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On a warm, hazy Monday in August, tucked away in a nondescript office park in Milford, Connecticut, Keith Dakin, Kevin Begley and Allan Lamberti were deciding the sound of Star 99.9, a radio station that plays what’s known as “Hot Adult Contemporary.” Each week, Dakin and his teamexamine what’s being …

Tom Morello understands sick beats, activist rhymes, and weaponized noise. Matching rappers and rockers with EDM producers,The Atlas Undergroundbrings all the above in the spirit of the early ‘00s, when mash-up maestros like Freelance Hellraiser and Soulwax reframed the possible in pop. In 2018, of course, these styles are inextricably …

Andy Mooney gets asked about his thoughts on drum machines and Auto-Tune a lot. People “expect me to hate them, but I love them all,” says the Fender CEO. Mooney doesn’t see the soaring popularity of digitally created music as a threat to the guitar business because the future of …

During the blues revival and rediscovery of the Sixties, few dominated like Paul Butterfield, the hard-puffing, hard-living harmonica player and band leader. Assertive and experimental Butterfield Blues Band albums like 1966’s East-West, featuring equally manic and inspired guitarist Mike Bloomfield, were essential college-dorm listening. And during the following decade, Butterfield’s …

Early next month, Guns N’ Roses will kick off the 10th, and possibly final, leg of their Not in This Lifetime reunion tour. Many people thought that Slash and Axl Rose wouldn’t be able to share the stage for more than couple of weeks before the whole thing imploded, but …

If the marketing folks at Dos Equis were casting for The Most Interesting Candidate in the World, they’d have to consider 31-year-old Katie Hill. The former homeless advocate is bisexual,a goat farmer,a gun owner,a survivor,and she won her Democratic primary while being trailed by a film crew for Vice News. …

A review of “We’re All Beasts,” this week’s The Deuce, coming up just as soon as I’m wearing two left shoes… “I love this fuckin’ town.” -Candy “We’re All Beasts” is as compact as a show with the narrative sprawl of The Deuce can get. We check in on most …

Tom Morello recruited Portugal. The Man and Whethan for a scintillating rendition of “Every Step That I Take,” a track off the guitarist’s new EDM-influenced LP The Atlas Underground, on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The rendition served as a showcase for Morello to unleash his six-string fireworks, with the guitarist dropping …

T.I. declared he is “officially done” with Kanye West‘s “antics.” The rapper took to Instagram to express his strong disapproval following West’s wild White House visit and meeting with President Trump on Thursday. In his post, T.I. lamented ever having worked with West. In April, the rappers discussed West’s support …

If you’ve been wondering where the loud, progressive punk music is in 2018, you haven’t been listening to enough Pill. The New York band has been pushing back against power structures, gender stereotypes and political complacency since 2015, when they released their self-titled debut EP. As the stakes on all …