The Coup

Featuring Boots Riley of the Coup with special guests Roberto Miguel, Shiney Things, & Masters of the Universe. Read More

Sunday's election will likely accomplish what the plotters of a coup set out to do five months ago: end the political career of leftist President Manuel Zelaya and replace him with a more moderate leader from Honduras' establishment. Read More

What is beyond dispute is that 1970's Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out is certainly the best live album the Rolling Stones ever recorded. Read More

Galactic's new album will be released on February 9, 2010. Read More

D.J. Cinema and D.J. Mello-The Commission (a.k.a.-B.I.G. and Jay-Z, The Album that Never Was) (2005-Mixtape) and Bobb Deep-Queensbridge (200?-DJ Swindle) . Read More

For our best-of-the-decade music list, it was more about the gut than the strict math we use to determine the best albums of each year. Read More

In 2008, the United States of America successfully elected its first African-American president and changed the course of history. Read More

You may know Devendra Banhart as the hirsute dude who briefly dated Natalie Portman, but the 27-year-old Californian is a seriously gifted (and slightly eccentric) singer-songwriter who's released six records of wonderfully experimental folk-rock. Read More

With a head full of feathers and his face painted like a glittering Star Trek dolphin, experimental polymath Saul Williams exploded his latest witchcraft, the "Niggy Tardust Experience", all over The Independent Tuesday night. Read More