For the newbie, Waxahatchee is the musical pseudonym of Birmingham, Alabama native Katie Crutchfield, who decided to rename herself after a creek situated near where
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Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde (Columbia)It is very hard to pick one favorite album, but if I stop and really think about it, this is the one I still play whenever
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It was only a year and a half ago that New York singer/songwriter Hailey Knox was embarking on the headline tour for her?Hardwired Mixtape and releasing the accompan
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The show that sticks out to me the most was when I saw Gavin James play at the High Watt in Nashville, Tennessee (no, I'm not partial to him because of his last name
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The fortieth?LA Weekly playlist, reviewing the musicians that we've been writing about all week, is live now. There's hip-hop from Nipsey Hussle and Kendrick Lamar,
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Dig through the website copy and promotional blurbs, and the mission of the 1500 Sound Academy is pretty simply: the more you know about the music industry, the bett
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Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo put out the aptly named?Quarantine Casanova EP last year, which included the equally appropriate Clorox Wipe single. According to a
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Berkeley DJ and producer KSHMR releases his debut full length album, Harmonica Andromeda, this year, though he's been active since 2006. He has released a bunch o
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English DJ and producer Flux Pavilion, aka Joshua Steele, is celebrating the release of his latest album?.wav with a livestream on Friday (or Saturday for UK, Europe
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Mana Contractor (a jazz and hindustani vocalist) and producer McLean Macionis have joined forces to form a new electronic music duo called NMND (a boiled down versio
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It's been a relatively quiet couple of years for Indiana jam band Umphrey's Mcgee, having celebrated the release of the 2004?Anchor Drops album with a rerelease a co
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Elliott SmithFigure 8 (DreamWorks)I remember the first time that I heard Elliott Smith. One of my first childhood girlfriends had burned me a couple cds and one of t
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