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Line-Up Announced For Aboriginal Music Week
An international summit of Native American, Inuit, Métis and indigenous musicians is returning to Winnipeg. As it does every year Aboriginal Music Week 2o12 (October 30...
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Noize MC Takes Action As The Antidote To Despair
At a small shelter in New York City's serene Central Park a knot of close to 70 people gathered for an unusual hip-hop show. Russian rapper Noize MC performed...
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Chicago’s Young Smoke Footworks In The Space Zone
At just 18, Young Smoke of Chicago is readying a debut release of futuristic footwork that bears all the best hallmarks of youth. That is to say, he sounds fresh. Get...
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Diplo’s “About That Life”: Okay, But Who Is Jahan Lennon?
Diplo's dabbling in more lo-fi vibes with "About That Life" featuring Jahan Lennon.
Jahan Lennon is Jahan Zeb Malik, PO PO's erstwhile leader, and his Diplo collab...
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No Spill Blood Spews Mutant Prog Punk With Synthesizers
Name: No Spill Blood
Where They're From: Dublin, Ireland
When They Started: 2012
Genre: Prog Punk
Most Similar: Adebisi Shank, Lightning Bolt, The Mars...
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Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Goths It Up In “Fashion Monster” MV
It was only a matter of time before J-pop iconoclast Kyary Pamyu Pamyu went on a punk rock tear, but we never dared to dream it would be like this. The creepy-glam video...
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Black Lips Rock For Peace In The Middle East With Lazzy Lung
Atlanta garage punks Black Lips are touring the Middle east with stops in Cyprus, the UAE, Jordan and Lebanon, with Lebanon's Lazzy Lung opening. On September 21st...
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From X.O Senavoe With Love
Name: X.O Senavoe
Where He's From: America/Ghana/Nigeria
Genre: Hip-Hop
Most Similar: E.L., Naeto C., M.I.
Sounds Like: A rebel without a pause, or a...
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Konshens: Dancehall Dream
We respect Konshens' music, business acumen, a social conscience, all of which we discussed in depth in our Q&A with the globe-circling dancehall artist and label owner....
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Tame Impala Goes All Glo-Fi In “Elephant” Video
This may be using the term glo-fi here pretty loosely, or maybe ignoring the actual denotations entirely, but darn it if it isn't the hyphenated sub-genre term that...
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Enter The Dub Champions Festival
Dub will have its day in NYC this week (Sept. 20-24) when the Dub Champions Festival breaks out across the city. Presented by New York's own Subatomic Sound label and...
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Itz Tiffany Releases Press Play EP
Our fave azonto diva Itz Tiffany just dropped her EP Press Play worldwide! Now available on iTunes, it's stocked with sultry party tracks like "Akyee Wo" and features a...
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Ane Brun Draws the Line With “These Days” Music Video
Norwegian songwriter Ane Brun gets a big impact out of a few squiggles in this new video for "These Days" off her recently released album It All Starts With One. The...
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Cinematic Sound: 10 Music Movie Moments That Will Live Forever
(From Selena, Credit: Getty Images)
Cinema and popular music, two modern art forms that were made for each other. If you love music and you love movies, the...
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Iyadede’s House Of Style
Rwanda-born/Brooklyn-based pop auteur Iyadede is a woman of many talents. In addition to being a genre shuffling songwriter and performer, she also designs clothes and...
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The Music Experiment: Of Monsters And Men Rock
Old Fashioned romance and vaudevillian flair was the order of the evening as Of Monsters and Men took the stage for the first concert of the Music Experiment, presented...
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Peelander-Z Announces US Tour
Color-coded Japanese/extraterrestrial punks Peelander-Z will be headed out from their base of operations in Brooklyn for a US tour with Tokyo garage veterans Electric...
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Skip Skip Ben Ben Gazes Into The Noise
Name:Â Skip Skip Ben Ben
Where They’re From: Taipei, Taiwan
When They Started: 2009
Genre:Â Let's go with noisegaze.
Most Like: The Velvets at their...
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Throwback Thursday: Forgotten Factory Records Gem Shark Vegas
We all love Joy Division and New Order. Some of you weirdos even like Happy Mondays. But Factory Records, the Manchester label that launched those groups, goes way...
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Castratii’s Dark Dream Pop Is So Heavy
Name: Castratii
Where They’re From: Sydney, Australia
When They Started: 2007
Genre: doomy, doomy dream pop
Most Like: Blonde Redhead, Cameras
Sounds...