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The driving force behind synth-poppers Neighbors gives himself over to tension and release on self-titled EP.

Talking the city’s cocktail scene, the history behind the bar, and a seasonal drink recipe for spreading holiday cheer.

Jozef Van Wissem’s proper follow-up to the 2013 award-winning “Only Lovers Left Alive” soundtrack finds him shrugging off Jim Jarmusch’s abrasive guitar rain and returning to stark solo compositions for lute.

An examination and extension of the fact and fiction of Nick Cave’s life and work.

By calling their ninth record “IX,” the increasingly cosmopolitan quartet highlight how long they’ve been around and, by implication, how far removed they are from 2002’s shadow-casting “Source Tags & Codes.” But “IX” comes closer to replicating Source Tags’ fractured romanticism than anything the group have done since.

Here, we continue with a new FLOOD column, in which the titular “He” converses/argues with the titular…additional “He,” in this case, about a pop-culture event in the preferred forum of pop-culture enthusiasts everywhere: the Gmail G-chat.

Look at that exclamation point. Who could possibly be excited about dying in 2014?, you may rightfully ask.

On LOSE, his band’s third full-length, D’Agostino elegantly surveys the distance between his mid-twenties and his adolescence, rehashing memories whose relative youth doesn’t make them any less powerful.

I’ve purchased and wrapped myself in a six-dollar poncho from a souvenir store; I don’t know it yet, but deciding whether or not to wear this poncho will become the major theme of the day.

We arrive on site as two broken people. There’s a mysterious bruise on my foot, I can barely speak, and my head is pounding. I feel like Flanders in Vegas.

For this year’s Lollapalooza, we didn’t just enjoy the music—we indulged our culinary tastes, too. Inside: Brunkow Cheese, Courtney Barnett, Burrito Beach, Interpol, and more.

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