Singled Out: E-40's 'Function'
by Frannie Kelley
Read an interview with the 44 year-old rapper, who's been defying conventional wisdom since 1988.
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Singled Out
by Frannie Kelley
Read an interview with the 44 year-old rapper, who's been defying conventional wisdom since 1988.
by Michael Katzif
The group came out on the other side of turmoil with a sound and a live show they call more potent.
by Laurin Penland
Kurt Wagner began writing the song over Christmas in Nashville and finished it nine months later.
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by Kristin Braswell
The Chicago rapper says he's expressing a less conscious side of himself on an aggressive new song.
by Rachel Smith
In between jokes, the Brooklyn-based trio discusses pop art, "crossover appeal" and their new self-described "slacker rock rap" track.
by Frannie Kelley
Metronomy, recently nominated for the Mercury Prize, calls its song "Some Written" "a bit weird."
by Ann Powers
On her new album, Deceived, Gerson sings 11 songs about the bad things that happen to bad girls.
by Jacob Ganz
Smother, the new album from the English quartet, finds the band still obsessed with sex, but the new songs gentler, and somehow even more intense.
by Andy Hess
The eccentric Oakland-based songwriter talks about moving beyond her lo-fi past on her new album w h o k i l l.
by Frannie Kelley
The elder statesman of West Coast rap says his new single is punchlines and fun. Don't overthink it.
