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Listen He Keeps fun. Running
July 14, 2012 – Guitar tech Shane Timm is in charge of the 45 pieces of equipment that travel with the band's tour.
Read You Can't Always Get What You Want: On Music And Expectation
July 13, 2012 – Being aware of the baggage you bring to an album can help you listen to the music on its own terms.
Read A Night Out In New Orleans' New Bohemia
June 13, 2012 – The Music Box, a sound and art installation in New Orleans, works as a metaphor for the city itself.
Watch Hear A Preview Of Grizzly Bear's New, As-Yet-Unnamed Album
June 5, 2012 – The band will release a new full-length record on Sept. 18. Hear the first track, "Sleeping Ute."
Read A Nerdier Guide To 2012 Summer Music Festivals Than You Require
June 2, 2012 – Our statistical analysis of 2012 summer festivals filters more than 20 lineups for exclusivity.
Read Portraits Of An American Metal Festival
May 31, 2012 – Meet four people who headbanged and high-fived at Maryland's Deathfest Memorial Day weekend.
Watch Afghan Whigs: Songs Of Love Gone Wrong, Done Right
May 25, 2012 – After a decade away, the band's songs of intense, complicated desire still lay our reality bare.
Read Metalheads Are People, Too
May 24, 2012 – Who listens to metal? Engineers and government employees who wear leather in 85-degree weather.
Listen Glad To See You Again: Joey Ramone's Unearthed Demos
May 24, 2012 – The singer left behind a number of song fragments, now collected and cleaned up on a new album.
Watch Remembering Go-Go Legend Chuck Brown
May 17, 2012 – James Brown's biographer calls D.C. legend Chuck Brown "the square root of funk."
Watch Stax Bassist Duck Dunn Remembered In Memphis
May 14, 2012 – As one fourth of Booker T. and the MGs, Dunn helped lay the foundation of Memphis soul.
Watch Putting The Fear In Talking Heads' 'Fear Of Music'
May 10, 2012 – When Jonathan Lethem was 15, he heard a Talking Heads album that has haunted him ever since.
Watch Punk Musician Tom Gabel Comes Out As Transgender
May 9, 2012 – The Against Me! singer revealed plans to begin living as a woman to Rolling Stone.
Read On 'Mad Men,' Beatles Tune Misses The Mark
May 8, 2012 – The much-lauded use of "Tomorrow Never Knows" made Don Draper into a man we don't know.
Watch Remembering Bert Weedon, Guitar Teacher To Stars
April 23, 2012 – Weedon's guide to the basics of guitar playing was used by young members of The Who and The Beatles.
