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Miami Burning: Surviving the World's Wildest Party | ARTICLE

Sometime after dawn on a recent Sunday, down by the resort-size pool of his Bali-style Miami mansion, Diddy interrupts veteran Chicago DJ Felix Da...
April 25, 2013 3:30 PM ET
Intense New 'Detropia' Tracks the Fall of America's Greatest Industrial City | ARTICLE

Want a glimpse of what the Republican vision for downsizing government could mean for America's cities? You could do a lot worse than visit Detroit. Ravaged by the decline of the auto industry, Detroit's population has shrunk...
October 19, 2012 2:25 PM ET
The Cosmic Journey of Jimmy Cliff | ARTICLE

Jimmy Cliff – original Jamaican rude boy, Third-World musical revolutionary and reggae's first global superstar – is steering his maroon BMW through ...
July 5, 2012 10:55 AM ET
Prep-Auteur Whit Stillman Returns With a College Comedy | ARTICLE

At a Harvard reunion one year, Whit Stillman heard about a group of young women who set out to make college better. "They would dress up and be stylish and have parties, and that was all sort...
October 28, 2011 2:55 PM ET
"Drive" | SONG REVIEW

If Daft Punk are the Beatles of dance music, then this lost 1994 nugget – from a new compilation celebrating Scottish label Soma's 20th birthday – is their Cavern Club: all adrenaline, sweat and raw...
September 22, 2011 8:00 AM ET
David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia Storm Electric Daisy Carnival | ARTICLE

You’d think there’s no way Las Vegas could be more brightly illuminated, more dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure, more accommodating of radically skin-baring fashion. But for three balmy nights kicking off June 24th, all the things...
June 28, 2011 1:30 PM ET
The E Street Band's Secret Weapon | ARTICLE

On a recent evening in late May, the empty Izod Center arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey, is vibrating with the stop-start sounds of...
June 25, 2009 6:30 PM ET
Video: Live at the John Varvatos' CBGB Opening Party | ARTICLE

April 18, 2008 5:55 PM ET
Sound Of Silver | ALBUM REVIEW

For a future-disco hero, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is unusually self-conscious. Before you hear a single kick-drum sample on his excellent second album, Murphy seems to be intentionally setting the bar low, giving the massive, clattering dance-floor...
March 9, 2007 12:00 AM ET
Return To Cookie Mountain | ALBUM REVIEW

On their 2004 debut, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, TV on the Radio tended to put the art before the rock, which made the idea-packed disc more interesting than it was appealing. For their major-label follow-up, the...
September 7, 2006 12:00 AM ET
We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions | ALBUM REVIEW

Near the end of "Mrs. McGrath," a nineteenth-century Irish ballad that is the third track on Bruce Springsteen's new album, comes a couplet that gives a pretty good sense of why he's putting out an album of...
May 19, 2006 12:00 AM ET
"Impossible" | SONG REVIEW

Kanye goes Hollywood with a glossy, Philly-soul-sampling contribution to the Mission: Impossible III soundtrack (he also delivered a bombastic take on the franchise's theme music), featuring speed rapper Twista, hip-hop soul princess Keyshia Cole and a...
May 18, 2006 5:15 PM ET
The Life Pursuit | ALBUM REVIEW

Like the Kinks and the Magnetic Fields, Scottish pop perfectionists Belle and Sebastian are brilliant at pairing heart-tugging melodies with perfectly turned lyrics that favor kiss-offs over come-ons. But on the group's seventh album, a little bit...
February 7, 2006 12:00 AM ET
Guerolito | ALBUM REVIEW

Beck got it exactly right when he added the Spanish diminutive lito to the title of his remixed version of Guero: Stripped-down...
December 15, 2005 3:00 PM ET
Front Parlour Ballads | ALBUM REVIEW

Richard Thompson has long been one of rock's greatest guitarists, but his virtuosity isn't revealed in pyrotechnics. It's more about the way that he makes everything he plays — whether a latter-day sea chantey, bard-worthy minstrel ballad...
August 11, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Mighty ReArranger | ALBUM REVIEW

When Robert Plant vowed, "Valhalla, I am coming!" near the beginning of "Immigrant Song," it sounded like he was planning on getting there in a hurry. Thirty-five years later, the Led Zeppelin frontman is still headed for...
May 19, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Live At Earls Court | ALBUM REVIEW

It's been nearly twenty years since the Smiths broke up, but the band's passionate, sensitive fans have never quite gotten over it. On this live set from 2004, Morrissey — who is slowly turning into a British...
April 7, 2005 12:00 AM ET