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What’s It Really Like to Play at the AFL Grand Final?
The announcement this week that Canadian rocker Bryan Adams is to headline the 2015 AFL Grand Final’s pre-game entertainment was met with the usual heckles and jeers of the AFL getting it wrong and...
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PREMIERE: NOTS - "Reactor"
Memphis based band NOTS come from a good lineage. Their debut albums is licensed from legendary label Goner, who were home to Jay Reatard, Ex Cult, and The Oblivians, among others. So it's not...
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Creator David Chase Revisits the Music of 'The Sopranos'
Just before the moment that would precede its end credits and immortalize its place in television history, the 2007 series finale of The Sopranos introduces one last crucial character: a jukebox. Its...
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Listen to The Cribs Scuzzy New Song "I Wish I Knew You In the 90s"
The Wakefield, UK, band of brothers hit the road in the US today in support of this year's killer LP For All My Sisters, and to celebrate the carnage to come they've given us this rambunctious new...
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Watch Kendrick Lamar Perform the 'To Pimp a Butterfly' Medley You've Been...
Although Kendrick Lamar dropped what's widely been considered one of the records of the year in To Pimp a Butterfly, his live set lists this summer have still largely consisted of material from his...
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Did Kendrick Do an Impression of Drake During Last Night's 'Late Show'...
As we've already reported, Kendrick delivered a grandiose spectacle on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, with a medley of "Wesley's Theory", "Momma", "u", and "King Kunta." But it's the...
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This 75-Year-Old Burning Man Grandma Is Killing It
Barbara Ann Peterson lives in a senior citizen community in Florida, as 75-year-olds do. Like many seniors, she has six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, and can talk your ear off. But unlike...
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PREMIERE: Driftoff's "Straphanger" Is a Model of Excellence in Heavy Music
Photo by Diego Bazan Driftoff is a rock band from New York City that eschews the different genres of post-hardcore and rock into one killer blend. The band is set to release their new EP Modern Fear...
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Kiss 'Alive' Turns 40: A Second Grader's Odyssey
It's so easy to shit on KISS these days. There are haters abound what with Gene Simmons' widespread douchebaggery, scabs occupying spots in the group with makeup and costumes which aren't theirs,...
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Alex Metric Drops a Banger: "Drum Machine" Featuring The New Sins
Round of applause for this first tune from Alex Metric's forthcoming EP, Ammunition Pt. 4 (part one was released back in 2012). It's a splendidly minimalist number that'll send your limbs into...
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Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson's Video for "Are You Sure" Will Make You...
Kacey Musgraves may be best known for sassy, tongue-in-cheek bangers like "Follow Your Arrow" and "Biscuits," but as she shows here, homegirl sure knows her way around a mopey barroom ballad....
View ArticleHell Yes! Christine and the Queens Teams Up with Tunji Ige on "No Harm Is Done"
I'll lap up anything Christine serves, frankly, but this pairing is not one that anyone would've seen coming round any corner, in any part of town. Christine–the voguing French pop star in sleek...
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The Mantles' New Song "Police My Love" Will Bring Fun to Your Cold Heart
Sometimes having fun is a hard thing to do. You might have a lot on your plate or something, and in a moment you'll feel overwhelmed or super down, generally bummed out. So you should find moments of...
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Why Do Heavy Metal and the Dutch City of Tilburg Work So Well Together?
Neurotic Deathfest, image: William van der Voort Tilburg is a raw city—ugly, people sometimes say. There are no canals or no quaint plazas, and the beautiful old buildings are usually accompanied by...
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An Open Letter to the Person Who Stole My iPod: Please Let Me Explain My...
Dear Noted and Widely Reviled Criminal, If you’re reading this, it means you stole my iPod and are a sonofabitch. Congratulations. I don’t know why someone would steal an outdated piece of technology...
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Watch The Flight of Sleipnir's Expansive and Doomy Video for "Nothing Stands...
Flight of Sleipnir is a band from Arvada, Colorado that play a crushing blend of progressive and doom stricken metal that wil capture your attention. Their new record V takes every element of intense...
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It's a Belebration, Listen to Tinashe and Young Thug on "Party Favors"
We already know Young Thug is a fan of “Good Times” and it would appear Tinashe is too with her new doozy of a track “Party Favors.” Off her upcoming album JOYRIDE, the rising R&B/pop songstress...
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We Need to Retire the Word “Bitch"
Last week in pop news, Nicki Minaj cussed Miley Cyrus out live on stage at the VMAs and the whole internet lost its shit, which is what the internet does best. Let’s just call it The Beef That...
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No More Secrets: Squashing Sexism In Music and Why This Is Just the Beginning
A couple of weeks back music writer Jessica Hopper asked her nearly 30,000 Twitter followers a simple question: “Gals/other marginalized folk: what was your 1stbrush (in music industry, journalism,...
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Rank Your Records: Mindless Self Indulgence's Jimmy Urine on Antagonizing The...
Photo by Claire Marie Vogel 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...
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