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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,...
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Moombahton 101: How Dembow Married Dutch House & Diplo Got Boobs
We can say this with confidence: in 2012, no song will be safe from a moombahton remix. And that’s not a bad thing.
Over the last few years, moombahton has blasted...
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Rwandan Electopop It Girl Iyadede Falls to Earth
In her catchy manifesto "The Girl Who Fell to Earth" Rwandan singer Iyadede (full name: Sabrina Iyadede) references the cult classic starring David Bowie and grabs a bit...
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Porcelain Raft — Strange Weekend
Mauro Remiddi’s solo work, which he writes and performs as Porcelain Raft, floats with urgency – yeah, it’s a contradiction I’m still working out.
The Italian-born...
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Gabriel Teodros — Colored People’s Time Machine
Gabriel Teodros has 4,700 Facebook friends, and on January 6, most of them wrote him happy birthday on his wall. And he must have not gotten to do much else that day,...
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Zechs Marquise — “Everlasting Beacon of Light”
Mars Volta sibling band Zechs Marquise's new video for "Everlasting Beacon of Light" off their recently released sophomore album Getting Paid is like one of those epic...
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Cut It Up & Eat It: The Bloody Soul of Le Butcherettes
Words by Siddhartha Mitter
If you came for the severed pig’s head, you’re too late.
Ditto, possibly, for the blood-stained butcher’s apron -- though Teri Gender...
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Zakee — “Snakes”
"Snakes" is one of the most ethereal tracks on Zakee's debut album Assimilations and the new video takes us to a spiritual sort of place. Crooning gently and looking...
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User Manual by Tunde Olaniran Ft. Miz Korona
In the song "User Manual" off his EP The First Transgression, Michigan-based electro auteur Tunde Olaniran plays the anguished anti-hero trapped in a confusing...
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10 Unimaginable International Collaborations That Really Happened In 2011
Collaboration is a kind of magic. Two distinct creative worlds coexist for a moment, providing a glimpse into a new artistic possibilities. And how much cooler is it...
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Natural Traits by Ernest Gonzales
Ernest Gonzales, known as the lucha libre mask-donning San Antonio producer Mexicans With Guns, shed the guise and the moniker once more for his latest LP Natural...
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Los Rakas — “Sueño Americano”
Capping off what’s already been a ridiculously impressive and productive year, hip hop act Los Rakas bid farewell to 2011 with a sharp, socially-minded cut that might be...