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Andy Beta

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Andy Beta has written about music and comedy for the Wall Street Journal, the disco revival for the Village Voice, animatronic bands for SPIN, Thai pop for the Believer, New Age music for the LA Times, and judged the 2010 World Air Guitar Championships in Oulu, Finland.

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Ulrich Schnauss, A Long Way t…

Not that Ulrich Schnauss could have predicted it, but the Berlin-based el… more »

Kris Kristofferson, Feeling M…

When Rick Rubin trekked down to record Johnny Cash in his living room bac… more »

Mountains, Centralia

Despite nearly a decade spent in the industrial confines of their North B… more »

Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts…

Last year’s breakout album Replicas elevated laptop noisemaker Dan … more »

Emeralds, Just to Feel Anythi…

Over the last few decades, wheezing analog synthesizers, tranquil New Age… more »

Chelsea Wolfe, Unknown Rooms:…

When Los Angeles singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe released her second albu… more »

Bob Dylan, Tempest

Eight minutes to detail love’s dissolution on “Ballad in Plai… more »

Matthew E. White, Big Inner…

Richmond, Virginia-reared singer/songwriter/arranger Matthew E. White rec… more »

Antibalas, Antibalas

In 1998, when baritone saxophonist Martin Perna assembled a clutch of mus… more »

David Lynch and Alan R. Splet…

Thirty-five years after it first flummoxed undergrads, weirdoes, film sch… more »

Various Artists, Country Funk…

“Country Funk” — a genre named specifically for this ch… more »

Wymond Miles, Under the Pale …

When he wasn’t conjuring dust storms of noir-ish, twanging guitar w… more »

Interview: Liars

A decade into their career, it’s becoming hard to remember that, at… more »

Icon: Willie Nelson

Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic … more »

Paul McCartney, Ram (Special …

The case against Paul & Linda McCartney's Ram (the couple's l… more »

Paul McCartney, Ram

The case against Paul & Linda McCartney's Ram (the couple's l… more »

Discover: Willie Nelson

Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic … more »

Willie Nelson, Heroes…

With his 79th birthday behind him, Willie Nelson is pondering his mortali… more »

Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Par…

The 21st century was a fallow one for neo-soul, an appellation that was o… more »

Various Artists, One Flew Ove…

While this 1975 film from Milos Forman swept every category save Best Sou… more »

Ry Cooder, Paris, Texas …

The soundtrack for Wim Wenders’s 1984 Palme d’Or-winning exis… more »

Lindström, Six Cups of R…

With his debut, Where You Go I Go Too, Norwegian nu-disco producer Hans-P… more »

A Musical History of Muscle S…

You’ve seen how the Muscle Shoals ghost reacted to the music of Sch… more »

El Rego, El Rego

It’s not just that the scream that occurs six seconds into the fier… more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »

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