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Five Great Things I Saw at AfroPunk Fest 27 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
This past weekend in Brooklyn was AfroPunk Fest, the annual Brooklyn festival that showcases African-American artists and bands made up of mostly African-American musicians (a more eloquent, nuanced e...
Michael Jackson’s Estate May Face Millions in Federal Taxes, Penalties 27 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
Reuters has discovered some rather unsettling news about Michael Jackson‘s family. According to court papers, the IRS has claimed that Jackson’s estate undervalued the assets on his 2009 tax return — ...
Britney Spears Taps Charli XCX For New Track 26 Aug 2013 | 11:59 pm
According to an interview with Digital Spy at last weekend’s Reading Festival, Charli XCX has made the jump from working with rising Swedish pop singers to handcrafting a potential hit for Britney Spe...
Listen to Gary Burton & Julian Lage, Live on BBC Radio 3 26 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
Recent Jazz Pick of the Week vibraphonist Gary Burton put out a phenomenal album a few weeks back,Guided Tour, which teamed him up again with the inventive guitar style of Julian Lage. If you haven’t ...
Watch Footage From the Riot Fest Reunion of The Replacements 26 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
As dutifully reported by Slicing Up Eyeballs, The Replacements played their first set in more than two decades last night, treating the Toronto stop of Riot Fest to 23 songs, including covers of Sham ...
Download: Zola Jesus, “Avalanche (Slow)” 26 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
On her 2011 album Conatus, Zola Jesus’s goth-pop proclivities suggested a liking for the new-wave moods of Kate Bush. It’s a short distance from there to classical ornamentation, and she traverses it ...
Download: Holden Girls, “A Western” 25 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Hailing from the cathedral city of Ely just outside Cambridge, Holden Girls have kept the details behind their debut EP to a minimum. In fact, all we know about the band is that they have five members...
Download: Happy Hollows, “Endless” 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
In the three years between their debut album (Spells) and this summer’s Amethyst LP, Happy Hollows lost their drummer and switched their sound from a guitar-guided affair to full-on synth-pop. Maybe f...
Weekend Discussion: Which Maligned Records Do You Defend? 24 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
This coming Tuesday, Bob Dylan (who’s been showing up in an awful lot of Weekend Discussion lately, come to think of it) will release the 10th installment of his Bootleg Series, which — in classic Dyl...
Watch the First Official Video From Pearl Jam’s ‘Lightning Bolt’ Album 24 Aug 2013 | 01:35 am
Remember when Pearl Jam refused to do music videos for what felt like forever? Well they’ve hit the ground running with the first proper clip from Lightning Bolt, a rager that finds the band being as ...
