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Rising: Chance the Rapper
Photo by Todd Diederich Chance the Rapper: "Good Ass Intro" [ft. BJ the Chicago Kid] on SoundCloud. Though much of the hip-hop currently coming out of Chicago largely disregards the city's...
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Articles: Still Crazy: Ten Years of the Exploding Hearts
The week that three members of Portland’s Exploding Hearts died in a car crash, I had planned to pick up two Stiff Records t-shirts at Norman’s Sound and Vision in New York: one for myself, and one for...
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Paper Trail: Writing the Record
At The Village Voice in the 1960s, pop music criticism was born as a self-consciously intellectual pursuit. Influential early critics Richard Goldstein and Robert Christgau were given wide latitude to...
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Ordinary Machines: Seen Your Video
Between the ages of 10 and 12, I spent many hours on the living room carpet, watching music videos in a particular contortion: finger hovering expectantly above the stereo's record button, neck...
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Guest Lists: Torres
Guest List features artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with other random bits. This time, we spoke with Nashville singer/songwriter Mackenzie Scott, aka Torres, whose...
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Articles: Deerhunter
Deerhunter, from left: Josh McKay, Lockett Pundt, Bradford Cox, Moses Archuleta, and Frankie Broyles. Photos by Robert SemmerEven when there isn't an audience, Bradford Cox is performing. It's an hour...
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Cover Story: Savages
Photos by Se YoungIn late February, Savages play a show at David Lynch’s exclusive Paris nightclub, Silencio. As the red velvet curtains open-- of course there are curtains-- the four-piece peer out...
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Guest Lists: Mikal Cronin
Photo by Denee PetracekGuest List features some of our favorite artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with other random bits. For this edition, we spoke with Mikal Cronin, a...
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Rising: Jenny Hval
Photo by Kristine Jakobsen Jenny Hval: "Mephisto in the Water" on SoundCloud. A couple of years ago, I reveled in broadcasting the smart provocations of Jenny Hval on my college radio show while...
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Articles: Vampire Weekend
Photo by: Alex John BeckBy Carrie BattanMay 7, 2013In January, an image purporting to be the cover of Vampire Weekend’s third studio album began circulating online. It was an Instagram-yellowed shot of...
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Update: These New Puritans
These New Puritans, from left: Elisa Rodrigues, Tom Hein, Jack Barnett, George Barnett Photos by Willy Vanderperre; in-studio photos courtesy of These New Puritans These New Puritans: "Fragment Two" on...
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Update: Surfer Blood
Photos by Frank MaddocksSurfer Blood frontman John Paul Pitts is resigned to the fact that people are going to hate his new record because of his other record. No, not Astro Coast, the Florida band's...
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Interviews: Four Tet
Photo by Jason EvansWhile known in some 90s-music circles for his work in the post-rock band Fridge, Kieran Hebden began to make more noise under his own project, Four Tet, at the start of the 21st...
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Cover Story: Daft Punk
Photos by NabilDaft Punk are standing on a helipad overlooking downtown Los Angeles as fireballs make their sequined suits glisten with hot heat. It's a few days before this year's Coachella, where the...
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Update: Holy Ghost!
Photo by Harry McNallyIt's an early evening in March as I make my way through the narrow corridors of DFA's recording studio, located at the basement level of the large West Village office building...
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Articles: Queue Up: 20 Essential Music Documentaries
Scanning Netflix’s documentary section to find a worthwhile music film has become a modern ritual of the 21st century music nerd. Through the database’s recommendations, it’s possible to discover a...
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Rising: Koreless
Koreless: "Sun" on SoundCloud. Yūgen is a key aspect of traditional Japanese aesthetics used to reference parts of life, art, and nature that evoke a mysterious yet profound sense of subtlety and...
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Paper Trail: Enjoy the Experience
“Vanity pressings are records made by believers,” writes Johan Kugelberg in his introduction to Enjoy the Experience. Judging by the hundreds of album covers reproduced in his book, the obscure artists...
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Articles: The National
Photo by: Deirdre O'CallaghanLaura SnapesMay 23, 2013One evening late last September, the National were minutes away from pressing record on the first take of what would become their sixth album,...
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Guest Lists: DJ Koze
DJ Koze: "My Plans" [ft. Matthew Dear] on SoundCloud. Guest List features some of our favorite artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with other random bits. For this edition,...
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