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Meredith Remains The Best Place to Enjoy Really Good Music
A question I didn’t foresee asking myself during Meredith Music Festival’s 27th iteration: If Mark Seymour and Samuel T. Herring had a punch-on, who would win? Seymour has a few decades on Herring, but...
View ArticleThe Guide to Getting into Nine Inch Nails
Whether or not Nine Inch Nails qualifies as an industrial band remains one of the dumbest debates ever undertaken in music. Reviled by anachronistic purists still grousing decades later over how the...
View ArticleSorry Guys, We're About to Ruin Your Christmas
In all honesty, Christmas music is dark as hell. For a start, there are the retail workers who are unrelentingly subjected to these songs – their minds slowly eroded to the tune of “The Most Wonderful...
View ArticleHow Did Beyoncé Not Have a #1 Hit in the Past 10 Years?
Ten years is a long time in pop music. Actually it’s a long ass time in general, but on Monday Beyoncé ended an unlikely, and frankly, unbelievable, drought of ten years without a number-one US song...
View ArticleSkyping With House Music Legend Larry Heard
Home to Graceland, Stax and Ardent Studios, Goner Records and The Oblivions, as well as Tommy Wright III and Three 6 Mafia, Memphis is a serious music town. It’s also where house music pioneer Larry...
View ArticleListen to Frank Ocean’s New GTA V Radio Station Playlist
Los Santos is a beautiful and disgusting city, a place where dreams are shattered and men are flamethrowered to the ground with reckless abandon. Though it's the prime location in the game Grand Theft...
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The 13 Best Mixes of 2017
Songs and albums tell part of the story of a given calendar year, but the best DJs can lend an additional context and depth. Groundbreaking mixes can help you understand unseen connections between...
View Article"Unlock It" Hints at More Heat to Come from Charli XCX's 'POP 2'
Knowing Charli XCX when POP 2, her second mixtape of 2017, is released on Friday it'll be so ridiculously good that every music publication in existence will have to delete their end of year lists and...
View ArticleIs This New Jack White Song Even a Song? Asking for a Friend
Jack White has done... something. Today, what appeared to be a new Jack White track appeared on YouTube and streaming services. It's called "Servings and Portions from My Boarding House Reach" (try not...
View ArticleGet Excessive with 2 Chainz's New SBS VICELAND Show 'MOST EXPENSIVEST'
Who better to take us on a voyage through the world's most expensive shit than 2 Chainz? He's a man who understands the finer things in life, and that's a quality the good people at SBS VICELAND...
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I was the beatmaker of Saddam Hussein
On the deck of a yacht, women of large proportions wiggle, flutes of champagne in hand. In the middle of them, a man shakes a half empty bottle, open shirt, white trousers, gold chain and confident...
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Profligate’s Industrial Pop Shifts Between a Warm Hug and a Cold Shoulder
There’s no gate. It’s prof-la-git. GIT. Well, it’s actually Noah Anthony, a veteran of the American underground noise scene, who over the last decade has shifted the lines of warehouse industrial...
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Mistletone Music Share Some Lost Favourites of Their First 11 Years
Ash and Sophie Miles are some of the music world’s good eggs. Since 2006, the husband and wife team have been operating Mistletone, an independent label and touring company based in Melbourne. Their...
View ArticleMac DeMarco Awkwardly Met Tom Hanks but Had a Good Night on 'Colbert'
"Alright," I hear you say, "what more can be gleaned from Mac DeMarco's frequent late night talk show visits?" Admittedly, he does show up a lot on the circuit, bringing his perpetually chorus pedal-ed...
View ArticleKing Krule Rocked Up On Stage in Paris with Mount Kimbie Tuesday Night
King Krule's tour behind his album The Ooz (if you didn't know, we decreed that it's the third best record of 2017 recently) has taken him to lots of places, and happily, it landed him in Paris at the...
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Neil Diamond Is So Good! So Good! So Good!
In 1962, a young songwriter who performed under the name Neil Diamond, and in fact was born with the name Neil Diamond, began a job at a small publishing company called Sunbeam, in a Midtown Manhattan...
View ArticleSorry Morrissey, Der Spiegel Has Audio Proof You're Still an Asshole
So yesterday we appealed for Der Spiegel to drop that Morrissey interview audio, since he so vehemently insisted (on Facebook, the medium of every angry and wrong uncle on the planet) that the German...
View ArticleSZA Performed a Special Version of "Supermodel" on 'Fallon' Last Night
SZA's had a storybook 2017 thanks to her remarkable debut album, CTRL, which is our album of the year. The TDE songstress is the most-nominated woman for the 2018 Grammys and if her album wasn't enough...
View ArticleJackson Politick Knows the Sorrows of 2017 City Life
"It's the same, but I gotta say it.” Andy Human, frontman of Andy Human and The Reptoids and guitarist of Oakland’s The World, continues his lo-fi pop exploration with Jackson Politick, a new project...
View ArticleTalking "On Fire" with Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow
This article is part of our series 'Nice Song, What's It About?,' where we revisit old greats and go deep to get the stories behind them. To see the column's archive, click here.“On Fire” – the opening...
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