Music Stories Emancipator Safe In The Steep Cliffs(1320) [ELECTRORGANIC] If you turned on the radio in 1939 and heard the Ink Spots’ “If I Didn’t Care,” you’d be able to easily iden ...   More

Top 5 Kava, for general anxiety and insomnia. This stuff works on the same receptors as classical benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax, etc.) but is more anxiolytic than hypnotic in effect, so you won’t wak ...   More

Music Stories We asked the folks behind Rontoms’ ongoing Sunday series (Joe Bowden, Hannah Carlen, Matt King, Ron Toms) for their favorite gigs thus far.Red Fang, Black Elk, Black Eyes and Neckties(2/1/09) On ...   More

Music Stories Ohioan High Country EP(Infinite Front) [FUCKED-UP AMERICANA] At the heart of Ohioan’s sound is a conflict between the embrace of tradition and the refusal of it. Ohioan godhead Ryne Warner se ...   More

Top 5 5. “I’ll Stay,” ParliamentShows the bluesier side of P-Funk. Love the haunting vibe on this. Plus, it’s sampled by the greatest group of all time, De La Soul.4. “Atomic D ...   More

Top 5 “Rebel Without a Pause,” Public EnemyThis for me was the song that bridged the era of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” with the pro-black Afrocentri ...   More

Music Stories Prefuse 73, Sunday, Jan. 31 @ HoloceneTwisted producer Guillermo Scott Heron is back as Prefuse 73, busting some of the most chopped ’n’ screwed instrumental hip-hop jams you’ve ever ...   More

Music Stories Loch Lomond Night Bats(Hush) [FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION] If local chamber-folk outfit Loch Lomond can be accused of anything, it’s being too nice. The band’s songs, which take singer ...   More

Top 5 Electric Light Orchestra, “Last Train to London”What’s not to like?Harry Belafonte, “Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)”A wonderfully energetic and rhythmic calypso jam abo ...   More

Music Stories Drats!!! Too Entertaining???(Self-Released) [FUNNY/FRENZY] Though we enjoyed the first album by Drats!!! immensely, there was reason for concern with a follow-up. 2006’s Welcome to New Granad ...   More