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Just when you realize youve listened to Tapes n Tapes The Loon, more times than your iPod is willing to admit, the Minneapolis boys are ready to release their highly anticipated follow-up, Walk It Off (due out April 8th). read

Roy Wooten better know by his stage name, Futureman is a musician, inventor and composer. While he is best known as a 4 time Grammy Award winning member of genre defying jazz group, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, his recent opus, The Black Mozart Ensemble, finds him taking the helm as the composer and conductor of orchestral instruments and spoken word urban artists. read

Brendan Ekstrom: "I think in general theres a lot of concepts of letting go and us dealing with some of our inner and outer struggles as people. I think that were all in this spacein our mid-twenties where youre kind of between being a young adult and being an adult, and trying to figure out where you actually fit in to the world right now." read

Everything happens for a reason. This clich is uttered almost instantaneously when people are forced to deal with unexpected or unwanted changes. For Indiana post-punk alt-rockers, Murder by Death, change isnt something that must be dealt with; its a way of life. read

Philly hip-hop/live-music hybrid The Roots has presented a true alternative to rap's increasingly postured confines for 20 years now, and not just because they're a hell of a live band. As the group's ninth (or tenth, depending on who you ask) album, the galvanizing, personally political Rising Down goes to the presses, Ahmir ?uestlove Thompson posits that the real secret to The Roots' substantial originality comes from their commitment to reflecting both themselves and the world around them. read