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The Week In Pop: The 18 Most Anticipated Pop Albums Of The Fall
We've been waiting all year for new albums from some of pop music's biggest names, and it's looking like many of them will finally arrive this fall. Probably. Maybe? Whether or not Q4 turns out to be...
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Geoff Rickly’s Collect Records Severs Ties With AIDS Drug Price Gouger Martin...
Collect Records founder Geoff Rickly (Thursday, United Nations, No Devotion) and the label's various bands were publicly distressed this week when news broke that millionaire pharmaceutical investor...
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Foo Fighters Recorded Five New Songs With Help From Ben Kweller
Foo Fighters had a few surprises in store for their headlining set at the second weekend of Austin City Limits. "'Cause who wants to do the same thing all the time?" Dave Grohl asked the crowd on...
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Puff Daddy & The Family –“Workin'”
Toro Y Moi mastermind Chaz Bundick also records straight-up dance music under the name Les Sins. His outrageously catchy track "Bother" was the best thing about Michael, the very good Les Sins album...
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Watch Future, T.I., Young Dro, & Rich Homie Quan Perform At The BET Hip-Hop...
Last night, BET broadcasted the BET Hip-Hop Awards, the network's second annual awards show. This one was notably low on both star power and drama; the only real news story to come out of it was...
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Father John Misty, Beach House, Hot Chip, And More Play Iceland Airwaves 2015
Last year, Iceland Airwaves had a climactic feeling to it. Since it takes place in early November, chances are it's one of the final festivals you can go to in a year. And as 2014 drew to a close,...
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Hailee Steinfeld –“Hell No’s And Headphones”
I was sooo fucking skeptical of Hailee Steinfeld -- I guess I still kind of am? I thought she was a Pretty Little Liar! But it turns out she was, like, nominated for an Oscar for True Grit when she was...
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Watch Killer Mike Speak At A Bernie Sanders Rally In Atlanta
Killer Mike has already officially endorsed Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, and tonight, as Pitchfork reports, the rapper introduced the presidential candidate at a rally in Atlanta (while...
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Q&A: Fufanu On The Iceland Scene, Damon Albarn, And Their Debut LP
After Reykjavik's Iceland Airwaves last year, I left Iceland with the music of one homegrown artist echoing through my head. The song was "Circus Life," the band was Fufanu -- a group that I'd wound up...
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Human Rights Foundation Asks Nicki Minaj To Cancel Angola Concert
The Human Rights Foundation has asked Nicki Minaj to cancel an upcoming concert in Angola, where she is scheduled to perform on Saturday as part of a Christmas festival sponsored by Unitel. Unitel is a...
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Laurie Anderson Is Playing A Concert For Dogs In New York Tonight
Laurie Anderson is a longtime fixture in the experimental-music world and Lou Reed's widow. And she's also a dog person. As Pitchfork points out, Anderson is playing a concert in New York's Times...
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ABBA Make Rare Joint Appearance At Mamma Mia! Restaurant
The opening of an ABBA-inspired restaurant was enough to bring all four members of the Swedish pop group together for the first time since the film premiere of Mamma Mia! in 2008. Now in their late...
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Rihanna’s ANTI Hits #1 In Week 2
Releasing ANTI via a million free TIDAL downloads may have been enough for Rihanna to weasel her way into a platinum record certification, but the release strategy didn't count towards Billboard's...
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The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die –“Katamari...
One of the many good things about being a fan of The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die is that you'll never have to wait too long for new material from the band, as they're...
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Silent Shout Turns 10
It doesn't take a lot to see that the Knife's 2003 single "Heartbeats" served as the blueprint for a lot of modern pop music. That's not to say that the sort of electronic churn that synthesized on...
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Watch Dave Grohl Play “Blackbird” For Oscars’ In Memoriam
It turns out that Dave Grohl's previously announced "special performance" at the Oscars was an acoustic rendition of the Beatles' "Blackbird," which he played during the Academy's annual In Memoriam...
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Modern Baseball –“Apple Cider I Don’t Mind” + “Everyday”
"It's not like me to forgive and move on/ Always looking back on my mistakes," Brendan Lukens sings on the "Apple Cider I Don't Mind," one of two songs we're getting from Modern Baseball's forthcoming...
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Stream Kendrick Lamar’s Surprise Release untitled unmastered.
Kendrick Lamar has just surprised-released a new collection called untitled unmastered. Details of the project (it's officially being called a "project" and not an album) surfaced earlier tonight when...
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Premature Evaluation: Kendrick Lamar untitled unmastered.
Kendrick Lamar can do anything right now. When he was following up good kid, m.A.A.d. city, he could've done the easy prestige-rap things -- rapping about struggle over churning Eminem-style beats,...
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The Arcs –“Watch Your Step” (Bobby Parker Cover)
The Arcs, lead Black Key Dan Auerbach's new band, have been steadily cranking out new music ever since they released their debut album Yours, Dreamily last year. And as previously reported, they're one...
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