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Pulling off a record that hinges on substantial doses of both intensity and airiness requires an especially deft hand.]]> By City Weekly Staff

In a conversation with blogger Aisu Kurimu before The Year of Hibernation hit in late 2011, Trevor Powers portrayed Youth Lagoon’s debut as an outlet for his lifelong anxieties.]]> By City Weekly Staff

In celebration of J Dilla’s birthday, Stone’s Throw Records released one of the more disheartening albums by hip-hop’s most pedestaled producer, Frank-N-Dank’s 48 Hour Instrumentals.]]> By Austen Diamond

“We the Common is an album about wanting to be a human who tries and is grateful for the opportunity. It is about wanting to be better and closer to people,” Thao Nguyen says.]]> By City Weekly Staff

For an ax-wielder whose live shows have a grip and intensity that have earned him comparisons to Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan ...]]> By City Weekly Staff

Lonesome Dreams transcends folk—it travels into metaphysical realms, the stuff of dreams. At times, it grabs the listener away from reality and into a trance—like listening to the rhythm and cadence of repeated Buddhist mantras.]]> By City Weekly Staff

As the great nephew of the late jazz pianist Alice Coltrane (wife of John Coltrane), critics have always expected a certain level of avante garde when it comes to anything from Steven Ellison, better known as Flying Lotus.]]> By Jordan Wallis

Sunset Beach is an accessible collection of ornate guitar anthems and the band’s familiar pop-rock. It’s appealing but not predictable.]]> By City Weekly Staff

In what is their most pointedly inspired release to date, Antibalas channel Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti to rousing and irresistibly groovy results.]]> By City Weekly Staff

To understand the sophomore record from former Bright Eyes touring member Laura Burhenn—the brains behind The Mynabirds—you first need to know the origin of the title]]> By City Weekly Staff

Twelve seconds. That’s how much time it takes for multi-instrumentalist Luke Wyland to join drummer Dana Valatka on album opener “Epic” ...]]> By City Weekly Staff

It’s strange that, in more than 15 years, New Orleans jazz-funk troupe Galactic is just now getting around to making a Mardi Gras, or Carnival, album.]]> By City Weekly Staff

Cate Le Bon is bringing a welcome breeze of ethereal vocals to our shore with her fresh, new album Cyrk.]]> By City Weekly Staff

The disparate styles of bluegrass and classical are blended with such skillful ease in The Goat Rodeo Sessions it’s a wonder why ...]]> By Kolbie Stonehocker

Thrice has never been a band that's afraid to blaze new paths with their musical style, fully knowing that not all fans would take to the new sound.]]> By City Weekly Staff

The solo career of Rob Crow, founder of Pinback—as well as a number of other non-trivial indie-music assemblages—has been similar to that of ...]]> By City Weekly Staff

Veering off from more familiar folk alleyways, Portland, Ore.-based Blitzen Trapper drives a sonic muscle car onto the rock music highway with their sixth studio album, American Goldwing.]]> By City Weekly Staff

You can count me among the Pavement fanatics who had a hard time getting into Stephen Malkmus’ past couple of albums made with his band The Jicks.]]> By City Weekly Staff

It would be easy to dismiss Mariachi El Bronx as a mere lark by the Los Angeles punk band’s more-prominent alter ego, The Bronx. ]]> By Dan Nailen

If you need any sort of reminder of how significant Buddy Holly was to the early days of rock & roll ...]]>