Vinylism

The lick-on label was unmistakable. Paul Campfield was reading his mother's name and the address of his childhood San Lorenzo home.

In an era where downloaded singles far outpace the sales of complete CDs, putting out a concept album seems a quaint, if not futile, way to present new music.

Remember the drive-in movies? I saw an article about them recently and the headline instantly took me back to our Chevy II station wagon on a muggy summer night, my brothers and I dressed in our PJs, munching salty popcorn we made at home, waiting for the first movie to start.

NEW YORK - IN AN era where downloaded singles far outpace the sales of complete CDs, putting out a concept album seems a quaint, if not futile, way to present new music. If any act can restore the lustre of the complete album, it may be Green Day: Their '21st Century Breakdown,' released this spring, continues in the tradition of the band's Grammy-winning 'American Idiot' album, with key ...

In an era where downloaded singles far outpace the sales of complete CDs, putting out a concept album seems a quaint, if not futile, way to present new music.

It all started with a tiny prick, so small you couldn’t even see it, much less sit on it. Then by some combustible happenstance, there was an explosion within a vacuum and everywhere everything was shooting out red vinyl pants, gratuitous eyeliner, powder, poppers and pleasantries; there were bright sparkling lights and Stephen Sprouse day-glo atomic backdrops with little vignettes of mischief ...

Big Boi , the half of OutKast who still raps regularly, has been working on Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty , his proper solo debut, for what feels like forever.

Over the past 17 years, Rotterdam's Clone label has shown an undying faith in the classic sounds of techno, electro, house, and disco.

-- One-world genre-buster Manu Chao has produced La Colifata , an album created by patients in a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires. Chao has been working with the hospital's radio station, also called La Colifata, for five years.

It seemed as though Andy Blackman Hurwitz had chosen a pretty normal path in life. He went to college and law school and went on to become a music attorney in Philadelphia. However, the life of a lawyer was simply not keeping him happy, so Hurwitz decided to take the road less traveled.