If the 80s and 90s saw music fragmenting into hundreds of tiny subcultures the 00s offered a way out – in part by destroying the very music industry machinery that encouraged such fragmentation. File sharing may have killed music but it also saved it by letting people hear thousands of songs they never would have [...]
So the 00′s come to an end with a whimper, not a bang. These 25 albums were all great but I’d be lying if I told you that there was another 25 I was anguished about leaving off the list. Even so Dylan, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Raekwon, Monsters of Folk, Talbot Tagora and M. [...]
Mr. Rhys, Mr. Bip, and a DeLorean Super Furry Animals frontman and Welsh wunderkind Gruff Rhys is collaborating with Los Angeles producer Boom Bip under the name Neon Neon. Their album, due out next month, is called Stainless Style and is apparently inspired by the life of auto impressario and would-be coke dealer John DeLorean. [...]
Radiohead: almost out of the woods… Rolling Stone claims to have cracked Radiohead’s code, and they didn’t need Robert Graysmith to do it. The venerable music pub has been peering at the cryptic messages on the band’s website and have suggested that the release date for their eagerly awaited seventh album will be March 10th [...]
50. Girls – Album Girls marvelous debut album is reminiscent of Pavement’s Slanted and Enchanted in how it transmutes standard indie sounds into something irresistibly their own through sheer talent and force of will. 49. Outkast – Stankonia Outkast spent much of the decade bidding to be the new Prince, or at least Andre 3000 [...]
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