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Burial/Four Tet/Thom Yorke: "Ego"

The cardinal rule of collaboration is compromise, which explains why so few artists dabble in it during their artistic peaks....

Mar 31, 2011

Those who enjoy the National will agree that they craft excellent albums. “Mr. November,” “Apartment Story,” and “Bloodbuzz, Ohio” may...

Mar 31, 2011

Lo-fi has its limits, and on tUnE-yArDs’ first LP BiRd-BrAiNs (2009), innovative multi-instrumentalist Merrill Garbus sounded stifled by her own...

Mar 28, 2011

It’s an awkward thing, to realize you’re suddenly less psychotic than you were six months ago. Bryan Pyle was at...

Mar 28, 2011

Coming of age as I did in that dark era during which Blink-182 dominated the airwaves, inspiring even more idiot...

Mar 25, 2011

2009 was a banner year for Bibio. Within four months of pleasing longtime fans by fine-tuning his ambient-folk brand on...

Mar 25, 2011

Battles have made it nearly impossible not to compare and contrast their two incarnations—in fact, they seem to be all...

Mar 24, 2011

In his review of MF Based (2010) and Rain in England (2010), Clay called out Lil B’s worthless blank...

Mar 21, 2011

Announcing their hiatus in mid-2010, Baltimore quartet Ponytail elicited unexpected reconsiderations of the phrase “You’ll miss me when I’m gone.”...

Mar 18, 2011