December 5, 2011 • Our list spans more than a dozen genres and includes artists well-known and brand-new, but every one opened our ears to something new. These are the albums that made us hand our ...

How does the saying go? "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Overquoted, tossed off and attributed to the likes of Elvis Costello, Steve Martin and Frank Zappa, there might be ...

Lykke Li performs during the Lollapalooza Festival at Grant Park in Chicago on August 6th, 2011. Thanks to Bat for Lashes, Fever Ray, and Zola Jesus, the pagan chanteuse has emerged as a major force ...

Music's perhaps the easiest art form to argue about, and 2011 in particular was a good year for big debates in pop, rock, and rap. Does modern music have a defining sound? Is it a problem if it ...

Over the course of two seasons, the show – which stars Timothy Olyphant as Waylan Givens, a U.S. Marshal grappling with murderous clans in the backwoods of his hometown of Harlan, Kentucky – has ...

This year’s best show, I am still convinced, happened in February, when noise rock godheads Swans played Mohawk in Austin. My hearing was left impaired, my spine crooked, my spirit broken. I’ve never ...

The annual Music in the Parks series is something Andrew Ward of the Flint Institute of Music looks forward to each year. After 21 years, he said, Mary Margaret St. John’s vision of bringing music to ...