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Courtesy of Popdose. Minutes before leaving for the airport to return to D.C., my mom - shoutout to Pam - wrote me a list of the music she grew up listening to. Of course, as a teenager in the 1970s, she loved Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, and Genesis, to name a few,...

Courtesy of Billboard.I wasn‰'t really looking forward to Katy Perry‰'s Super Bowl performance, assuming it would be cartoonish, poppy and possibly include Katy appropriating a cultural identity or two. However I ended up enjoying the show much more than I had...

Courtesy of The American Reader. You may or may not have been around a few Wednesdays ago when the American University chapter of the Young Americans for Liberty tabled in front of MGC to spread the word about their current project Incarceration Nation, with the...

  Courtesy of Rolling Stone.Until yesterday, I had never heard Willie Nelson's music. Today, I'm still not really sure if my life has changed in any way. I guess the question in and of itself means it hasn‰'t. For this week‰'s In The Bin, I went to Joe‰'s Record...

  Courtesy of Free Bike Valet.The man is Luis Dubuc, Mystery Skulls is his project and the end result is the best electronic pop music you‰'ll hear this year. Mystery Skulls released its first full album, Forever, late in 2014 under the Warner Bros. label. Packed...

Courtesy of Visit Baltimore. Baltimore seems to be the mid-Atlantic's best kept secret when discussing East Coast music scenes. The city's proximity to D.C. is both a blessing and a curse; while it's convenient for local bands to hop between music scenes,...

Courtesy of BuddyTV. Have you ever wanted a long, illustrious singing career spanning well over a decade? Do you want to fade out of Pop Culture‰'s consciousness only to reinvent yourself several years later? Luckily for you, I‰'ve created an easy-to-follow guide...

Courtesy of Miami New Times. Reggeaton has its roots in Latin America, mainly Panama, and the Caribbean as it infuses aspects of salsa, bomba, Jamaican dancehall and Trinidadian soca. What pushed its boundaries were the Puerto Rican artists who added vocals,...

   Courtesy of Absolutely Kosher. Okay is a collection of earworms that could only be creations of Marty Anderson‰'s questionably sane brain and tortured body. After turning minds inside out with Dilute‰'s cosmic blizzards that took spider web...

 Courtesy of Newbury Comics. I think we can all agree that we all have one song that is objectively quite awful. You either cannot stop listening to a new, unoriginal pop song or, in my case, one song that is clearly the worst song on an album but...

  “A pope is a fraud / A church is a lie / A queen is the same damn thing / You should pray to your fake god that she die‰Û Attention citizens, this is not your normal aggression. Or maybe it is, just fitted with new words twice as hyperbolic. Is this the kind...

   The Store: Up until last week I had never been to a record fair, so since this column is challenging me to explore different record purchasing options, I decided to attend this weekend‰'s fair at Penn Social. For the purposes of this challenge, and its...

Courtesy of Baltimore Arts. In a city that‰'s known for its distinctive, tough nature, it‰'s no wonder Philadelphia has such a rich history of punk music. It was in the late 1970s when punk and new wave music had begun to sweep through the city and take it...

Courtesy of Pop Dust. John Legend‰'s “All of Me‰” placed third in Billboard‰'s Hot 100 in 2014. “Stay with Me‰” by Sam Smith was number 10 and A Great Big World‰'s “Say Something‰” made it into the top 20. Although a huge number of Sad Pop didn‰'t make it...

Courtesy of La Reputada. I first heard  Julieta Venegas on the radio when her album, Si, had just come out in 2003. Following widespread success, the album won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album. It was rock enough to be in...

Courtesy of Pitchfork. Coming off an eight year hiatus, my favorite band, Modest Mouse, are officially putting out a new album. The new album, Strangers to Ourselves, will be released on March 3. So far, two singles have been released, “Lampshades on Fire‰” and...

Courtesy of NYT.This past Sunday the hip hop community was shocked by the death of one Steven Rodriguez, better known as A$AP Yams. Yams was one of the original cofounders of the Harlem-based A$AP Mob, a hip hop collective home to, most notably, rappers A$AP...

Courtesy of Giant Freakin Robot. Welcome back! It‰'s the spring semester, students are back at college and I‰'m mourning the loss of my free time, but now it's time for you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the return of Another Kind of Currency.  The song that...

Courtesy of Progsphere.Progressive rock band the Mars Volta occupy an almost unfillable niche for their fans. For some sweet few years the band‰'s driving forces, guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, created a stream of innovative albums....

Papa Kelly hangs out at Joe's Record Paradise - Silver Spring.In case you didn't hear, 2014 was a huge year for vinyl. Overall vinyl sales jumped 49%, Jack White sold zillions of copies of his hit record Lazaretto, and the continent's largest pressing plant can't even...

Courtesy of Redbubble. The story goes like this: some One Direction fan in some nether region of the Internet decided that they wanted to make bootleg t-shirts of other bands with 1D‰'s name on them. At first, it seemed that everyone was in on the joke: these...