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Listen to new Boards of Canada: “Reach For The Dead”
 
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Top 20 National Songs Expressed as GIFs
 
The Five Best and Worst Replacement Singers
The Five Best and Worst Replacement Singers
 
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Festival Review: Hangout Music Festival 2013
 
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Album Review: Daft Punk – <i>Random Access Memories</i>
 
Video: Kanye West on Saturday Night Live, debuts “Black Skinhead” and “New Slaves”
Video: Kanye West on <i>Saturday Night Live</i>, debuts “Black Skinhead” and “New Slaves”
 
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Kanye West premieres new single “New Slaves”, video projected around the world tonight
 
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The Perfect Fit: Which Summer Music Festival Is For You?

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Rock it Out! Blog: “The Worst Band Tattoos!”

By Sami Jarroush on May 23rd, 2013

What fan ink straight up stinks?

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Listen to new Boards of Canada: “Reach For The Dead”

By Staff on May 23rd, 2013

Our first taste of Tomorrow's Harvest is finally here.

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Webcast: Primavera Sound 2013

By Staff on May 23rd, 2013

Wu-Tang, Phoenix, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Postal Service, and more.

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Watch Arctic Monkeys debut new song “Do I Wanna Know?”

By Alex Young on May 23rd, 2013

Somebody's a fan of ...Like Clockwork.

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Listen to Earl Sweatshirt’s new track “Guild”; plus, he’s opening for Eminem

By Alex Young on May 23rd, 2013

Our latest taste of Doris.

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There’s now a Daft Punk racecar

By Michael Roffman on May 23rd, 2013

Need for Speed: Daft Punk Style

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Watch Caveman’s horrifying video for “In The City” starring Julia Stiles

By Jeremy D. Larson on May 23rd, 2013

Always check behind curtains in the hotel room. Always.

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Ty Segall announces summer tour

By Staff on May 22nd, 2013

A new U.S. leg in support of the forthcoming Sleeper.

Kurt Vile adds U.S. tour dates

By Staff on May 22nd, 2013

A late summer leg behind Wakin on a Pretty Daze.

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Julia Holter announces new album Loud City Song, streams first single “World”

By Alex Young on May 22nd, 2013

Plus, summer tour dates announced.

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Listen to Cold Cave channel Joy Division on their new song “Black Boots”

By Jeremy D. Larson on May 21st, 2013

Another dour one-off from the rejuvenated dark-wave band.

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Watch The-Dream and Kelly Rowland on Leno

By Staff on May 21st, 2013

A live performance of "Where Have You Been".

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Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest

Listen to new Boards of Canada: “Reach For The Dead”

By Staff on May 23rd, 2013

Our first taste of Tomorrow's Harvest is finally here.

arctic monkeys 2013

Watch Arctic Monkeys debut new song “Do I Wanna Know?”

By Alex Young on May 23rd, 2013

Somebody's a fan of ...Like Clockwork.

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Listen to Earl Sweatshirt’s new track “Guild”; plus, he’s opening for Eminem

By Alex Young on May 23rd, 2013

Our latest taste of Doris.

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Stream Deafheaven’s new album, Sunbather

By Staff on May 23rd, 2013

Bay Area metal outfit's sophomore LP arrives three weeks arrives.

Listen to Broken Social Scene and Years’ new song “Day Of The Kid”, off Arts & Crafts’ X compilation

By Chris Coplan on May 23rd, 2013

Slow and steady wins the race.

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Listen to Disclosure’s funky new song “When A Fire Starts To Burn”

By Staff on May 23rd, 2013

Another taste of the duo's debut, Settle.

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Album Review: Four Tet – Rounds [Reissue]

By Derek Staples on May 23rd, 2013

A look back at Four Tet's seminal third LP.

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Album Review: Come – 11:11 [Deluxe Edition]

By Sam Willett on May 23rd, 2013

Matador highlight returns with remastering.

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Album Review: Dead Gaze – Dead Gaze

By Dale W. Eisinger on May 23rd, 2013

Cats Purring Collective member collects the best of his back catalog for his debut...

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Album Review: Dirty Beaches – Drifters/Love is the Devil

By Jon Hadusek on May 23rd, 2013

The life and times of Alex Zhang Hungtai.

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Album Review: Majical Cloudz – Impersonator

By Sasha Geffen on May 22nd, 2013

Majical Cloudz's minimal arrangements ring with depth and warmth.

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Album Review: Laurel Halo – Behind The Green Door EP

By Paula Mejia on May 22nd, 2013

Listen closely.

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Live Review: Flying Lotus and Thundercat at Cleveland’s House of Blues (5/16)

By Derek Staples on May 18th, 2013

The many angles of Flying Lotus in full display.

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Live Review: Kurt Vile and the Violators at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall (5/14)

By Michael Roffman on May 15th, 2013

HAIR. HAIR. HAIR.

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Live Review: Paramore at The Chicago Theatre (5/10)

By Jeremy D. Larson on May 10th, 2013

Started from the bottom now they're here.

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Live Review: Foals and Surfer Blood at NYC’s Terminal 5 (5/4)

By Michael Zonenashvili on May 6th, 2013

Jumping off the balcony wasn't even the most rock-star thing about the night.

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Live Review: OMD at London’s The Roundhouse (5/3)

By Tony Hardy on May 5th, 2013

"...we end where we began at 16."

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Live Review: James Blake at Chicago’s Metro (5/2)

By Sam Willett on May 3rd, 2013

The UK producer exhibits maturity on his latest tour.

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Album Review: The National – Trouble Will Find Me

By Megan Ritt on May 17th, 2013

Unlikely optimism makes for a new kind of National album.

Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City
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Album Review: Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City

By Chris Bosman on May 13th, 2013

See through the Ivy and hear them deliver their most comprehensive effort to date...

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Album Review: Mikal Cronin – MCII

By Michael Roffman on May 6th, 2013

Ty Segall's partner-in-crime shocks us with his sophomore album.

Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 3
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Album Review: Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

By Jeremy D. Larson on May 1st, 2013

A universal language like nothing you've ever heard.

The Flaming Lps The Terrors
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Album Review: The Flaming Lips – The Terror

By Steven Arroyo on April 19th, 2013

How? Call it the R.A. Dickey method.

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Album Review: The Postal Service – Give Up

By Chris Bosman on April 12th, 2013

This 10th anniversary release reminds us of the album's enduring adolescent legacy...

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The National: A New York Institution

By Michael Roffman on May 22nd, 2013

Michael Roffman lives a day in the Empire City with its finest band.

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Interview: James Blake

By Sam Willett on May 23rd, 2013

You can take this with you: He's a big fan of online chess.

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Top 20 National Songs Expressed as GIFs

By Staff on May 22nd, 2013

Sometimes words just don't cut it.

Rock it Out! Blog: “#AreaCode – Selebrities”

By Sami Jarroush on May 22nd, 2013

Discover this Brooklyn indie-pop outfit with a performance and an interview.

Rock it Out! Blog: “Listening Party – Daft Punk, The National, 30 Seconds To Mars”

By Sami Jarroush on May 21st, 2013

Beer mixed with critical review.

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The Five Best and Worst Replacement Singers

By Staff on May 21st, 2013

You win some, you lose some, you forget some.

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Rock it Out! Blog: “The Worst Band Tattoos!”

By Sami Jarroush on May 23rd, 2013

What fan ink straight up stinks?

Rock it Out! Blog: “Happy World Goth Day!”

By Sami Jarroush on May 22nd, 2013

No, really, this is a real thing.

Rock it Out! Blog: “#AreaCode – Selebrities”

By Sami Jarroush on May 22nd, 2013

Discover this Brooklyn indie-pop outfit with a performance and an interview.

Rock it Out! Blog: “OK Computer Celebrates Its Sweet 16″

By Staff on May 21st, 2013

Nothing sounded like it then, and nothing sounds like it now.

Rock it Out! Blog: “What’s In Your Dream Box Set?”

By Sami Jarroush on May 21st, 2013

What songs, rarities, or videos would break open your wallet?

Rock it Out! Blog: “Listening Party – Daft Punk, The National, 30 Seconds To Mars”

By Sami Jarroush on May 21st, 2013

Beer mixed with critical review.

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Daft Punk Random Access Memories (Alternate Version)

By Jeremy D. Larson on May 20th, 2013

Daft Punk's Random Access Memories is so indebted to the past that you don't even...

Zoo Story: Y.N.RichKids Go Hard in the Finger Paint

By Jeremy D. Larson on May 17th, 2013

Ian Gilliam of Deep Purple once wrote a little note that explains why Y.N.RichKids...

The Day Room: Cold Cave and the Humanity of the Artist

By Philip Cosores on May 2nd, 2013

This message from Cold Cave’s singer and creative force, Wesley Eisold, intrigued...

Still Shattered: 10 Years After The Exploding Hearts’ Guitar Romantic

By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh on April 30th, 2013

I find it hard to listen to the Exploding Hearts without hearing some haunting melody...

Zoo Story: When Should We Moralize About Music?

By Jeremy D. Larson on April 26th, 2013

The black and white parental advisory sticker that Tipper Gore worked so hard to...

Stress Position: I hate Radiohead’s OK Computer

By Chris Coplan on April 22nd, 2013

Welcome to another installment of Stress Position, where we test a writer's patience...

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Rock it Out! Blog: “The Worst Band Tattoos!”

Watch Caveman’s horrifying video for “In The City” starring Julia Stiles

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Watch Empire of the Sun return to the stage, perform “Alive” for the first time

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