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Thursday Throwback: Big MountainBUY HERE My favorite year in music has to be 1994. Many musically historic moments occurred this year: Nirvana played their final concert, the Verbier Festival launched in Switzerland, Oasis’ Definitely Maybe became the fastest selling debut in the UK, the Eagles reunited for their Hell Freezes Over tour, Green Day revived Punk with their [...]
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Alt J: They’re Not NerdsGaining fans and friends worldwide at a profound speed, the blow-up UK band, Alt-J takes a minute to chat with us and invite us to watch their picture perfect live show at Los Angeles’ Bootleg Theater. Watching this foursome is like watching history in the making. With sounds reminiscent of Radiohead mixed with old Irish [...]
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TL Talks ‘Turntablism’ with C2CAfter 4 DMC World DJ Championships titles, sold out shows since January, and an all sold-out tour coming up this fall, French DJ foursome, C2C (Coups2Cross), is nothing shy of a groundbreaking team of table turners, producers, and life long friends. The hard-working group does good, and reveals what it takes to succeed in “turntablism.”
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Sigur Rós VIDEO: Ekki múkkThe life of a snail is metaphorical for human existence. Icelandic, ambient rock group, Sigur Rós creates a reality in which life at the micro-scale and macro-scale cross in their new video “Ekki múkk”–like a snail, the plain, discontent man wanders through field after identical field with no purpose until it finds another lost soul [...]
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Psy’s Gangnam Style Breaks World RecordBy now, you probably fall into one of the 275 million viewers (a new world record) who has seen Psy’s comeback viral video hit, “Gangnam Style“. Named after Seoul’s trendiest district, the addictive lyrics and beats of this catchy K-Pop treat is outdone only by the outrageous and over the top video, and the awesomely [...]
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Avan Lava @ Santos Party HouseLast.fm presents Avan Lava with Spirit Animal “AVAN LAVA’s live show was described as “a trippy MTV Europe Music Awards performance” with energetic sing-along pop tracks and slow R&B-Prince swooners, all while the band’s moves are choreographed by TC, Sonya Tayeh (So You Think You Can Dance / Madonna), Vanessa Walters (Fischerspooner).” Friday, September 21, [...]
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ATP Presents I’ll Be Your MirrorSeptember 21-23 Pier 36 New York, NY ATPFestival.com
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How To Dress Well: & It Was UBUY HERE Tom Krell is the one-man indie R&B show, How To Dress Well. In his sophomore album, Total Loss, the experimental Brooklyn-based singer leaves the heavy distortion in the past with his debut, Love Remains. Still, his shaky falsetto and polished sound remains among the reverb he is known for.
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Crazy Kimbra VIDEO: Come Into My HeadKimbra is no longer the girl we used to know as Gotye’s singing sidekick on his single, “Somebody I Used To Know,” which reached a whopping 320 million YouTube hits.
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Thursday Throwback: Nate DoggBUY HERE This week, we’re honoring Nate Dogg, Hip Hop’s hook man, who in his life (cut short by unfortunate complications from a stroke in 2011) helped define the G-funk sound of 1990s rap. With his smooth vocals on tracks of some of the genre’s most prolific cuts he garnered four Grammy nominations.
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Kanye West’s Cruel Summer VS Grizzly Bear’s ShieldsYou don’t need a personality test to determine what kind of music lover you are. Today’s rival album releases ask all the right questions for you: Does Kanye West‘s highly anticipated collaborative G.O.O.D. Music album, Cruel Summer get your beat-cravin’ blood boiling? Or do the swishing extravagances of Grizzly Bear move you to press “Buy?”
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The xx Returns: CoexistBUY ALBUM HERE BUY HERE Critically applauded indie-pop band, The xx returns with a well-awaited new album Coexist this week, a brilliant follow-up to their self-titled debut album. Since then, the band has lost a member – second guitarist and keyboardist Baria Qureshi left the group end of 2009 – but hasn’t lost [...]