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I can almost hear it now: The pianist's bop-inflected gambits feeding bouncy motifs to the saxophonist's fabulous flutters. These kind of duets have a way of highlighting aspects of an artist's personality that don't usually surface, and in such an intimate situation, the quandaries of design... More >>

Taylor Swift and her ensuing parade of debutante songbirds aren't the only dollar sign that narcotic Nashville is mainlining. There's another youth movement afoot in Hat City, and it's tailored to dudes who spit, punch, pray, and wear Brett Favre's Wranglers. Or at least that's the narrative... More >>

Locals PC Worship are a natural for the next Sacred Bones piece of hot vinyl, as their sound is definitely that gross basement mush-punk scruff-scrunge that's somewhere between Reatard and blackened chillwave; think Gary War or Zola Jesus (if you think about this stuff at all). Minneapolis's... More >>

After putting out three consecutive albums on three different majors, this mushmouthed roots-jam guy is self-releasing his new one, The RainWater LP, on which he is joined by A-list neo-soul keyboardist James Poyser and several members of Washington, D.C.'s fertile go-go scene. But don't... More >>

One of the more stunning configurations to come from the ever-burbling Brooklyn noise scene is the Hex Breaker Quintet, a quartet comprised of the trumpet duo Grasshopper and mystic synth-forgers Telecult Powers. An easy comparison is to the chopped-up jams of late '60s Miles Davis, but the... More >>