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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A comprehensive list of the Chicago bands who are playing Austin’s SXSW Music Festival 2011
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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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If you haven’t seen Portlandia yet, you are probably watching TV wrong. The Fred Armisen/Carrie Brownstein sketch show is amazing, and on point in satirizing hipster culture. You could easily replace Portland with Brooklyn or any hip neighborhood in any major city. On the upcoming episode titled Blunderbuss, some big name Portland-based musicians drop by. [...]
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I used to think “No Parents No Rules” was the best mantra ever. But Ponytail may have me beat with “Do Whatever You Want All The Time.” An on top of coming up with the new phrase that I will be repeating every morning when I wake up, Ponytail seem to be brewing up some [...]
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Theophilus London’s new Lovers Holiday EP is his most cohesive release to date. The first proper release following a string of stellar mixtapes, the EP captures a beautiful moment of 80s nostalgia packaged with on-point lyrics by the Brooklyn MC. The fact that Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara drops by on the track “Why [...]
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We are all still really stoked about Arcade Fire being named America’s best record. We are all still eagerly anticipated the new Radiohead album coming out Saturday that we just paid $50 to pre-order. It has truly been a big day for indie music getting cred in the mainstream. But under the radar (just kidding, [...]
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