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Is Weed and Beer the Reason Your Band Sucks?
If you are in a band it probably sucks. It’s just raw statistics. You may also be pretty damn good, but who cares? The bottom line is: you want to improve, right? So what are your options? Obviously...
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Listen to the Imperfect Perfection of Tommy T and the Classical Mishaps
You could say that Tommy T is misunderstood. Some hate him. Others are wary of him. Many just don’t get his sense of humour. But when Texas Tom and his band the Classical Mishaps take the...
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Watch A$AP Rocky Play "Everyday" and "Pharsyde" From the Late Late Show
Last night on The Late Late Show with James Corden, A$AP Rocky appeared to perform two of the songs, "Everyday" and "Pharsyde" from his new record AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP. It was a really great performance;...
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Rank Your Records: Motion City Soundtrack's Justin Pierre Rates the Band's...
Photo: Shervin Lainez There are a few things you should know about Justin Pierre going into this interview, mainly that doing it possibly took years off his life. "This is an impossible task and it...
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Toward a New Cubanity: How Pavel Urkiza Forged the Sound of Gen-X Cuba and...
Photos by Nebiyou Elias On a balmy August evening, musician Pavel Urkiza warmed his fingers on his guitar with an anxious, fast-paced flamenco as waiters at Sam’s on the Waterfront, an upscale...
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Omar Souleyman's Endless Charm: Berating the Heart and Cursing Fate
Omar Souleyman’s music is a dizzying fusion of contradictions. It’s folk but it’s tech. It’s festive but it’s melancholy. It’s rich with regional arrangements, guided by poetic yearnings. But it’s...
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Celebrate LA's Incredible Beat Scene and Listen to Zack Sekoff's Remix of...
Photo courtesy of Zack Sekoff The city of Los Angeles is a hotbed for many things: suicide-inducing traffic, Persian club promoters in boot cut jeans, Beverly Hills housewives with bad plastic...
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Investigating the Conspiracy That Says Avril Lavigne Was Killed off and...
This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. When Avril Lavigne released the video for the hyper-kawaii trainwreck of a track “Hello Kitty” two years ago, fans were confused. Aside from the claims...
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Meet Sulynn Hago, Propagandhi's New Guitarist, Here to Shred Your Faces Off
Photo via Facebook If you wanted to illustrate the diversity of North America in terms of climate and culture, you'd be hard pressed to pick two better examples than Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Tampa,...
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PREMIERE: Listen to "Amphibiava" from Tori Amos's Musical 'The Light Princess'
Perhaps it was inevitable that Tori Amos, whose own visionary discography draws so heavily on mythologies both traditional and invented, would wind up adapting a fairytale for the stage. Not that the...
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Snarling UK Punks YAK Will Rip You Up and Spit You Out on Their Latest Single...
Meet Yak, the snotty UK trio recently signed to the Southern church of Third Man Records. This snarly, overdriven cut from the band's latest 7" "No" takes cues from Jack White's roster of blues-rock,...
View ArticleZHU'S Drops Another Banger - "Testarossa Music" featuring Gallant
Back in 2014 we premiered the video for "Faded" by Grammy-nominated ZHU, a LA producer and vocalist. Since then that video has been watched 17 million times. WTF!? That is awesome! Unlike the origin...
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Scrapbook: Meg Myers Flips Through Her Old Photo Albums
The last time we wrote about this Nashville-born, LA-based songwriter was regarding her ghost-sexual video for “Desire”—a tortured tune that’s since clocked in three million views. Over a year later...
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Coheed and Cambria Is Still Chasing Infinity
LeAnn Mueller There's a lot to take in about Coheed and Cambria, even if it doesn't appear immediately. Maybe one night way back when, your buddy invited you out to see Thrice at a show, and in the...
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I'm the Guy Who Paints Grime Stars as If They Are Landed Gentry from the 1700s
In a way, the olden days are very similar to modern times, in that most people who are not rich and white are slowly dying. And nowhere is this more recognized than in all the historical portrait...
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Here's Celebrated Novelist Salman Rushdie Being Forced to Read Drake Lyrics
Salman Rushdie is a 68-year old award-winning author. Drake is a 28-year old award-winning musician. Outside of the fact that both gentlemen have won awards and have a first and last name, they don't...
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Ottawa Newspaper Escalates Beef, Writes Reply to Sun Kil Moon Frontman
Sure to join the great annals of music history, an Ottawa journalist has released a diss track taking aim at Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek. Why would a writer, surely the pinnacle of objectivity...
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PREMIERE: Gun Outfit Brings Punk to the Western Front on New Record 'Dream...
Photo by Heather Hall Gun Outfit is a two-piece band born in Olympia, Washington but its core members Dylan Sharp and Carrie Keith have been bumming around LA for the past couple of years. Their...
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VIDEO PROOF: Justin Bieber Can't Handle His Liquor
Regret is a powerful thing, and so too is alcohol. That's why it's no surprise that both are powerful catalysts for the other. Take for example Mr. Justin Bieber, who, while partying it up with Rae...
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PREMIERE: Beliefs Are That Cool Shoegaze Band You Recorded Late at Night in...
Do you ever think about how years ago, what defined memories for a lot of people was home movies? Your parents probably have a few tapes in a bin somewhere, filled with videos of you meandering around...
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