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Beck Goes Through the Pop Prism on New Album 'Colors'

PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2017

Beck and Pharrell Williams had never worked together until, as Beck now recalls, "four or five years ago," around the same time that he'd b...

​LCD Soundsystem

Finding My Religion

PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2017

James Murphy is happy.   Seated on a large, comfortable couch in a Brooklyn hotel room, the LCD Soundsystem frontman is open, talkative and...

​Big Boi

The Time Lord

PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2017

The scene is New York, the 1995 Source Awards; the crowd is booing, local artists are upset and the coastal beef between East (New York) an...

​Feist

Pleasure Principle

PUBLISHED May 24, 2017

Look at what the light did now: The evening spring skies were a fiery yellow and orange on Bloor Street in Toronto. After a torrential down...

​Mac DeMarco's Wild Ride

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2017

The music of Mac DeMarco is pretty well known in many parts of the world, but perhaps even bigger than that is the legend of Mac DeMarco. T...

​Father John Misty

Are We Not Entertained?

PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2017

On July 22, 2016, when Father John Misty took the stage at XPN Festival in Camden, NJ, fans expected to see Joshua Tillman perform in his t...

Migos

Level Up

PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2017

"I'd like to thank the Migos — not for being on the show, but for making 'Bad and Boujee,'" Donald Glover said, as he accepted his Golden G...

​Chance the Rapper

Outside the Lines

PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2016

Chance the Rapper doesn't care for rules. In fact, defiance has been a recurring theme in his short but burgeoning career. His first mixtap...