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There's been no more vital a presence than OOIOO over the last decade in music, even if too few people got to hear them. Read More

I was a big fan of the Fantasia soundtrack and loved the Schoolhouse Rock stuff. Read More

Volcano Choir, Justin 'Mr Iver' Vernon's new collaboration with fellow Wisconsinites and "favourite band", Collections of Colonies of Bees earlier this year released Unmap , a brooding debut of experimental sound and vision. Read More

If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to fill at least a dozen Perez Hilton blog posts or at least one story in Us Weekly. Read More

Butch Walker has come a long way since that guitar solo on " Tainted Angel ". Read More

In late 2003, this writer and another friend spent a few weeks doing some old-school serious reporting and digging to write a feature on the death of L.A. indie-songwriter Elliott Smith . Read More