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Joy! Balún Releases A New EP For Xmas
It's a surprise Christmas present! Tropical tinged dream pop band Balún gave their fans three delicious new songs without any prior warning yesterday. Breezy and...
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Top 10 Reasons Why We Are So, So Ready for 2013
2012, let's not even get into it. You are over and we are really fine with that. Barack Obama got re-elected and, hopefully, we'll never have to think about Mitt...
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Video Roundup: Best of 2012
If the hype is true and the world is coming to an end, at least 2012 was a kick ass year for music videos! Artists from around the globe created innovative small screen...
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Zuzuka Poderosa’s Got A New Jam And It’s Psicodelic
New anything from Brooklyn-stationed baile funk/global bass empress Zuzuka Poderosa tends to put us in an altered state, but the Nego Moçambique remix of "Psicodelia"...
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Homemade Indie Rock Courtesy of Brooklyn’s Buke and Gase
Name: Buke and Gase
Where They're From: Brooklyn, NY
When They Started: 2007
Genre: Indie rock
Most Similar: Dirty Projectors, Deerhoof
Sounds Like: ...
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With “Is What It Is” Ninjasonik’s Telli Remembers DJ Mehdi
Ninjasonik is known for their raucous shows, but on "Is What It Is" we get to see a slightly different side of one half of the duo. On this new one from from Telli...
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Global Goth: 10 Tunes To Keep It Creepy This Halloween
Is goth the new black? It’s seem like everyone from J-pop princess Kyary Pamyu Pamyu to the US's Jhene Aiko is adding a touch of creepy to their videos. Maybe it's...
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Family Band — “Moonbeams”
Two skeleton lovers skateboard, swim and stroll the graveyard in folk duo Family Band’s video for “Moonbeams.” Fittingly bone-chilling, the song features singer Kim...
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PSY Gets Favela-Funked
"Is it Christmas already? No? Then why is the universe giving me this present?" you might ask yourself, upon encountering this blog post.
PSY - the Korean artist of...
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CHECKPOINT: Is Afropunk the New Black?
Words by Zoy Britton. Images by Elaine Hargrove.
The sound of what seems like thousands of 30 plus-cm skateboard wheels slapping against wooden skate planks rise...
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Pop Montreal Festival Line-up Announced
There are a lot of music festivals for discerning fans to choose from lately. But this line-up would definitely make Pop Montreal 2012 (Sept 19-23) one of those...
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Antibalas: And The (Afro)beat Goes On
Afrobeat. Fela Kuti. The Shrine. Egypt 80.
Chances are, these days, that at least one of those names is familiar to you. Before Antibalas appeared on the scene in the...
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Tricky and Gangsta Boo Remix Zebra Katz’ “Ima Read”
Diplo's new prize Brooklyn MC Zebra Katz is releasing his single "Ima Read" feat Njena Reddd Foxxx on September 16 through Mad Decent imprint Jerfrrees. With it will be...
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Along Came Meridian with their Indie Magic
Name: Meridian (Bradley Valentin & Yohimbe Sampson)
Where They're From: Brooklyn, NY
Genre: Alternative rock-soul
Most Similar: Lenny Kravitz (circa Let Love...
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Sleigh Bells Ride Into The Sunset In “End Of The Line” Video
One of the most beloved tracks off Sleigh Bells' second album Reign of Terror, "End of the Line" pricks the heart with its whispery and wistful take on a totally...
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WORLD PREMIERE: Balkan Beat Box — “Money”
The Israeli-American culture mashers behind Balkan Beat Box are back with a new single, “Money,” off their 2012 album Give. With a soundtrack of spare beats and dubby...
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Get Trippy With Indie Veteran Sinkane
Name: Sinkane
Where He’s From: New York by way of Ohio by way of Utah by way of Sudan
Genre: Pysch-rock with an afropop twist.
Most Similar: Shuggie Otis,...
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Xenia Rubinos — “Hair Receding”
Brooklyn-born indie rocker Xenia Rubinos chronicles the life of Carmen, a seemingly ordinary older woman, in “Hair Receding.” Rubinos admires Carmen’s “positivity” and...
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Ricky Blaze Has Got The Gift
Young producer and solo artist Ricky Blaze is turning 24 on the day he picks up the phone for MTV Iggy, and he's got plenty to celebrate. The Brooklynite's latest...
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Artist of the Week: Xenia Rubinos and Her Bag of Trix
After a week of hardcore clicking, fans of Xenia Rubinos, the Cuban-Puerto Rican American making mathy, bizarro beats akin Micachu and the Shapes, tUne-yArDs. Apparently...