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1. Pop Music’s New Independent Force: Inside the Studio with Tina Win

   Gearing up for the release of her next hit single ‘How To Be Cool’, a dance-pop track reminiscent of the female empowered sound of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance era, it’s clear Tina Win is done waiting for permission. The 27 year old Romanian-American singer-songwriter is ready to roll out the tracks this year, and she’s […]

2. Every Outkast Album, Ranked

   André Lauren Benjamin and Antwan André Patton, better known to the world as André 3000 and Big Boi, were both born in Atlanta in 1975. After meeting at Lenox Square mall as teenagers, the two aspiring rappers started a group, first known as 2 Shades Deep. Taken under the wing of the Organized Noize production […]

3. Don’t Mess with Texan August Ponthier

   The truth was out there for August Ponthier. It just took leaving Texas to find it. Growing up queer in the conservative Deep South, the singer-songwriter often felt like an alien in their own hometown. That explains the apprehensive green Martian being led by the hand into a honky tonk on the cover of Ponthier’s […]

4. Metallica Moving Into Las Vegas’ Sphere

   Metallica has finally confirmed it will perform at Las Vegas' Sphere.

5. Rock Hall Nominees: Wu-Tang, INXS, Lauryn Hill

   Nominees are voted on by a panel of 1,200 artists and industry professionals.

6. American Football Go From Boys To Men On ‘Bad Moons’

   'LP4' will be available May 1 on Polyvinyl.

7. Shane Parish Unplugs Autechre 

   “Beats per minute” is not a concept that fingerstyle guitarists usually have to worry about. The world of instrumental solo acoustic guitar, rooted in the blues, modernized by John Fahey in the 1960s and carried on by practitioners such as Yasmin Williams, William Tyler and Glenn Jones, tends to move to pastoral and/or private rhythms. […]

8. James Hood is Going Supernova

   James Hood is a secret rock star. He’s not a household name, but he looks the part and walks the walk—thankfully without talking the talk. When I interviewed him in 2002 for his Moodswings project, the British-born, Grammy-nominated Hood was renting Elton John’s house above Sunset Boulevard. The place was lush, as expected. Today, the […]

9. BEN LAMM MIGHT JUST SAVE THE WORLD

   Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired Dallas-based entrepreneur seems more like the brainiac in the back of class who loans everyone his calculus notes than a slick, high-powered biotech revolutionary. But don’t be fooled. The 43-year-old Texas billionaire is something […]

10. Tom Morello Joining Springsteen, E Street Band On Tour

    Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello will once again perform as part of the E Street Band when...