At the age of just 28, Lil Wayne has already made an indelible influence on a young generation of rappers. He famously discovered and mentored Nicki Minaj.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/28/11

At the age of just 28, Lil Wayne has already made an indelible influence on a young generation of rappers. He famously discovered and mentored Nicki Minaj, and taught her how to get really weird. The rest is history, as told to T Cole Rachel and Interview.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/28/11

In the case of Blue Water White Death—the musical nom de plume of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg—the combination of hypersexualized art-rock sensibilities and meditative American folk rock makes for decidedly exhilarating results.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/26/10

Blur's Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett (a.k.a Gorillaz) on playing behind screens, "pop fungus," and their own staying power.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/26/10

Ten tracks that got us through 2009.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/30/09

From Liberace to Wings, we have the season covered.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/18/09

Dead Leaves is actually the title of a great old album by Versus, which I've been listening to a lot lately. In addition, I've been sweeping up lots of dead leaves in my garden and watching a lot of dead leaves fall to the ground all over New York City.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/15/09

Summer officially ended this week, which means it's time to start listening to things that are less about dancing and more getting ready to hibernate.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/25/09