I've had an eventful 2008. I moved to Broad Ripple, took up a little hobby called roller derby, and if that wasn’t shaking things up enough, I started dating a DJ. And not just any DJ — a DJ who’s owned his own record store, has his own record label, and is a certified music addict. Needless to say, his obsession with music is ...

If you think of one thing when you think of 808s & Heartbreak, the new album from Kanye West, you should think of Auto-Tune. But if you think of two things, you should think of Auto-Tune and a broken heart. After all, West uses the anyone-can-sing technology (first popularized by Cher on 1998's Believe) to both bolster his singing ability and to create an ...

There's a reason this review did not come out a couple of weeks ago when Death Magnetic, Metallica’s eleventh studio album, was released. Like the majority of Metallica fans, I'd cooled to the band in the early 2000s thanks to the supreme douche-baggery of drummer Lars Ulrich over the Napster/piracy issue and the fact that they've sucked the past few albums. For those who don’t ...