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THE NEW STYLE: Week of 4/7/16

Thanks to the advent of music recording software that’s as accessible as the channels to distribute the latest Hot Track, it may seem easy to drown in the river of new tunes these days.

Revisiting the musical landscape of Snarky Puppy’s Sylva

With the release of the excellent “Family Dinner Volume 2” and a recent Grammy win for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, it’s a good time to revisit Snarky Puppy’s landmark 2015 release, Sylva

Kanye West has a women problem

One of the most telling bits of insight we got from Kanye West’s social media confrontation with rapper Wiz Khalifa in the past few weeks was a particular string of tweets referencing model and founder of eponymous not-for-profit organization, Amber Rose.

THE LIST: Winter Again? Snow Problem!

You have every right to cringe at that headline. But that’s the kind of cabin fever you get when you’re snowed in after a week of “back to normalcy.”

THE LIST: (re)writing off 2015

What do you mean it’s already December? We can’t believe that such an eventful year—musically (Kendrick! Björk! Grimes! Sleater-Kinney!) and academically (Emma and Andrew here are finishing their first semester of college!)—is

THE LIST: music to pick your last-minute, ironic “sexy [blank]” costume to

In the great holiday song war, Halloween is often seen as getting the short end of the candy corn-adorned stick. Sure, there are the standards—”Monster Mash,” “This is Halloween,” “Where Are U Now” (what’s more scary that admitting you like a Justin Bieber song?)—but