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George Lewis Jr. isn't exactly your typical '80s revivalist. Granted, his self-produced 2012 breakthrough, Confess, definitely has that... More >>
Nachito Herrera has taken an eventful route from Cuba to Minneapolis -- a child prodigy at 12 performing Rachmaninoff with the Cuban Symphony... More >>
The four acts assembled for the Kings of the Mic tour are golden-age hip-hop star power, and a cross-section of everything rap had begun to... More >>
"Retro" is a tricky niche to slot a dance night into. Usually you've got to find yourself an era and a genre, hew towards the hits, and maybe... More >>
Make all the jokes you want about the climate differences between Kingston and Minneapolis, but the cultural ones aren't as hard to reconcile. The... More >>
In 1973, Todd Rundgren was the producer behind the meat-and-potatoes hard-rock gem that is Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band LP.... More >>
Chalk up Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's resilience to good timing if you want -- their debut album B.R.M.C. hit in the dead center of 2001's... More >>
If you run across one of those aging, bitter punk bros moping about how indie rock's all pudding-soft, go right ahead and mock him for not paying... More >>
Since autumn 2010, the Silver City Millers -- multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter Jeff Rolfzen and mandolinist/clogger Sarah Cagley -- have... More >>
It's hard to believe that we're almost 20 years removed from DJ Shadow's breakthrough MoWax single "Lost and Found (S.F.L.)." Not just because... More >>
At the same time dubstep started to get massive, James Blake cranked down the volume. His circa-2010 singles for the Hessle Audio and R&S labels... More >>
Chicago have pioneered a number of things since their first LP in 1969: commercially friendly jazz-rock, the quadruple-live LP, the Roman-numeral... More >>
With all due respect to Daft Punk -- who are technically humans dressed as robots anyways -- the best mostly-automaton band in existence is... More >>
Make all the jokes you want about the climate differences between Kingston and Minneapolis, but the cultural ones aren't as hard to reconcile. The... More >>
Nachito Herrera has taken an eventful route from Cuba to Minneapolis -- a child prodigy at 12 performing Rachmaninoff with the Cuban Symphony... More >>
Few bands have spent more time being blasted through the speakers of mid-American Skyhawks and Mavericks than these two. REO Speedwagon (pictured)... More >>
It's been 10 years since T.I.'s breakthrough Trap Muzik, one of the crucial records of the early-aughts Southern rap boom with a lyrical... More >>
Chris Tomlin is one of worship music's most popular artists, with a Best Contemporary Christian Music Album Grammy (for 2010's [i]And If Our God... More >>
Few acts in any genre have been as prolific and consistently popular over the last couple decades as the Gaither Vocal Band. Personnel changes... More >>
Bernie Worrell should be considered an immortal for playing keyboards for every single year of the Parliament-Funkadelic mothership's untouchable... More >>
These mainstays of classic rock radio haven't taken a break from the road in decades, even if their studio work's gotten sparse since the dawn of... More >>
Out of all the acts who got their chops in the '60s as ska transitioned to rocksteady and finally to reggae, Toots & the Maytals are easily one of... More >>
If 2012 had a single that summed up the feeling of cringing through an election-year parade of stomach-turning callousness and cultural ennui, it... More >>
The best way to describe the Brass Messengers is through a litany of basic facts -- they're a brass band, there's eleven of them, and you can see... More >>
Reggie Noble raps like he was born grimy. He set a gold standard for high-grade headknock from his first appearances, starting with his early... More >>
