On Saturday night, Jill Scott sang at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. About midway up the center seating area stood a little boy. He wore a white undershirt and white basketball shorts, and he was with his mother, a petite woman in a green dress. The boy couldn't have been more than 8—though I [...]

I've always liked Jill Scott. Pardon the terrible, terrible music cliche, but the woman marches to the beat of her own drum. She puts her personal life, including a recent divorce, out there in her songs. She talks A LOT on stage, if her live album is any indication. She goes into these long, [...]

What is there left to say about Vampire Weekend that hasn't already been said in Spin, Rolling Stone, the New York Times and other publications? By this point, their story is familiar: the quartet went to Columbia University together. They started playing music together in early 2006, and quickly picked up plenty of heat and [...]