In the 10 years since Brian Wilson finally released Smile, the Beach Boys maestro has mostly stuck to passion projects like What I Really Want For Christmas, Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin, and In The Key Of Disney. The only thing that could pass for a traditional Wilson album was 2008′s California song cycle with Van [...]

This is Chromeo's time. The musical team of David Macklovitch and Patrick Gemayel, aka Dave 1 and P-Thugg, released their newest album, "White Women," on May 12. It is instantly catchy, irresistibly funky and undeniably danceable. It incorporates a hefty portion of the past, but it couldn't possibly sound more...

Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, it seemed plausible that Kanye West could appear on a song with the Minneapolis underground rap institution Atmosphere. Kanye was bringing backpack-rap aesthetics to the mainstream, and Atmosphere were, for a while there, the greatest and most popular backpacker group in the world. It didn’t happen...

We lost Johnny Cash more than 10 years ago, but artists whose careers endure for decades tend to rack up treasure troves of unreleased of material. So it goes with Cash. It seems the Man In Black recorded an album called Out Among The Stars with “countrypolitan” producer Billy Sherrill in the mid-’80s, but Columbia ...

Drummer Ronnie Vannucci says the Las Vegas band would rather have waited another 10 years