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South by Southwest Day 2: Thursday, March 16th
Day two of South by Southwest highlighted an outstanding array of performers. The weather improved a bit from the previous day, and there were no further signs of rain (it sprinkled the night before).Room 710 – Why? Why? began day...
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Lollapalooza Lineup Announced
Lollapalooza returns this year again as a summer weekend event in Chicago with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West, and Wilco headlining. Grant Park will also host Common, Manu Chao, Queens of the Stone Age, Death Cab for Cutie, Matisyahu,...
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Patton's Peeping Tom
Mike Patton's Peeping Tom has announced the tracklist to their self-titled debut, which will see release on May 30. Featuring a wide array of guest artists, from Kool Keith to Norah Jones, Dan the Automater to Massive Attack, the tracklist is as...
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South by Southwest Day 1: Wednesday, March 15th
Most major cities in the U.S. have a distinct feeling that will leave an imprint on your mind. Whether it's overwhelming height (New York City), seemingly endless sub-cities (Los Angeles), a quaint sense of comfort (Boston) or just a unique...
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Clor - Clor
Light and ShadowElectronic Pop music of the 70s and early 80s presented a hopeful yet bleek vision of the future by fusing mechanical rhythms, colorful synthesizers, and warm yet strangely distant vocals. Despite wearing their influences on their...
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Grizzly Bear - The Horn of Plenty
Patience Reveals BeautyGrizzly Bear’s The Horn of Plenty is a two-disc debut with one being the album and the other consisting of remixes. The oddity here is that there are nine tracks on the album and sixteen on the remix disc. The...
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Bril - Airless Alarm
Hit The Snooze ButtonThe boys of Bril have come barreling out of San Clemente, CA with the kind of angst that only four kids from Orange County would consider to be extremely intense. Bril is the kind of band you’ll overhear on the...
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Mellowdrone - Box
Enter the MellowdroneA few songs into their first full-length album Box, it’s apparent that Mellowdrone intended their sound to be a moving target, jumping freely between trippy, ambient grooves, edgy rock, folky guitars and energetic...
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