Category Archives: Music

For those of us who weren’t around to experience the golden age of ’80s punk, Joe Sib’s spoken word concert “California Calling” can be a way to travel back to the period when rockers rebelled and rebels rocked.

These past few years may have been more of a singles decade for pop music, yet a few underrated indie darlings and well-known seasoned veterans managed to fashion impressive long forms.

With the music industry fracturing more and more each year and the widespread availability of music on the Internet, indie music has become a giant metaphor for the numerous niche markets that have popped up across not only the musical landscape but within our iPods.

Every decade has its own fashion trends and moments, and the last 10 years are no exception. The American blue jean lost weight to become skinnier than Kate Moss, while formerly frumpy designer Marc Jacobs became a toned and tan icon.

As one of the younger genres in music, hip-hop is still in a formative state. In the past 10 years, its identity has gone in more directions than MapQuest would care to count.

The last decade never clearly tied itself to a single musical trend, the way hair metal defined the ’80s or grunge the ’90s ““ if anything, we saw the emergence of hip-hop and its reliance on the hit single.

The 2000s have given us both the best and the worst in music ““ for every track like Kanye’s “Through the Wire,” Kevin Federline’s rap and Brazilian fusion “Popozão” served as reminder that fame doesn’t necessarily equal talent.