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Jeff and Tim Buckley Live!

By Calum Marsh

Despite what its title suggests, Daniel Algrant's new drama, Greetings from Tim Buckley, concerns itself less with salutations than pointed farewells, the singer-songwriter not so much present as... More >>
Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge Produce an Album That's a Movie

By J. Pablo

Rappers get to tell more detailed stories. They have a higher wordcount. They can fit War & Peace into 16 bars where other genres only have room for a fairy tale. And no rap artist takes more... More >>
The Sad Tale of Beast Coast Architect and Pro Era Emcee Capital STEEZ

By Phillip Mlynar

Jamal Dewar tweeted the words "The end" on Dec. 23, 2012. The next day he took his own life. He was 19. The news of his passing spread rapidly when his friend Jovaughn Scott tweeted his... More >>
The Making of Mykki Blanco

By Jenna Sauers

"Who fucks up two full rides?" Michael Quattlebaum Jr. is sitting in the kitchen of his manager's apartment in Williamsburg one cold Sunday morning, drinking a beet juice and wearing sweats. The... More >>
King Kurt (Vile)

By Brian McManus

About 100 kids line a tiny alley in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, clapping and waving on cue. In the middle of them all, a rail-thin hesher with shoulder-length hair. He's wearing a... More >>
Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield Is No Longer Languishing in Grief

By Elliott Sharp

Katie Crutchfield, the 24-year-old Alabama–born, Philadelphia–based musician who's the creative force behind Waxahatchee, ditches our first interview. She apologizes for the... More >>
Billy Gibbons's Moving Sidewalks Are Back in a Flash

By Brett Koshkin

Forty-three years after forming ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons is trying to unlearn almost everything he knows about music. Everything except the psychedelic foundation he laid with his former group, the... More >>
Spring Arts Guide: The Once and Future Ratking

By Jackson Connor

Patrick "Wiki" Morales, frontman of the Harlem hip-hop group Ratking, is dressed in a baggy T-shirt and jeans, sitting at the Pakistan Tea House in Tribeca. He's with his bandmates, producer Eric... More >>
Spring Arts Guide: Wadada Leo Smith Brings His Epic Ten Freedom Summers to Brooklyn

By Seth Colter Walls

It's not unusual for a working musician to think that critics ought to be ignored. But in the annals of icy press relations, the fearlessly independent composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith... More >>
Spring Arts Guide Picks: Music

Edited By Seth Colter Walls

DJ Spinn & DJ Rashad, Afrika Bambaataa May 23 The Red Bull Music Academy, a series of concerts, club nights, talks, and films, runs from April 28 to May 31 all over town, and it means business.... More >>