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The Roots- Undun After seeing the Roots live this summer and watching them perform mischievously on Jimmy Fallon‰'s show, I‰'d expect their new album to be a big showy, brassy affair. Instead, it‰'s scaled down, condensed, distilled. At 39 minutes it‰'s their shortest...

As I near my final weeks in Florence, Italy, the cradle of the Renaissance, studying art conservation and art history, I pause to write for you, dear DJ, a playlist that conveys for your some sense of my experiences in a foreign land. Though I could go on and on about...

The role of the independent record label in the 21st century is to curate and to catalog music, even through the great multitude of pressures and distractions of society. Their mission is to represent a group of bands that set themselves apart and share an interest in...

King Krule- King Krule EP This EP is awfully hard to pin down, for many reasons. First of all, blatant Brit Archy “King Krule‰” Marshall is only 17, but he has the voice of a 40-year old. Perhaps I’m biased, but it seems like he‰'s got a lot more on his mind...

English indie punk rock trio Johnny Foreigner played Islington venue Relentless Garage earlier this month to a mixed crowd with demographics ranging from Warped Tour teenagers to normal twenty-somethings to a significantly older couple who I‰'m pretty sure weren‰'t...

Right now the most popular section of AU‰'s student newspaper is Eagle Rants, a daily opinion column where anybody can anonymously post their thoughts on anything. On November 16, in between notes about being lonely in the dorms and arguments that communications...

When Ornette Coleman‰'s now classic The Shape of Jazz to Come was released on May 22nd, 1959, no one was quite sure how to react. At the time, bebop was the dominant form of jazz, reaching its second wave of popularity, and Miles Davis‰' Kind of Blue was to be...

Sometimes saying the word slut just feels so good. But, I used to try to stray away from this word because feminism is no longer solely focused on male-female relationships, but rather female-female relationships. We live in a world where girls are forced to be in...

Jet lag wasn‰'t an issue for Givers. The sunny indie-pop quintet made the journey from Lafayette, La. to London last week, playing Shoreditch hotspot XOYO with all the energy of kids just let out on the last day of school. The night opened with the underwhelming coed...

I turned 20 this summer and as I‰'ve mourned the loss of my teenage years, I‰'ve also been reminiscing about the music that defined them. I can name exactly what I was listening to during every stage of my life. Every graduation, birthday, heartbreak, fight, and...