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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...