What exactly is the germ of Columbus “weirdo” rock? There have been many left-of-center acts around the Heart of It All (i.e. Ubu, Eels, Devo, Numbers)

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Top 10 Albums

1. Foxygen, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (Jagjaguwar)
Ambitious pop songs full of both joy and cynicism.

2. Bill Callahan, Dream River (Drag City)
The work of Bill Callahan gets better with age, but this one seemed to be his most immediate album when age has left his songwriting subdued and hushed. It’s his Aja.…

If you were a child of the ’80s, once you heard Prince, all bets were off. Though he was as ubiquitous on the Top 40 as Madonna and Michael, he seemed

Shrug if you will, but since the release of Blackout, the career trajectory of Britney Spears has warranted some serious conversation. That 2007 album was

To be a student on the campus of Kent State in the mid-70s must have been a heady time. Post–National Guard snafu, hippie idealism turned to cynicism

Should the title of Circuit des Yeux’s latest album, Overdue, be taken literally, Haley Fohr has had this record burrowed deep inside her psyche for quite some time. Throughout Fohr’s discography, there have been a number of breathtaking moments of both the awe-inspiring and clutch at your throat variety, but never did it seem there was a time to exhale. Reflect on 2009’s …

Before we leave the summer of discovery, we need to examine a germ unearthed in Missoula, Montana: Mordecai. Not to concentrate on locale