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Forget Nirvana, Pearl Jam Was the Most Influential Band of the 90s
A few years ago, I interviewed Tom Delonge at an Angels & Airwaves show. He made sure to tell me about how he has always drawn his influence from the 70s’ mod scene, the band The Jam, and the...
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Youth Code's "Anagnorisis" Carries More Bite Than You Are Ready For
If a movie like The Doom Generation was made in 2015, you can be damned sure every cool and brooding teenager would be moving to Youth Code while seething in nihilist pain. Youth Code is a band out...
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Watch Future's New Video for "Stick Talk"
To say it's been a crazy year for Future is an understatement. In the span of a little over a year, he's had five releases in Beast Mode, Monster, 56 Nights, DS2, and What a Time To Be Alive. With all...
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Rank Your Records: Idlewild Rank Their Seven Records
In Rank Your Records, we talk to members of bands who have amassed substantial discographies over the years and ask them to rate their releases in order of personal preference. Back in February,...
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Anderson .Paak Takes Us into a New Reality, and We’re Down for the Ride
All photos by Julia Hannafin In the very near, very bright future, about-to-blow R&B singer Anderson .Paak will fill your screen—a screen hoisted in the grips of VRC’s virtual reality headset...
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Roman Nails Makes Twisted Stone Age Techno
If you're the type to sip from the rich vein that is Australian underground music, odds are you've come across Cooper Bowman's work. Aside from curating one of Australia's longest running and best...
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Witches and Rebellious Women: Why 'The Craft' Continues to Kick Ass
Teenagers, and in particular teenage girls, have always been connected to magic and witchcraft. In Massachusetts in the 1690s it wasn't middle-aged men who had their urine baked into a witch cake by...
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Autopsy Can't Stop, Won't Stop Grinding Skulls
Autopsy carved death metal a new asshole with their 1989 debut, Severed Survival, before outdoing even themselves on their 1991 follow-up, Mental Funeral. Led by vocalist/drummer Chris Reifert—who had...
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Locrian's Terence Hannum Runs Down His Favorite Iconic Horror Soundtracks
Photo courtesy of Terrence Hannum Earlier this summer, Locrian released one of 2015's most unsettling albums in Infinite Dissolution. It's horror lie in its beauty, in its ability to effortlessly...
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Watch the Gorgeous and Disgusting Video for "S.W.I.M" from Lowly
Have you even seen a video as gorgeous and repungent as this? I mean, seriously. Look at the it. We're introduced to creepy crawlies slithering in and out of brussel sprouts. We lay our eyes on flies...
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PREMIERE: Dance in Your Office, the Streets to Neonderthal's Video for "The...
I first saw LA quartet Neonderthal performing on a rooftop during Downtown's Art Walk. The tiny space and adjoining apartment were packed, and lead vocalist Steven Mathew’s Bowie-esque wails could be...
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Yes, Si, Ja, Oui, HELL Yeah: There's a New Jeremih Song Called "oui"
Yes, Jeremih is one of our greatest living musical treasures. Sí, él tiene una nueva canción llamada "oui." Oui, c'est la meilleure chose du monde. "Oui," of course, is French for "yes," which is the...
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Social Media Star Turned Singer Maggie Lindemann Talks Outsider Pop and...
Maggie Lindemann's reputation precedes her. Much like Halsey, before her music career got off the ground, 17-year-old Lindemann spent years using social media platforms like Tumblr and Instagram to...
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An Interview with the Guy Who Mashed Up Kanye West with the Horror Classic...
For most people, associating two things simply makes for a mere moment of amusement. For Joshua Chaplinsky, of Queens, New York, it became an opportunity to craft a timely mashup featuring the history...
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Whoa, The Game Has a HUGE Dong!
Photo via The Game on Instagram In celebration of his new double album The Documentary 2 slapping the charts, rapper The Game took to his Instagram to show off his 357 Special. What is there to say?...
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PREMIERE: Tiptoe into a Dark Night with LA Rapper Nocando's Intoxicating...
Photo by Kav As Los Angeles rapper Nocando prepares the follow up to his 2014 album Jimmy the Burnout, he's released a flurry of loosies to warm the buzz, from the Isaiah "Ikey" Owens tribute...
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Wildhood's Video for "Double Dark" Is All Kinds of Creepy
So the blurb goes: "Wildhood is a project birthed from rebellion. We go into the studio and make what we want. We love all sorts of music. We like poetry, Radiohead, and ginger biscuits. My name's...
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Listen to the Gnarly Funk of LNDN Drgs' "Susan," off Their Upcoming Free Album
LNDN Drgs, the duo of Vancouver producer Sean House and Compton rapper Jay Worthy, have an ear for the weird and the funky. It's helped land them with the similarly minded label Fool's Gold, which...
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195 Orgasms and 45 Minutes of Crying: Eugene Mirman Releases the Most Absurd...
via Sup Pop Eugene Mirman's comedy often incorporates elements of performance art and that sentiment is certainly present in his new nine-volume, seven-LP box set I'm Sorry, (You're Welcome) which...
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Watch Two Performances from Converge's Upcoming Live Collection 'Thousands of...
Seeing a Converge set is like nothing else in music or hardcore: The crowd and the pileups become just as active a participant in the emotion and energy provided by the band, literally displacing a...
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