Canada is on a roll. "South Park" cracks are down, hockey attendance is up and their dollar is making ours the new peso.
Erykah Badu has never been one to conform to R&B's norms musically, stylistically or otherwise. It's only appropriate that on her first studio album in three years, "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)," she manages to find cohesion amidst myriad sounds and influences.
When a band decides to release a DVD of its live act, it usually has something to offer for the viewer at home.
Short, Sapphic songstress Kaki King has entered uncharted territory with her fourth full-length album, "Dreaming of Revenge."
Being single sucks. Just ask Stephen Malkmus.
It's hard to take Austin, Texas, duo Ghostland Observatory seriously.
How far would you go to see one of your favorite groups from the '90s reunited in concert? For me, the answer was New Jersey.
After all the impotent posturing in modern rock music, hearing a band for once back its chic style with actual substance comes as quite a turn-on. When a group looks as cool as The Raveonettes, an equally impressive sound equates to a sinfully good album.
What's in a name? For Gainesville band Oh Fortuna, everything.
Avenue Contributing Writer
Whether you like it or not, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is the most popular album of all time.
The English foursome British Sea Power's third release "Do You Like Rock Music?" opens with the ominous mantra, "we're all in it."
In indie rock, there's a time-tested tradition of tacking tongue-in-cheek titles onto unassuming works.
So this is what Ivy League indie rock sounds like? And it's not mired by snobbishness and elitism?
In 1840, presidential candidate William Henry Harrison blew up the charts with the still-bangin' political anthem "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." A twelve verse-long indictment of his opponent Martin Van Buren, the song probably had all of the novel appeal a Crazy Frog jam would generate today.
It is truly one of popular music's finest examples of irony that a duo so notoriously prone to hyperactivity produces music only for those with the most enduring attention spans.
Avenue: What is your number one song of 2007?
Usually, when a highly regarded artist like Cat Power releases an album of covers, any reasonable analysis will load up on derisive quips and cheeky one-liners referencing bar bands, karaoke or Axl Rose impersonators.
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