British singer-songwriter Laura Marling chooses her words wisely, and it might be the reason why her Friday night set at Manhattan's Le Poisson Rouge seemed to breeze by. "I got through it so fast because I didn't say anything," she said after playing 12 songs in about 45 minutes. "Don't worry, you didn't miss out on any hilarious banter." It's a ...

"I forgot to account for rocking out messing up my hairpiece," My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden said as she re-pinned her feathered and sequined accessory at New York's Bowery Ballroom Friday night. Early on in her band's show, Worden's spastic-but-graceful antics made it quite clear that anything attached to her head wasn't going to stay there ...

While RJD2's third LP 'The Third Hand' was truly a solo affair -- the DJ/multi-instrumentalist took on all musical and vocal duties -- his Jan. 19 release, 'The Colossus,' is his first as a truly independent artist, even though he uses collaborators on a third of the tracks. After releasing work on Definitive Jux and XL Recordings, RJ decided to ...

One of today's most recognizable TV show intros, the opening credits of the award-winning AMC drama 'Mad Men' uses a mysterious, eerie combo of swelling strings and a delicate percussion groove. It's the instrumental portion of 'A Beautiful Mine,' a track composed by DJ/producer/musician RJD2 and rapped over by MC Aceyalone, and when Lionsgate ...

When A Camp's Nina Persson sang, "Now we're gonna party like it's 1699" at her band's show on Tuesday night, she was only half kidding. With plume-adorned microphone stands, an elegant grand piano, sunset-colored lamps and dark blue mood lighting, New York's Le Poisson Rouge was decorated more like an old-fashioned cabaret than a Manhattan music ...