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Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra Reinvents Indie Music For Salseros
Name: Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra
Where They're From: New York City, USA
When They Started: 2009
Genre: Salsa for heepsters
For Fans Of: El Gran Combo, TV...
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Drop the Lime: As EDM Explodes One DJ Gives Rock ‘n’ Roll a Spin
Where groups like LCD Soundsystem have brought electronic music into the rock shows, few electronic music DJs have experimented with bringing rock 'n' roll into the...
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Uproot Andy and Geko Jones Debut Que Bajo Records with “Worldwide Ting” Mixtape
Que Bajo?! is not just the number one tropical music party in New York City, it's a heavy contender for best tropical music party in the world. Resident DJs Uproot Andy...
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Gazelle Sets the Pace with “R.U.N.”
Name: Gazelle
Where He's From: South Africa
When He Got Started: 2012
For Fans Of: Freshlyground, Santigold
Sounds Like: Mellow funk-infused South African...
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Deen Burbigo: Changing The French Rap Game
Name: Deen Burbigo
Where He’s From: Marseille, France
When He Started: 2003
Genre: French rap
For Fans Of: Nemir, Blackapar
Hip-hop is a universal...
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Flutronix Bring Out the Wicked Side of Woodwinds
Name: Flutronix
Where They’re From: Brooklyn, NY
When They Started: 2010
Genre: Urban art pop
For Fans of: Radiohead, A Tribe Called Quest, Hubert...
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Travel the Musical Universe With Clementine & the Galaxy
Name: Clementine & the Galaxy (Julie Hardy and Mike MacAllister)
Where They’re From: New York
When They Started: 2012
For Fans of: Chairlift, Miike Snow,...
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Passport Approved: 10 of Our Favorite Multinational Bands
Back in the day when snail mail was a thing (remember that?) The U.S. Postal service ran a service where you could apply to get a pen pal from another country. While the...
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Numasbala’s Latin-Afro-Ska-Funk-Pop
Name: Numasbala
Where They're From: New York City, via Guatemala and Colombia
When They Started?: 2010
Genre: "Sacudón"
For Fans Of: Cultura Profética,...
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TECLA: Tropical Pop For The Technicolor Future
What are the chances that Tecla Esposito's parents would name her with the Spanish word for a piano key, and then she would grow up to be a keyboard tickling...
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Did Someone Say Colossal Mantis? That Changes Everything!
Name: Colossal Mantis
Where They're From: New York, NY
When They Started: 2011
Genre: Dance, Electro, Trip-hop, Down-tempo
For Fans Of: Totally Enormous...
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My Punk Rock Hangover Cure: Brooklyn’s The So So Glo’s
Saturday mornings can be a struggle, and this past one was no exception. After a wild night at the Bauuer and Just Blaze show on Friday, I awoke at a friend's apartment...
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Zuzuka Poderosa Is Ready To Show the World Her Beautiful Carioca Bass
Zuzuka Poderosa's bio is a lot like the story of global bass music itself. The Brazil-born, Brooklyn-based bass vocalist is inspired by baile funk but her music has...
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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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Is There Life After Das Racist? Relax, Dapwell Says, Yes, There Is.
This is it. Das Racist broke up. It seems like everybody just needs to do their own thing, right? Kool A.D. (Victor Vasquez) is manifestly launching a solo career. Heems...
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Feels Like The First Time: Iceland’s Steed Lord Stays Innocent
With their flamboyant stage wardrobes, arty videos and theatrically minded dance pop, Iceland's Steed Lord personifies high-concept glamour. But it isn't just an image,...
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Thornato Stirs It All Together
Name: Thornato
Where He’s From: New York City
When He Started: 2009
Genre: Pan-awesome dance jams
Most Similar: Uproot Andy, Diplo
Sounds Like: 808s and...
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Seri Rains Down On The Dance Floor
Name: Seri
Where She's From: Vancouver, Canada
Genre: vocal trance
Most Similar: Nadia Ali, Eva Simons
Sounds Like: A night you'll never forget
Seri loved...
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A Lesson from Lamin Fofana: Africans Are Real
Name: Lamin Fofana
Where He’s From: New York, via Sierra Leone and Guinea
When He Started: 2010
Genre: Futurist Afro-Techno
Most Similar: Spoek Mathambo, Chief...
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DJ Venus X: “I Like Strippers and I Like Reading Books”
Venus X is magical. One moment, she’s throwing a sweat-choked warehouse party full of vampiric superfreaks in an abandoned tortilla factory, the next, she’s providing...