CD sales finished the year 2.4% above 2003, marking the first time this century that music sales have experienced a year-to-year bump. But the big story for the music industry comes from the newer ...

DMX’s 2003 release, Grand Champ, was his fifth album in five years. The rapper detailed his issues with the contracts the record labels subjected him to. He didn’t like signing for five to seven years ...

While the first day of the 2004 Playboy Jazz Festival stayed generally within the galaxy of music that can be called jazz, Sunday's edition sometimes careened off the chart in the inimitable Playboy ...

As prescribed by tradition, December means year-end lists. But instead of pretending mine was the only opinion, I thought it might be interesting to ask local music-oriented folks – writers, musicians ...

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There was a time when the hip-hop industry was committed to the East Coast and West Coast’s longstanding war over sonic dominance. For most, the genre was always powered by two sounds: from the East, ...

PREVIEW LOVE at First BLEEP Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard goes Postal, saving '80s pop one song at a time. Can a good record become a great record because it reminds us of music so bad, it was ...

Can you feel nostalgic for something that never happened? If so, the recent Paramount Plus series Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza offers up a few hauntological pangs for Lollapalooza 2004. That year ...

The 24-year-old CMJ (College Media Journal) has long been a harbinger of hip. Its weekly magazine, in fact, tracks college radioplay, which, through the years, has been trumpeting indie music long ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Mason Gross School of the Arts announces the Fall 2004 Music at Kirkpatrick Chapel series. A series of free events, performances take place in the historic Kirkpatrick Chapel on ...

These are the ten albums I’ve listened to most in the past year, in alphabetical order. I could’ve ranked them according to how often they ended up on my stereo, but that would’ve been ridiculous.