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Ladies First: Expert Witness with Robert Christgau
Welcome to Expert Witness with Robert Christgau, the self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics." He currently teaches at NYU and published multiple books throughout his life. For nearly four...
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Watch Tommy Lee Get Stuck Upside Down in His Flying Drum Coaster at Mötley...
via A stuntman and showman as much as a drummer, longtime Mötley Crüe stickman Tommy Lee has been whiling away the dates on the band's feed farewell tour inside of his patented Crucifly drum coaster,...
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D.R.A.M. Reflects on a Wild Ride with "1 Year"
Virginia rapper/singer D.R.A.M. had a pretty crazy 2015: rising from obscurity to respectable renown off the strength of two EPs and the bubbling regional hit "Cha Cha," only to have the soul of the...
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Style Rider: Grunge-Poppers Idle Bloom Stay Fresh-Faced and Caffeinated on Tour
via The Nashville music scene seems to just be blossoming. We’ve seen a ton of stars come out of the city (hey, Taylor), but there’s an underground network of rockers to take note of as of late. Meet...
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Coldplay's New "Birds" Video Is a Kaleidoscope Dream
One of the highlights of Coldplay's recently released farewell album A Head Full of Dreams is the peppy, new wave inflected second track "Birds." Today they've released a beautifully retro video for...
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Awful Records' Father and Ethereal Deliver an Emotional Cover of R&B Singer...
via Mýa is a great singer time seems to be forgetting, but those of us that remember the hits ("Case of the Ex," "My Love Is Like... Wo") need to keep her in the conversation, and this is exactly what...
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A Welshman, Swede and American Walk Into a Berlin Practice Space and Start a...
The origins of Plattenbau sound like the beginnings of a joke told by some drunk uncle. Holed up in a bleak East Berlin winter, Welshmen Lewis Lloyd and Swede Hans Tobias started a recording project...
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Watch Alabama Shakes' Blistering Performance on the 'Austin City Limits'...
Alabama Shakes released the album of their career last year with Sound & Color, and they're still burning down stages with singer/guitarist Brittany Howard's full-body exuberance and her ace...
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A Woman Alleges Chris Brown Punched Her; He Crassly Denies It
Chris Brown is trouble, and that's a tame way to describe the string of assaults, accusations, and probation violation incarcerations he racks up between albums. The latest: According to New York's...
View ArticleWhat Musicians Were Wearing and Sharing on Instagram This Week: The New Years...
Whatup 2016? I’m going to be busy these next few weeks correcting all my shit after still writing 2015. You know how that goes. Okay, enough small talk because it’s a holiday weekend and I’m still...
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Celebrate A$AP Yams by Buying a Book of His Best Tweets
The life of A$AP Yams was filled with the sort of wisdom that had the ability to change lives, and when he passed on January 18 of 2015, many people turned to his Twitter account to search out their...
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Dry January Whatever! Party on in The Crookes' Video for "The World Is Waiting"
It's amazing how being totally broke can really push the limits of one's imagination. At least that's what happened when it came to shooting the video for "The World Is Waiting" by Sheffield quartet...
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What Does Protest Music Look Like Today?: The Rebellion of Kendrick Lamar and...
Vince Staples, left, in the video for "Norf Norf" and Kendrick Lamar, right, in the video for "Alright." “King Kunta” isn’t exactly the definitive Kendrick Lamar song. On the surface, at least, it...
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The Resurgence Is Real: British Entertainment Chain HMV Sold One Turntable...
Photo via HayeurJF on Flickr. By all accounts, everyone made a killing from vinyl in 2015. As reported by The Vinyl Factory, HMV—the almost 100-year-old music chain that's constantly threatening to go...
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Here's an MP3 Player That Goes up Your Vag and Plays Beats to Unborn Babies
You know how everyone is always singing at pregnant women's tummies? The reason for that is interactions like singing and talking can help a baby's natural cognitive development in utero, but listen...
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Stream Hinds' Winter Oasis of a Record, 'Leave Me Alone'
Back at work already? Bummed out that you have to commute an hour and a half every day so you can sit in your frosty as fuck office, checking Twitter over and over to see when the lineup for this...
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How Meeting Lemmy Helped Save My Life
Photo via Wikipedia Drinking with Motörhead used to be a dangerous pursuit, as I discovered on a number of occasions during the noughties, and, as a friend of Lemmy’s publicist, I got to see the band...
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Harry Styles's Solo Career Could Be Huge Under Jay Z's Wing, but at What Cost?
For the uninitiated (and the un-American), "the ball drop" in New York’s Times Square signals the beginning of a New Year. Yet, depending on whom you ask, this year’s festive season heralded the...
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The Front Bottoms: Back on Top, for the First Time
Photos by Katherine Alex Beaven It’s a little after 5 PM in New York City and The Front Bottoms’ Brian Sella is sitting upstairs in Irving Plaza. It’s the first of two sold-out shows the band is...
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Celine Dion, Canada's Adele, Covers "Hello"
Photo via Celine Dion's official website Celine Dion is known for her powerhouse vocals, and is one of the best-selling artists of all time. Adele is known for her room-filling range, and her new...
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