardly means she hasn’t been keeping busy.  Since 2009’s, Hands, she has released the EP Illuminations...

Photo courtesy Sadie Dupuis With a musical foundation lain by Pavement and Slint, Speedy Ortiz is heating up the New England corridor with its thick instrumentation and biting lyrics from Sadie Dupuis. We chatted...

Always looking forward, never looking back.  Here are a few of our most highly anticipated releases of next year.  Some of these have been confirmed, some are merely rumbles that leave us in anticipation.   Toro...

So here we are.  The end of yet another year of fantastic music.  Here are my personal favorite 30 records of the year listed with my favorite cut off of each.  Enjoy.   30.  Daughn Gibson- All...

G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer Def Jam/ GOOD First things first: Kanye West can pick beats. Considering he doesn't do much solo production himself anymore, the man still has an ear for what sounds good. From the plucking strings...

Photos by Sean Costello Remember that episode of "The Simpsons" when Springfield imposed a sundown curfew on minors and all the adults whooped it up with youthful reverie? The scene at Amplyfi in Los Angeles...

We were filming some pre-show footage of Gonjasufi before he headlined Low End Theory at The Airliner. The time came to take him to the venue. It was about 11PM on a lovely night and...