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 ...

Sheila E. combined glamour and drumsticks decades before Meg White. If the name Sheila E. is new to you, great! You’ve got a hot new favorite song to YouTube ahead of her sh...

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 ...

Saturday is Record Store Day, that hallowed annual event when record stores say, “Hey! Remember us?” Vinylheads line up at the coolest stores (Jack White’s Third Man Rec...

California rapper Big Sean broke huge after signing to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. label for his 2011 debut, “Finally Famous.” That disc’s Nicki Minaj-assisted club hit, “...

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...

Artists Mary Coble and Blithe Riley’s most recent work, the 23-minute video “Watermarks,” brought them to the middle of a partially frozen sea. “In the beginning we wo...

A musky odor wafts from a former utility closet on the Phillips Collection’s third floor. The culprit: about 660 pounds of beeswax, coating the walls of German artist Wolfga...

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...

A debate is raging in Massachusetts’ state house: What will be its official state rock song? In the past month, two bills have come before the legislature — one promoting ...

Wonders never cease: I’m jamming to a Gordon Lightfoot tune. It’s a cover of the Canadian folkie’s 1965 song “I’m Not Sayin’,” by seminal ’80s Minneapolis band...

For a band that lasted only four years (from 1976 to 1980, when singer Ian Curtis committed suicide), Joy Division has its cultists. I am one. There’s something entrancing a...