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Cloakroom know their product

How the band used the pandemic to make their most refined record yet.

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10 Essential Richmond Albums

The best exports from along the James River

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U2’s How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb: A shrug that sold 9 million copies

U2’s 11th album is a fine enough set of songs, which for a band of their magnitude didn’t feel like enough.

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A Beginner’s Guide to the colossal metal of Boris

Five essential steps to hearing the Japanese metal titans.

Dinosaur J. live at Brooklyn Steel on Nov. 20, 2021

Photos: Dinosaur Jr. Live

Three decades into playing music together, Dinosaur Jr. continue to put on a killer live…

U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind

U2 played it frustratingly safe on All That You Can’t Leave Behind

It was fated, I suppose. As much as a great deal of this series has…

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Curtis Harding Has Something Worth Saying

The Atlanta artist talks about putting something positive into the world and the records that helped him.

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Hayden Pedigo is Soundtracking the Strange Beauty of the Northern Texas Landscape

The Texas guitarist has conflicting personas, but he just wants his music to be taken seriously.

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The Enduring Mystery Of Unknown MF Doom Collaborator Mr. Fantastik

Unraveling the mystery of the unknown guest rapper.

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Perpetual Motion: An Interview with Militarie Gun’s Ian Shelton

We chat with the artist behind the prolific punk rock project, who also drums in Regional Justice Center.

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On Pop, U2 embraced the sounds and pulses of the club

An erroneously reviled album that found U2 showcasing their most experimental tendencies.

IDLES live at Terminal 5 in New York, 2021

Photos: IDLES Live

IDLES never disappoint live, and that remained true at Terminal 5 in New York on…

Japanese Breakfast live at Brooklyn Steel, 2021

Photos: Japanese Breakfast Live

Japanese Breakfast reminded everyone how joyous live music can be at Brooklyn Steel on October…

La Luz interview

La Luz Reaches a Deeper Place

We talk to Shana Cleveland about making more intimate music, ‘The Monkees’ and love.

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Message to the World: An interview with Circuit des Yeux

Haley Fohr discusses -io, grief, joy and building a community.

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Going Home: An interview with Kowloon Walled City

We discuss family, writers block and aversion to genre.

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U2’s Zooropa was a product of limitless imagination

The band’s strangest album was a neon utopia.