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Can D'Angelo Save Contemporary R&B's Soul?

posted: July 20, 2012

D’Angelo who? If you’re a music lover of a certain age, too young to remember when contemporary R&B wasn’t joined at the hips with rap, or didn’t come dressed up in a shimmering electro-pop sheen,…
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SoundTrax: Sticky Souls

posted: May 30, 2012

If there has been one unifying theme between all of our SoundTrax posts, we hope it is that every playlist is put together with careful thought and features music with a little more soul than…
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SoundTrax: Summer Festival Preview

posted: April 25, 2012

As the summer festival series approaches, and the EDM movement shows no signs of letting up; producers and DJs are in full swing pumping out their biggest tracks of the year in anticipation of the…
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For Amy Winehouse, Love — and Life — Was a Losing Game

posted: July 24, 2011

When I first heard the news about Amy Winehouse‘s passing (on Twitter, naturally), the comment that stood out most was one by Winehouse herself in an interview that the singer had done a few years…
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Sound And Vision: Disappearing Acts—Music's M.I.A. Stars

posted: April 15, 2011

“The waiting is the hardest part,” Tom Petty once sang. And for fans of David Bowie, Kate Bush and Fiona Apple, none of whom have released studio albums of new material for the better part…
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Mark Ronson Takes Duran Duran Back to the Future on 'All You Need Is Now'

posted: December 21, 2010

The regal reputation of London-born, New York-bred producer/DJ/musician Mark Ronson is based in large part on his track record for producing breakthrough albums by some of Britain’s biggest young pop stars over the last several…
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