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Jack Antonoff Is Writing A Book About ’90s CD Culture
Bleachers leader and behind-the-scenes pop collaborator Jack Antonoff is writing a book about '90s CD culture, so says The New York Times. The book, Record Store, will be published by Simon &...
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Avicii Announces Retirement From Live Performances
Aloe Blacc can wake up now because apparently it's all over. Avicii, the superstar DJ born Tim Bergling, has announced his retirement from live performance. In a lengthy note on his website, the...
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Stream Gallant Ology
Gallant is a young Los Angeles singer and Sufjan Stevens collaborator, and he's already proved himself to be a master of the sort of hybridized, sophisticated R&B that takes its cues from pop and...
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Lukas Graham Is The New Ed Sheeran Is The New Jason Mraz Is…
Lukas Graham loves singing about his parents, which is appropriate because your parents are about to be asking you if you've heard of Lukas Graham. And now you have, though surely you've encountered...
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The Black Market: The Month In Metal – April 2016
One of the themes that keeps cropping up in this column is the current underground metal scene's creative fertility. I keep turning to this subject because I'm boring and like to repeat myself, but...
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The Popstar Soundtrack Takes The Lonely Island’s Parody Of Music Industry...
Who is the greatest music video director of the YouTube era? Is it Nabil? Hiro Murai? Grimes? Grant Singer? Melina Matsoukas? Collin Tilley? Emily Kai Bock? Director X? All of them are masters of the...
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ABBA Performed For The First Time In Decades Last Night
After making a rare public appearance together earlier this year, Swedish pop legends ABBA performed together last night for the first time in 30 years. Original members Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn...
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The 50 Best Albums Of 2016 So Far
Veep, quite possibly the best show on TV right now, depicts a culture of Washington aides chained to their phones, sent scrambling to come up with an official response every time a new crisis erupts....
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Stream Deerhoof The Magic
Veteran San Francisco rock weirdos Deerhoof have released so many albums over their nearly two decades as a band that it can be hard to get an exact count, but The Magic is their latest, a follow-up to...
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Make Way For Zara Larsson, Sweden’s Latest Weapons-Grade Pop Export
Every four years, at the midway point between World Cups, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) holds the European Championship, a massive tournament in which all of Europe's top national...
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DJ Earworm –“Summermash ’16” Video
At the end of every year, mashup artist DJ Earworm releases a new installment of "United State Of Pop," a behemoth Girl Talk-type thing in which he splices together umpteen of the biggest hits of the...
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Watch Rick Astley Play His First US Concert In 27 Years
Rick Astley, the original rickroller himself, played his first official show in the United States since 1989 at NYC's The Box last night. (He played the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2008, but that...
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Band To Watch: IAN SWEET
"You don't let someone you love feel afraid," Jilian Medford sings on the opening track of IAN SWEET's debut full-length, Shapeshifter. Falling in love is terrifying in and of itself; realizing you've...
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Skewed VIEWS: The Huge Truth About Drake’s Record-Breaking Chart Run
There's no point anymore in trying to keep up with the records broken and set by Drake's VIEWS because its legacy further swells every week. Billboard tried to catalog the album's many historic...
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Summit –“Pale Moonlight Shadow”
If we could slap ye olde RIYL stickers on Bandcamp pages, maybe "like Justin Broadrick on the ISS remixing the last five years of metal!" would get pasted on I, Voidhanger's stream of Summit's...
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Watch Ariana Grande & Jimmy Fallon’s Snapchat Filter Video For “Into You”
Young pop queen Ariana Grande already had a video for "Into You," probably the best of the singles from her new album Dangerous Woman. But one video wasn't enough. And on last night's episode of The...
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Does Lil Yachty Suck?
When the New Jersey group P.M. Dawn came along in 1991, rap didn't know what to do with them. Here were these guys who seemed proud of being soft. They broke out with a song that sampled '80s...
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8 Memorable Moments From Primavera Sound 2016 Saturday
Saturday was Primavera Sound's final full night of music, and I expected it to be a pleasant comedown after Thursday and Friday's thrills. Instead, it was arguably the most physically and emotionally...
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Dark Forest –“The Undying Flame”
There probably are finer ways to slice this song from the forthcoming Beyond The Veil, Dark Forest's fourth full-length: NWOBHM, trad, power metal, etc. But, as lead guitarist Christian Horton said to...
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We’ve Passed Peak Vinyl – Here Comes The Collapse
From 1996 - 1999, I worked at a New York City record store called Rebel Rebel. I was a student at NYU when I got the job, and then I graduated from school but stayed at the shop. These were the Golden...
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