Year In Review

Orderly Chaos

2001 Year in Review

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

1. Fennesz Endless Summer (Mego)I. Khider: Fennesz has instilled a pop sensibility to electronic music; in that respect, one could compare...

Year End Lists

The Year That Was 2000

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Cam LindsayAlbum: Primal Scream Xtrmntr (Creation/Epic)Creation Records' last album ever, and the best one since Screamadelica. Xtrmntr sh...

Hip-Hop 2012: Inside Lamar's Black Hippy Crew

PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2012

Flipping the Wu-Tang Clan's model for success, the four-headed beast that is South Central L.A.'s Black Hippy wants to establish each of it...

Hip-Hop 2012: New Era Hip-Hop

PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2012

Overall, 2012 was good to hip-hop: the artists that had the greatest successes proved that the genre has matured beyond a binary old school...

Pop and Rock 2012: It's Getting Loud

PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2012

Separated by musical backgrounds and international borders, a phalanx of young bucks were united in 2012 by a common purpose: the hard and...

Pop and Rock 2012: Breakout Label - Arbutus

PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2012

One of 2012's undeniable breakout stars was Montreal's Grimes (pictured above) and her Polaris-nominated album, Visions. The label behind h...

Pop and Rock 2012: Every Bedroom's A Stage

PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2012

Once upon a time, there was no internet, and as a result no blogs, no YouTube, no Tumblr. Not even MP3s! Musicians had to leave their homes...

Groove 2012: What Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange' Taught Us

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2012

Owner of perhaps this year's most unique backstory, R&B artist Frank Ocean's ascendance into the mainstream was a perfect storm of promotio...