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“Love, Hate, Nostalgia, Whatever” with Hello Seahorse!
Latin music fans might be disappointed to see that just a tiny number of Spanish-speaking acts were booked this year for Coachella. But at least the ones they booked are...
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Rubblebucket Crushes the Funky Hippie Competition
Equal parts funk, psych rock, electropop, and big band, Rubblebucket specialize in wowing live audiences with their irrepressible stage groove and West African...
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LIGHTS: Still Nerdy, Still Hot, Still Ready To Pop
LIGHTS has been a member of Canada's elite for years. After winning "Best New Artist" at the 2009 Junos for her electronic-splashed, self-made pop tracks, the red carpet...
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Theophilus London — Timez are Weird These Nights (The Remixes)
Before we even get to the music, we'd be remiss not to mention that Theophilus London has outdone himself with the marketing for his new remix album -- to wit, every...
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Best Coast Serves Up a New Album…and a New Thick Skin
A second album seems like a challenge for Best Coast. After snagging surprise fame and spurring a lo-fi beach trend with Crazy for You in 2010, their own act is a tough...
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Zebra F-ing Katz Schools The Fashion World, The Rap World, and…Just The World
Name: Zebra Katz
Active since: 2007
Sounds like: Spank Rock, Odd Future, Andre 3000
Rapper and performance artist galore Ojay Morgan, aka Zebra Katz, is on fire....
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Getting Trippy With Bam Bam in Monterrey, Mexico
Name: Bam Bam
Most Like: MGMT, Astro, Banda de Turistas
When They Started: 2007
Genre: Mexican Psych-Rock
The Sound: The British Invasion if it was sung in...
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Bassnectar — Vava Voom
The first time I saw Bassnectar live was about six or seven years ago in Manhattan's Lower East Side, sharing a stage with Sub Swara. Between the seizure lights and...
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Yamantaka // Sonic Titan’s Audio-Visual Satori
Can rock 'n' roll save all beings from suffering? The answer may lie in the work of Canadian music and art collective Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. The group's creative...
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S/T by A Tribe Called Red
Canadian First Nations DJ collective A Tribe Called Red put themselves on the bass map in 2010 with an electrifying fusion of dubsteb and tribal drum circle music. They...
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10 International Artists to Watch at SXSW 2012
Yes, it’s that time of year again: SXSW is upon us. Even though there will be a zillion bands in attendance (that’s the official count), you are guaranteed to hear...
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Meet the Queens of SXSW
SXSW is historically a very dudely affair. Unless goers deep-dive into the brainmelting lineup, their experience will mostly include brosephs, beardos, and...
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Splendor Squalor by Xray Eyeballs
Xray Eyeballs's debut album Not Nothing was a fuzzed-out stylistic achievement, a dark garage punk confection, a perfect gingerbread miniature decorated in black...
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Give by Balkan Beat Box
Balkan Beat Box broke out of NYC’s music underground in 2005 with a crazy, novel sound: Mediterranean-inflected bass with a dizzying array of influences, making for an...
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Brooklyn’s Porcelain Raft Navigates a Sea of Dream Pop
Porcelain Raft's music is so post-everything: post-masculine, post-national, post-shoegaze. Meaning: Mauro Remiddi's pretty bedroom project sounds very right now: equal...
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Toronto’s Keys N Krates Remix Right Before Your Eyes
It's hard to find the club hip hop drops that make you say "daaaamn" these days, but in Toronto, an ever-burgeoning trio known as Keys N Krates giveth, and not even...
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Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads by Dustin Wong
We hope Dustin Wong never learns to read music. It might ruin everything. Like countless great musicians, Wong studied art before playing in the art-rock band Ponytail...
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US Guitarist Dustin Wong Dreams and Plays In The Moment
Dustin Wong is an unlikely candidate for a guitar hero. An art school grad, born in Hawaii, raised in Japan, currently in Brooklyn, Wong doesn't read music, but he...
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Hey Girrrl, Astronautalis Will Buy You Gold Teeth
We continue our rockstar love confessions with a man who once told us he got caught "sleeping shirtless with a girl behind the vending machine at the Thunderbird Motel...
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Laza Morgan’s Next Generation Crossover Reggae
Laza Morgan makes the kind of reggae jams you could almost take home to meet your mom. Almost. His tracks like "Crank It Out" have the gleaming surfaces and clean,...