CocoRosie uses childlike wonderment with adult experimentation on their latest album

Blonde Redhead's latest album, '23,' is a different look for the group, but it still dabbles in the art of seduction

Conor Oberst combines country and ambience on the latest Bright Eyes' album 'Cassadaga'

Hoist the boom box on your shoulder and turn up local rapper Spikaboxxx

Nas ends his long silence by declaring 'Hip Hop is Dead' - and then tries to prove himself wrong

Duluth band Low returns with 'Drums & Guns,' an album that speaks of wartime with lullabies

Rapper Talib Kweli teams up with producer Madlib for the record 'Liberation'

Leslie and the Lys rap about kitsch culture and, most of all, gem sweaters

MC Frontalot strings rhythms and algorithms in his nerdcore hip-hop movement

Local rapper Brother Ali returns with an excellent sophomore album, 'The Undisputed Truth'