Daft Punk helped lead the charge for the EDM (electronic dance music) genre. Being one with the machines is kind of the point of being an EDM DJ/producer. It’s a quest that ...

There’s a little old lady partial to cardigans who has earned a place in rock history. Her stuff goes for hundreds of dollars on eBay. She retired two weeks ago, and Los Lob...

“How Soon is Now?” The Smiths cryptically wondered on their self-titled 1984 debut. I can name that tune in one shimmering, echo-pedaled guitar note. So when ex-Smiths gui...

Sonic Youth was born in 1981, three years after I was. We did not grow up together, however: While I was learning to walk and read, they were recording album after album of dr...

My partner, Jaime, lost her dad on Holy Thursday. Her family lives in Los Angeles, and I’m writing this riding down the Pacific Coast Highway so we can put his ashes in the ...

Lil Wayne lives! For a while, we were worried. When the sizzurp-loving rapper was hospitalized two Fridays ago following seizures, fans — myself included — were on Twitter...

You should be listening to new bands. All the time. Reading about a band in a magazine? Too late, lame-o. You should be trading playlists with a 17-year-old reggaeton DJ in Li...

Relevance: It’s what every musician strives for. But how to stay hip when you’ve been in the game for 20 years? Much less the club-music game, which is both fickle and nic...

There are a lot of serious female shredders out there these days. Perhaps the most mind-blowing of them all is Marnie Stern, whose intimidatingly technical playing I can compa...

In 1977, NASA sent recordings into space on board the two Voyager probes. The compendium of sounds — rain, heartbeats and Chuck Berry among them — was meant to give aliens...

A few weekends back, I saw flashy Georgia rapper 2 Chainz at the Fillmore in Silver Spring. Everyone looked cute for the sold-out show that night. 2 Chainz lays down one rule ...

Willow Smith is sad. Except she isn’t just locked in her room listening to Radiohead; she’s sampled the band’s song “Codex” (from 2011’s “The King of Limbs”) a...

Being 21, rising New York rapper Azealia Banks tweets a lot. Banks, known for the 2011 viral hit “212,” is openly bi — new terrain for hip-hop. The gay world brings its ...

Last month’s Hurricane Sandy Relief/”SNL” Nirvana + Paul McCartney Frankenreunion was odd: These men invented and reinvented rock ’n’ roll, and their path led …...

To me, Christmastime is a pan-denominational opportunity to hope for things — peace on earth, a better new year, seeing people I miss. Here, I made you a mixtape about it: "...