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Five Notable Releases of the Week (2/26/16)
Another week, another batch of records to grace our ears. The 1975 aren’t on this list (and they wouldn’t have been regardless), but you can head HERE if you want to read my thoughts on their record…
Five Notable Releases of the Week (2/19/16)
It’s been a crazy week for new music, overshadowed immensely by the new Kanye West album, which, as you may have guessed from the picture above, does of course appear here…
Five Notable Releases of the Week (2/12/16)
This is the second week of this new “Five Notable Releases of the Week” feature. If you missed the (mostly self-explanatory) introduction of what this thing is all about, revisit week one…
Beach Boys Albums Ranked Worst to Best
The Beach Boys are unquestionably one of America’s biggest legacy bands, but music nerds of a certain variety know they’re also way more than t…
Five Notable Releases of the Week (2/5/16)
This is the first installment of the new “Five Notable Releases of the Week” feature, where, as the title implies, I’ll be picking five releases that come out each week that I think are worth hearing…
15 essential Paul Kantner songs (from Jefferson Airplane & more)
Last night the rock world suffered yet another tragic loss, the death of Paul Kantner, co-founder, guitarist, singer and songwriter of psychedelic rock pioneers Jefferson Ai…
Panorama festival happening, now in July at Randall's Island
Panorama — the East Coast music festival from Coachella producers Goldenvoice — is happening, now set for July 22 – 24 at Randall’s Island, as Billboard reports…
Remembering David Bowie (now and forever)
It’s a truly sad day for music, one where we’re forced to say goodbye to the great David Bowie. It’s hard to think of what anyone can say that someone like Paul McCartney or Brian Eno hasn’t said bet…
Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, Devo & more pay tribute to David Bowie
Also: Talking Heads, Yoko Ono, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Courtney Love & more
We already posted Tony Visconti, Iggy Pop, Florence + the Machine, The Mountain Goats, Questlove and Cyndi Lauper’s tributes to the late, great David Bowie, and other artists have written tributes as w…
BV Presents: Oddisee, Tunji Ige & Oshun at Baby's All Right ($3 with RSVP)
We’ve been talking a lot about how 2015 was the best year for major label rap in a while, but that’s not to say the indie-label stuff was slacking…