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The Hold Steady are a New York indie rock band for people who hate New York indie rock bands, and their new album chronicles the country's dark underbelly.
By Michaelangelo Matos
July 14, 2008
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How sex, booze and heavy metal fit into the world of hip young Arabs today.
By Laura Miller
July 10, 2008
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Glenn Gould's obsessive pursuit of the perfect piano led to the enduring heart of his extraordinary music.
By Kevin Berger
July 3, 2008
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I was an alienated kid roiling with sexual anxiety. But then New Wave gave me the soundtrack -- and the courage -- to embrace my homosexuality.
By Kera Bolonik
June 28, 2008
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Forget the Bronx and South Central. If you want to find the best hip-hop dancers in the world look farther east, to South Korea.
By Jeff Chang
June 26, 2008
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Meanwhile, Microsoft keeps its DRM servers alive.
By Farhad Manjoo
June 19, 2008
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He insists he's "the best rapper alive" -- and many agree. But can his smash-hit new album really redeem a flagging genre?
By Jess Harvell
June 19, 2008
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True confessions: From a trek through the American West to a life filled with music, these memoirs will whisk you away.
By Salon staff
June 9, 2008
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Radiohead! Kanye! My Bloody Valentine! Dylan! Here's what to catch -- and what to skip -- on the festival circuit this summer.
By Judy Berman and Charly Wilder
June 5, 2008
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On her debut album the velvety-voiced actress's dreamily erotic charms are not lost in translation.
By Stephanie Zacharek
May 28, 2008
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It's a sad day when a farm boy from Iowa can say that about a musical genre he once loved. When will the awful dance crazes end?
By Paul Kix
May 12, 2008
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Overheard on college radio: A home-coming of sorts for an old-school "alternative"
By Andrew Leonard
May 9, 2008
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Colleges report receiving lots of copyright infringement complaints aimed at students.
By Farhad Manjoo
May 6, 2008
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On "Hard Candy," the 49-year-old disco queen gracefully walks a tightrope between sex, motherhood and aging.
By James Hannaham
April 30, 2008
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Suze Rotolo, the musician's first muse, has written an entertaining memoir about their love affair that is also a remarkable portrait of living and making art in the 1960s.
By Stephanie Zacharek
April 26, 2008
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The moody British band is back, but they've ditched sensual black grooves and embraced their inner goth.
By James Hannaham
April 17, 2008
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We're working together but she's so flaky it feels like she's working against me.
By Cary Tennis
April 17, 2008
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Now my life is all screwed up and nothing works.
By Cary Tennis
April 16, 2008
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Forget the slick mall-punk that rules the radio. If you like your music chaotic and bratty, you need to hear Times New Viking and Be Your Own Pet.
By Jess Harvell
April 15, 2008
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The bunnies interview the band, and Chou Chou introduces her own musical group.
April 9, 2008
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CD sales slip, digital sales skyrocket.
By Farhad Manjoo
April 4, 2008
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Are Gnarls Barkley's wacky costumes and goofy antics just a smoke screen for the massively successful duo's angst?
By Miles Marshall Lewis
April 3, 2008
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Why the dark and madly poetic Destroyer is my favorite rock band in ages.
By Kevin Berger
March 31, 2008
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Nobody knows, but such a plan has its merits.
By Farhad Manjoo
March 20, 2008
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In the last two days, Eliot Spitzer's escort may have made more than $1,000 an hour, and she didn't even have to take her clothes off.
By Farhad Manjoo
March 14, 2008
Soundtrack for the great American road trip
Here come the muhajababes!
In search of the holy grand 
My coming-out mix tape
So you think they can break-dance?
Apple's iTunes sells 5 billion songs, but you don't own them
Can Lil Wayne save hip-hop? 
Summer reads
Salon's guide to summer music festivals 
Can Scarlett Johansson sing?
Hip-hop is no longer cooler than me
The indie-rock fall and rise of R.E.M.
Does Madonna still matter?
Tangled up in Dylan
Did Portishead kill trip hop?
I'm a stage manager with an unmanageable partner
The punk stops here
Rabbit Bites: Rock 'n' roll with Carbon/Silicon
Hip-hop's biggest clowns
The music lover
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald
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