It’s been a pretty agonizing couple of years for Sigur Rós fans. In early 2010, the Icelandic art-rockers announced a double bummer: They were scrapping the recordings that were supposed to make up their sixth studio album, then going on an indefinite hiatus. The group’s eternally elfin lead singer Jonsi recently hinted that new material [...]

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Swedish manpeach Kristian Matsson–aka the Tallest Man on Earth, to be accompanied Sunday night with Sean Carey–is too often compared to a young Dylan. Sure, he's able to be rambling and confessional in a single verse. But he can also produce some pretty masterful guitar plunking. Generally accompanied only by guitar, he [...]

In which the author wonders whether art for kids is art at all.

Children's music is like child pornography: Both serve the same purpose as their adult counterparts, but an adult's interest in either is unacceptable. Why, then, have They Might Be Giants made the children's book/DVD Kids Go and, in this last decade, redefined themselves [...]