Earlier this month, Raj Haldar – the MC and producer behind buzzing Philadelphia hip-hop act Lushlife – stopped by our studio and recorded an impressive performance for The Key Studio Sessions. The entire set will be released next month, but today we’re

Leader of the influential band The Pop Group, Mark Stewart is making his return with new album The Politics Of Envy on 26 March, boasting a host of collaborations including cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, punk pioneer Richard Hell, Factory Floor, Lee 'Scra

The Wrecking Crew was not supposed to attract attention. Groups like the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Monkees and many others didn’t care to point out why they sounded so much better on records than on the road. But Wrecking Crew members could work miracle

M ardi Gras morning in New Orleans smells like barbecue chicken. The aroma wafts from the kettle-drum grills set up along St. Charles Avenue in the lower Garden District by spectators who've risen early to lay claim to a good spot for watching the Mardi

Even by the loosest of downtown New York standards, Claire Boucher looks pretty out-there standing atop the Standard East Village hotel late on a Friday afternoon in January. The 23-year-old electro-pop singer/producer who goes by Grimes flew down from M

Dynamic and dazzling, Darlene Love could have blown out the glass walls of McLoones Supper Club when she performed at the Asbury Park venue on Feb. 10. At 70, Love is still convincing when singing of young romance. She performed many of her hits from the

White Birds release their debut full length, When Women Played Drums today. Born out of the ashes of Drink Up Buttercup, White Birds are James Harvey, Farzad Houshiarnejad, Mike Cammarata and Chris Radwanski. Where the music of Drink Up was quirky psyche

When someone is wrongfully killed, either intentionally or unintentionally, by the actions of another person, their family often goes through significant emotional and financial hardship. The loss of a family member can be hard enough, but if they are de

Canadian songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen in 2012. Check out our Spotify playlist of the Leonard Cohen songs discussed in this essay. Leonard Cohen has a new album out: Old Ideas, his 12th, and his first in seven years. He's 77 now, and if you know Cohe

Counterbalance is a concept by which we measure the most Acclaimed Music of all time. This week, number 68 -- the first time an ex-Beatle makes the Great List. Klinger: I’ve generally considered to be an album that is more respected than liked. It has a

1975 - Record producer Phil Spector was injured in a car accident. Not much was known about what happened, except that it occurred somewhere between Los Angeles and Phoenix and that Spector was injured.. 1986 - John Lennon's Live In New York City album w

Ex-Creed bellower Scott Stapp marries the former Miss New York 2004, Jaclyn Nesheiwat, in Miami. But the happy day is spoiled when Stapp is arrested on suspicion of being drunk in a public place while trying to get on a plane to Hawaii. Scott Stapp Creed

It's somehow both cutesy and creepy -- kind of like Siouxsie and the Banshees might have sounded if they'd been produced by Phil Spector in 1964. Lucky for all of us, they are performing tomorrow night, February 11, at Radio in Somerville, so you’ll be a

"I've played Tulsa a million times," he said. And it never gets old. "I have a lot of friends here. I just love it. Some friends of mine were in the (Tulsa Sound/Red Dirt) band The Tractors, Casey van Beek. Man, we used to work the Brady all the time." P

Perhaps you are aware of the fact that there is an oddly popular trivia game floating around that a group of clever (and likely bored) college students invented back in the early 1990s called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Maybe you have even played it. Tak

And so the legend of the once invincible "hedge fund titan" Phil Falcone, often the target of mockery and ridicule on the pages of Zero Hedge, ends, after his now irrelevant hedge fund which peaked in the tens of billions back in 2006/2007 is forced to b

“Laughing” Len. Music to cut your wrists to. The suicide songbook. Many are the misconceptions that have been put against the music of Leonard Cohen over the years, keeping him as a strange kind of musical curio since he first emerged as a writer who cou

Charlize Theron has admitted that she has no idea how long she will remain an actress.According to Los Angeles Confidential magazine, the 36-year-old actress also revealed that it is the uncertainty of her profession that makes it all the more interestin

Producer Phil Spector has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of murder victim Lana Clarkson, according to multiple sources. Spector is serving time for the criminal charge of killing Clarkson back in 2003. Spector has reached an agreeme