It is nice seeing all-star charity songs that are neither overly cheesy nor filled with boring has-beens gathered around microphones exchanging vocal gymnastics. Because why should charitable deeds not have strong artistic merit? As a benefit for Coca-Cola’s RAIN, Replenish Africa Initiative, Solange Knowles, Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and Twin Shadow got together and recorded […]
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What’s not to love? You’ve got cool shoes, charity, trippy visuals and new Animal Collective tunes. Answer: nothing’s not to love. Last fall Animal Collective teamed up with Keep Sneakers to release four uniquely-styled shoes (one for each Collective member), the profits of which will go to benefit Socorro Island Conservation Fund, a charity to help […]
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Keeping a firm grip on being the coolest summer festival, Pitchfork released the preliminary lineup for its Pitchfork Music Festival. And it looks AMAZING! The fest will take place July 15-17 at Chicago’s Union Park. That is three days of brews, tunes, and good-time living. Check out this lineup: Friday, July 15: — Animal Collective — James […]
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Lil’ Wayne is out of confinement and apparently ready to start being the best again. This video for “6 Foot 7 Foot,” directed by Hype Williams is filled with awesome images and more importantly amazing rhymes. Both Wayne and Cory Gunz are extremely impressive in their delivery. I guess this video is based on Inception, but […]
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Last year’s Lucky Shiner was one of those types of records that made people who aren’t normally into electronic music turn their heads and take notice of Gold Panda. It was just so articulate and precise. But Gold Panda is definitely and undeniably an electronic producer. And one of the lovable characteristics of the genre […]
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Is it OK for me to be really excited upon reading Deftones news? Middle school me is really giddy about hearing that Chino Moreno and the gang are putting out new music. But, truth be told, this news is kind of cool no matter what your eighth-grade thoughts on the band were. As part of […]
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I love guest stars! And, obviously, so does everyone. Basically the only reason to go see live music anymore is because there is a chance that Kanye West might appear. (That’s not true, go see live music for any number of reasons.) Still, when Kanye West and Mos Def dropped in on Lupe Fiasco’s show […]
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Tyler The Creator says “I’m a fuckin’ unicorn” like six times in this video. After killing it on Jimmy Fallon and getting all kinds of internet famous, Odd Future appeared on MTV, as they get followed around Philly. I don’t quite know how to feel about the huge success of a group who is expressing so […]
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Sure, TV On The Radio, you can just unassumingly put out this new song and pretend it is not super mind blowing. These guys are so consistently awesome, and it looks like they are showing no signs of discontinuing this trend. “Will Do” is the first we have heard from the band’s forthcoming Nine Types of […]
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Have you ever wanted to listen to every Number One pop song from the beginning of time up until 1993? No? Too bad! This exists and there is no way to un-exist it. There’s only a couple seconds of every song, so the fact that this entire compilation is 72 minutes is pretty intense. Listen […]
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Swedish songstress Lykke Li is gearing up to release her followup to her awesome 2008 debut Youth Novels. The new record is called Wounded Rhymes and comes out one week from today. But as Radiohead have already proven, a week is a really long time to wait for something. So now we can stream Wounded […]
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It’s like, “We’re releasing an album and you can listen to it in a week.” And then it’s like, “PSYCHE! LISTEN TO IT A DAY EARLIER THAN YOU THOUGHT!” These guys. Always catering to my impatience. Since you pre-ordered the record (you better’ve pre-ordered the record), you can download it here. The full, glorious double […]
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