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Feast Your Eyes on Northumbria's Viking-Inspired New Video for "Helluland"
Photo courtesy of Northumbria The last time we featured Canadian ambient composers Northumbria, we presented the duo's newest album, Helluland, in full. Since then, the album itself been released...
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The Selecter's Pauline Black on Bringing Diverse Two-Tone Music Since 1979
Multiculturalism, musical cross-pollination, political activism. All these are more than just idealistic filled missives from the tail end of the past century for a band like The Selecter. Ever since...
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Purrpare Yourself: Run the Jewels Just Released 'Meow the Jewels'
What started as a joke and became a Kickstarter campaign and then became a real thing that was happening is meow a real thing that is real and tangible. Yes, I'm going to be the first of your annoying...
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Do Some Karaoke with Spike & the Sweet Spots
Karaoke is the great equalizer. No matter your jam or how good or bad your chops, when you are up there and holding that microphone all attention is on you and those scrolling words. Chicago heart...
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Tune in Sunday for Episode 13 of VICE on Beats 1
VICE's show on Apple Music's Beats 1 Radio makes its way to episode number thirteen this week mixing new music, current events, and the interactions between the two in the world around us. The weekly...
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Beirut's Zach Condon Comes Home
Photo by Burak Cingi Zach Condon is basically a method actor—his approach to songwriting is built on full immersion. “I am super tapped out after records because I try to do anything and everything on...
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Style Rider: Grace Mitchell Is Lost Without Her Guitar and Stun Gun
Photos courtesy of the artist While YouTube was the mainstay for aspiring musicians in the early 2000s, Soundcloud has become the go-to for getting your music heard and shared in the indie world. For...
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Grab Some Tissues and Watch Kanye West's Hollywood Bowl Performance of '808s...
Chances are like me you're sick with remorse this weekend over your inability to make it to Kanye West's Hollywood Bowl performance of his sad robot classic 808s & Heartbreak. You think it's cruel...
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Motown Preacher: Stevie Wonder Shines at Vegas' LIfe Is Beautiful
All photos by Chase Stevens This is supposed to be a review about Stevie Wonder headlining the first night of the Life is Beautiful Festival in downtown Las Vegas, but as Yeezus himself will tell you,...
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Fetty Wap in Stable Condition Following a Motorcycle Accident
Twitter blew up last night after reports swelled indicating Fetty Wap had gotten into a motorcycle accident in New Jersey. Photos from the scene surfaced showing the "Trap Queen" singer being wheeled...
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Watch Taylor Swift & Mick Jagger Perform "Satisfaction" Live in Nashville
Taylor Swift's unstoppable 1989 World Tour continues to barrel around the world like a glitter-specked avalanche, rolling in whatever pop titans and members of the cast of Friends Ms. Swift sees fit...
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Dark Synth Duo Zombi Is Back from the Dead
Photo courtesy of Biz 3 When Talking Heads mastermind David Byrne gives you advice concerning the music business, you should probably take it. Zombi bassist and keyboardist Steve Moore certainly...
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C86 Legends Close Lobsters Are Back in Action, But They Never Exactly Broke Up
Photo by Alastair Indge Canon is an inscrutable and terrible thing. Who gets left behind and who is used as a cudgel of comparison for all the bands that come after? If history is written by the...
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Art and Music Collided at Day 2 of Las Vegas' Life Is Beautiful Festival
The third annual Life Is Beautiful festival is going down in downtown Las Vegas this weekend, bringing some of the biggest names in music, food, art and learning to the neon-lit desert landscape. Art...
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What Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week 9/27
I actually overheard someone say, “It’s so hard to focus on work when the Pope is in town.” Like, really, are you holding his hat on for him or something? I’m out here working hard on snotty Instagram...
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Chris Brown Denied Visa To Tour Australia
Image: Chris Brown/Facebook One day before tickets are to go on sale for his December national tour, the Australian government has told US singer Chris Brown it will refuse his visa application based...
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Chris Brown Has Been Denied a Visa to Tour Australia on "Character Grounds"
Chris Brown was due to perform in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth in December as part of his One Hell of a Nite tour, but it was announced last night that his visa application to tour in...
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Life on Mars: The Surviving Members of the Earliest No Wave Band Talk...
Photo by Dan Asher Circa 1978, some shortsighted scribe accused Mars of playing music that was hopelessly "arty and empty." In retaliation, the pivotal no wave band transformed that dismissal into a...
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The Courteeners, and How I Tried to Understand Why People Like the Band I...
(Image via ae.edge on Flickr) One of the great beauties of music, and of all art, is its subjectivity. It’s the innate thing that makes one person’s Dre another person's Des’ree and, unless you’re...
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Can You Dig it? 'Rubble Kings' Is the True Story of Gang Warfare That...
From 1968-1975, there was a gang war raging in New York. Young people from the then racially divided communites of the five boroughs spent most of their time causing mayhem and sewing patches on their...
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