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Galinhas Polacas Cook Up Tacky Brazilian Punk
Galinhas Polacas, or Polish Chickens, are the last band you'd expect to find in Bahia, Brazil.
Bahia is the home of axé, a fusion of Afro-Brazilian and Caribbean...
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Jeneci — “Felicidade” (Music Video)
It disturbed me on some primitive, pre-conscious level to learn that Brazilian pop wonder Jeneci was promoting one four-minute music video with not one, but four...
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A Glorious Journey Through Time and Space: Top 10 Reissue Labels
The universe is infinitely rich beyond comprehension. Â If you don't believe me, try making a shortlist of reissue record labels. Â Keeping up with the number of cool...
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Niki & The Dove’s Swedish Noir Pop
Niki & The Dove are singer Malin Dahlstromm and multi-instrumentalist Gustav Karlof. They popped out of seemingly nowhere in 2010 with just one single and a b-side,...
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Brandt Brauer Frick Team Take on Handmade Techno for 2nd Album
Could there be a more apt name for a German experimental electronic classical music group than The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble?  Their Teutonic/orchestral name must be...
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Emika — “Pretend”
More than any artist we've come across recently, Berlin-based dubstep diva Emika's music communicates the inner life of the alpha female -- intimidating, drop-dead...
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When the music stopped: Storm Kills 5 at Belgian Festival
It only took ten minutes for a storm to tear apart stages at Pukkelpop Music Festival in Belgium last night, killing five and injuring 140 others. (NY Times).
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Dama do Bling Rules Moza Hip Hop
People call Dama do Bling ("Lady Bling") the Lil Kim of Africa, so it's not too surprising that she's embroiled in some industry beef. Â Since exploding onto the...
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Little Dragon @ Music Hall of Williamsburg: Swedish Electro-Soul Magic
These melancholy electro Swedes know how to please a crowd: by bumping up their studio album with house beats, and killing it with synth versions of 90s gems like...
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Kinky @ The Spot, NYC: Monterrey Electro Makes You Sweat
Kinky's hot electro-rock makes us sweat, so appropriate that when they stepped onstage at pop-up venue The Spot a few weeks back, the room was sweltering. But the heat...
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John Martyn Tribute Album
In this collection of 30 cover songs, artists as diverse as Bombay Bicycle Club, Phil Collins, and The Blind Boys of Alabama come together and somehow cohere into a...
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The RockTigers’ Kimchibilly is Hot
I can't even imagine the conversations that Velvet Geena, frontwoman of The RockTigers, must have with her Korean momma about her life choices. It's bad enough that the...
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The Hop Band Together For Le Hip Hop
Such a short name for a large band. There's 12 of 'em, including four producer/composers, three saxophonists, and two rappers. And a partridge in a pear tree.
Bu...
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Film Review: The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience
In an early scene of "The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience," a bearded, potbellied man wearing nothing but gold lame leggings is smearing the inside of his bellybutton...
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Emika entraps us with clip from upcoming album
Dark diva Emika is coming out with her anticipated debut album next month, and to get our appetites whetted she's released a clip of her song, "Pretend." Over glitchy,...
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Back From the Brink by Kourosh Yaghmaei
Back from the Brink launches listeners back to the free-wheeling days of pre-Revolution Iran, where a young Frank Zappa look-alike listened to Dylan LPs and remade psych...
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Grey Reverend Picks Apart Your Heart
It's not every day you're begging to have your heart broken. But that's you'll end up doing when you listen to Brooklyn singer-songwriter Grey Reverend. When the song...
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Rainbow Arabia’s Exotic L.A. Electro
Fact one: Rainbow Arabia borrow riffs and vocal styles from African and Middle Eastern music to propel their distorted '80s pop/Berlin techno amalgam. Fact two: They...
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Pustki Fill the Void With Alt-Pop
Although Pustki means "void" or "emptiness" in Polish, what stands out about the Warsaw-based quartet is their substance -- a clarity of vision and message not usually...
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Nicolas Jaar’s Moody Electronic Blues on MTV Hive
It's no wonder MTV Hive included Nicolas Jaar in their First Take series on emerging artists. The 21-year old Chilean New Yorker's moody music draws from the sound...