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This fierce, haunting debut album has an inner life: autobiography as tension, rock as release. Inspired by months of playing and living together in an old Victorian house in Newark, New Jersey, pete’s inherent power and emotional honesty is immediately striking. Guitars crash with jackboot force against bottom-heavy bass and smashing drums, while the lyrics…

Watching Gilles Peterson at his weekly London club residency This! (formerly That’s How It Is) at London’s Bar Rumba nightspot, you’d be forgiven for thinking he’s just another guy rather than a star DJ parading his home turf. High fives and street talk are not on the agenda. Neither are flash clothes. This unpretentious disposition…

Upon the release of their first album in the late ’70s, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were shoehorned into the punk/new wave movement by some observers, who picked up on the tough, vibrant energy of the group’s blend of Byrds riffs and Stonesy swagger. In a way, the categorization made sense. Compared to the heavy…

Liz Phair’s self-titled new album of 14 brutally candid and clever confessionals. While just as frank as her previous work, the songs resonate with a new and earned maturity, not just in the brilliant and fearless lyrics, but also in the music. Indeed, these are the most brave-yet most insanely catchy-songs of Phair’s undoubtedly brave…

PHANTOM PLANET IS GOING TO BE HUGE.…. …If they keep eating the way they do. During the recording of their Epic Record’s debut THE GUEST, the band consumed an average of 20 pounds of food per day. In total, that adds up to a whopping 840 pounds of hamburgers, pizza, pasta, sushi, tacos, hot dogs,…

Pharrell Williams has already made history for being one of the most successful and prolific producers to emerge during the last decade. As part of the beat-making duo The Neptunes, Pharrell and his partner Chad Hugo have helped A-List pop stars sell millions of albums and even earn Grammy Awards for the likes of Justin…

THE EMERGENCE… Since his suspicious emergence with hip hop legends A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, PHIFE DAWG influenced a generation of inspiring emcees with his succinct metaphor infused rhymes. As a member of A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, PHIFE DAWG achieved what few MCs could ever dream of by gathering three platinum and two gold records, playing…

Don Philip was born 23 years ago in Miami, Florida. He discovered his love of singing while attending church with his mother. Consequently, Don’s vocal style quickly echoed the gospel stylings of his favorite classic artists such as Hezekiah Walker and Shirley Caesar. The first song Don ever learned on his own was “Hey Baby,…

“You know when you’re younger and in math class and you feel unbelievably tired like you had no sleep the night before, and then the second you leave math class you suddenly have this renewed energy, and you’re so ready to go out and play?” says singer-songwriter Bijou Phillips. “Well when it comes to music,…

“First thought, best thought,” was poet Allen Ginsberg’s counsel to would-be writers. Fellow beat-generation author Jack Kerouac termed his own jazz-inspired writing “spontaneous bop prosody” and rhapsodized about tapping into an “undistributed flow of the mind.” In their own way, Phish have broken major new ground on the musical front with this approach on The…