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While Banks is by no means the first to produce vocally-driven pop music with electronic backing, she successfully manages to make her music unique. In her London EP, Banks delivers lyrics about the cognitive dissonance brought by feelings of love through a...

Little was known about British singer FKA twigs (formerly known as just twigs) when she released her debut EP, EP, last December. And nearly a year later with a second EP out since September, she’s still a mysterious, press-shy artist. Signed to London label, Young...

When you hear about the history of rock music in the transition from the 80s into the 90s, it‰'s almost impossible to avoid someone saying how Nirvana was the final nail in the casket of glam and hair metal. If Nirvana‰'s success finally buried that horrid trend of...

Music is constantly undergoing change. Rather than growing linearly, musical trends and styles are influenced by the events and news of the time period. Herbie Hancock, a famous jazz pianist and composer, undoubtedly demonstrates the relationship between music and...

By now, you‰'ve probably heard about the new video from the creators of the ear-splittingly autotuned “Friday,‰” “Chinese Food.‰” In it, a tweenage girl sings vaguely racist assumptions about cultures that aren‰'t her own and about how hungry she is after a late night...

Ask any fan of music from the Midwest and they‰'ve probably spent a fair amount of their life worshipping the Kinsella brothers. Through each chapter of a new band, the two brothers essentially wrote the book on emo. Although an unfortunate fact, I must stop here to...

In about two weeks, Nocturnal,åÊthe highly anticipatedåÊsophomore album fromåÊKuala Lumpur native, Yuna, will be released following her acclaimed 2012 self-titled debut album. Earlier this spring, she had also released an EP,åÊSixth Street, only garnering more...

After the recent censorship of Rihanna‰'s video for “Pour It Up” the rampant censorship of the music video industry is a hot topic. Within ten minutes of being on popular YouTube channel Vevo, the video was censored for featuring female nudity. The video uses...

Mount Kimbie is a London-based electronic duo comprised of Kai Campos and Dom Maker. They debuted their first full-length album, Crooks and Lovers, in July 2010. The album was revered by NME, Pitchfork, Drowned in Sound and BBC Music. This past May, the two released...

Since Dominican-Brazilian singer, Jarina De Marco, debuted last spring on Wyclef Jean‰'s mixtape, April Showers, intrigue has grown considerably over her bright, hypnotic style. Born in the Dominican Republic, De Marco was raised in a musical family; her mother is the...