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How DJ Shadow Helped Man Mantis Embrace Instrumental Hip-Hopnew

What sets instrumental hip-hop apart from just beats?

Isthmus | Ben Munson | 12-05-2012 | Music

Larry Coryell gets haughty about his skills ... and rightly so.new

Some players willfully flout convention, bounding from one genre to the next. Guitarist Larry Coryell didn’t set out to play garage, psych, jazz and fusion. He’s just kept good company over almost fifty years in music.

Chicago Newcity | Dave Cantor | 12-04-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Larry Coryell

New Orleans Music Lawsnew

A new coalition of musicians, club owners and lawyers are working with the city to keep live music going in New Orleans.

Gambit | Alex Woodward | 11-28-2012 | Music

Tags: Kermit Ruffins, live music New Orleans

Racist Video Mars No Doubt's Return to Relevancenew

No Doubt released the video for "Looking Hot" off their comeback album, the band's first in more than a decade. Backlash was swift, with people rightly pointing out that it's racist and offensive to Native Americans.

Weekly Alibi | Marisa Demarco | 11-16-2012 | Music

The Return of the Cassette Tapenew

A new generation of music fans, artists and collectors revive the cassette tape.

Hartford Advocate | Michael Hamad | 11-13-2012 | Music

Tags: Cassette Tapes

The Wayne Drury Project: Save the Musicnew

The Wayne Drury Project is a modern-day folk song revival. Twenty musicians from around the country (and one from London) joined together in Eugene, Ore., to save the music of Wayne Drury, the musician who brought alt-country music to the Willamette Valley.

Eugene Weekly | Alexandra Notman | 11-09-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Sonic Attacknew

After 27 years and 10 albums, Neurosis continues to make music from the depths of its soul.

The Inlander | Leah Sottile | 10-26-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

20 Greatest Non-Hits by the Rolling Stonesnew

Everyone knows that the Rolling Stones are a bunch of greedy amoral bastards. (Pick your anecdote from rock lore to illustrate this fact.) The geezers keep flogging their fame into the 21st century, long past sell-by date of their flesh and musical inspiration. Do they need to tour and release more memoirs to make more millions? It hardly seems like it, yet they've been doing it for 50 years now, and they probably don't know what else to do with themselves.

New Haven Advocate | John Adamian | 10-11-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Classic Rock, The Rolling Stones

Monkish Moans and Skittering Guitarnew

Inside Chicago's Mako Sica's international stew of rock, jazz and noise.

Chicago Newcity | Dave Cantor | 10-11-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

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Ugly Ducklingnew

1980s punk act sketches the sweet chiaroscuro between light and dark.

Orlando Weekly | Chris Parker | 10-10-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Swans

Bass Controlnew

Esperanza Spalding raps about her groundbreaking Grammy Award, discovering the bass and cultivating creativity.

Monterey County Weekly | Adam Joseph | 09-25-2012 | Music

Tags: performance, Esperanza Spalding

Bob Dylan: Still rolling, still blowingnew

Once again Bob Dylan, now 71, is on the cover of magazines. His new disc, Tempest, is near the top of the charts. And yet to many, too many, especially to those under 40, Dylan is worse than an enigma or a mystery, he is a story where the plot is too far advanced to join in.

Planet Jackson Hole | Richard Abowitz | 09-21-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: American Music, art, Bob Dylan