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Listen to Polo's Beautiful and Sparse "Visions of Fortune"
Polo's music sits far away from their Yorkshire, UK based roots. I get that sounds strange, but when you consider the counties most famous exports are the Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs, and Alt-J it's both...
View ArticleRoots Manuva - The British Masters Season 2 - Chapter 4
In the fourth episode of this second series of British Masters, esteemed music journalist John Doran interviews Rodney Smith a.k.a. Roots Manuva, one of the most influential artists in British music...
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Russian Radio Is Trying to Silence Western Music
via YouTube Over the last couple of months, a crackdown on Western music has been going on in Russia, with two major FM radio stations focused on foreign language artists facing closure and legislators...
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ESTRONS Flip Female Objectification on Its Head on "Make a Man"
What is an estron? Apparently, if you're Welsh, it means "alien" or "stranger"—which makes sense because (a) ESTRONS were strangers when they first met on a beach in Wales and (b) they're kinda...
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Dream Big! Here's Carly Rae Jepsen's "Your Type" Video
So much of Carly Rae Jepsen's stellar album E•MO•TION feels like a fantasy unfolding, starting with the opening sax notes that seem to signal the beginning of a night racing through dark streets...
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Houston's Next Big Thing Is a Ten-Piece Band Called The Suffers
Photo by Daniel Jackson, courtesy of The Suffers There’s a burgeoning sound emanating from Houston that is hard to ignore. It’s not the swollen, baroque tenor that is the rap scene that deals with...
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Kali Uchis Returns to Her Colombian Roots in the Gorgeous Self-Directed Video...
Shot in Kali's home country, Colombia, the co-self-directed video for "Ridin Round" gives a colourful snapshot of Colombia that's pretty different to what you might have seen on TV. In Kali's world we...
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Meek Mill Is Still Haunted by the Ghost of That Drake Beef
It’s been four months since Meek Mill first unleashed the butterfly flaps of that one tweet which turned into a hurricane; one that resulted in probably the most documented rap beef since dial-up went...
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Thom Yorke: The Original Sadboy
All photos by Vincent Arbelet When Thom Yorke released Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes in August last year, his first solo effort in eight years, it was something of a premature birth. Unannounced and making...
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Most Wanted: Will.i.am Collaborates with Acclaimed Artist Xu Zhen to Create...
Black Eyed Pea, talent show mentor, and a man who once busted out a freestyle during our interview to the beat of a hotel fire alarm going off, has launched a sunglasses range in collaboration with...
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This Gainesville Lawyer Wants to Defend You for All the Dumb Shit You Did at...
A photo posted by @jeffrosenstock on Nov 2, 2015 at 8:41am PST Photo via Jeff Rosenstock Got your parents worried after that police officer arrested you for getting too immersed in the role with...
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Soldiers of Fortune: The Best Anti-Band in History
Photo by Sarah Richardson Soldiers of Fortune should not exist and they should not be good, in that order. They shouldn’t exist because they will never not shut up about how they started as an...
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All Hail: How Adele's 'Rolling Stone' Cover Destroys the Male Gaze
What does it say about a culture when it’s considered “daring” to put a woman on a magazine cover without the pretense of sex? Adele’s new Rolling Stone cover, a tangent to her breathlessly...
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Kim Kardashian Flew Me Across The World So I Could Meet Kanye and Attend Her...
This piece originally appeared on Noisey Netherlands Maik Leenards is one of the Kanye superfans behind @TeamKanyeDaily. For the uninitiated, this Twitter account and blog share every Kanye West...
View ArticleHot Sugar's Cold World - Part 2: The Sound of Silence in Tragic Rooms
In part two of Hot Sugar's Cold World, we take a glimpse at his public relationship with the rapper and singer Kitty, watch him at work writing music, and follow along as he and his intern attempt to...
View ArticleWeezer Drop New Song "Do You Wanna Get High?"
Woah. This is such old school Pinkerton vibes that it'll give you goosebumps. "Do you want to get high? / It's like we're falling in love / We can listen to Bacharach…" sings Rivers like a kid who...
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Lose-Lose: Fall Out Boy Is Playing the Canadian Super Bowl
The number one name you assosicate with professional sports is about to go international, as Fall Out Boy gets set to play the halftime show at Canada's Grey Cup in Winnipeg on November 29. Since...
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King Kunta's New Groove: Breaking Down Kendrick Lamar's Successful, Intimate...
Photo by Ilya S. Savenok / Getty Images Last night, Kendrick Lamar brought his intimate Kunta’s Groove Sessions tour to New York City’s Terminal 5. Marketed with throwback imagery, the tour has...
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Stream: Kool Keith & Brass (featuring Sinus) Late Night Jam ‘Swinger’s...
In 2003 legendary New York hip-hop performer Kool Keith was travelling the country on the 'Kool Keith vs. Australia' tour. After a night out on Sydney’s Oxford Street promoter Trent Roden and Keith...
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ACES Are On Cruise Control In Their Sublime Video for "I'm Already Gone"
Did you guys ever used to watch My So-Called Life? Well there's this great episode (ep 13) where Angela Chase finally starts making out with Jordan Catalano and he's teaching her how to drive in his...
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