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Articles: Primavera Sound 2013
Photos by Erez Avissar and Tonje ThilesenIt's not always a given that festivals act as an extension of their locale's identity, but this year it was especially unclear whether Barcelona's Primavera...
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Guest Lists: Majical Cloudz
Photo by Denis Nazarov Majical Cloudz: "Childhood's End" Two years ago, having just completed a degree in religious studies, Devon Welsh was living in the basement of his father's Ontario home. Like so...
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Show No Mercy: Deafheaven
Deafheaven: "Dreamhouse" I first saw Deafheaven live at SXSW in March 2011, a month before their debut LP Road to Judah’s release. They were part of a Profound Lore showcase at the tiny bar Lovejoys,...
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Overtones: Rap Game Pikachu
Overtones is a new column by Jayson Greene that examines how certain sounds-- a snare crack, a synth blob, a ghostly string sample-- linger in our minds and lives.If you were a gangsta rap fan who...
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Update: A$AP Ferg
A$AP Ferg is looking over a selection of sushi at Whole Foods in downtown Manhattan. I suggest the crispy crab roll, but he balks. He's been a pescataerian for a year, and he's still figuring out a...
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Rising: Airhead
Photo by Will ColbyElectronic artists are often a reticent lot, and initially, Rob McAndrews seemed to fit that stereotype. As Airhead, the 24-year-old producer released a few singles over the last...
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Guest Lists: Mount Kimbie
Photo by Chris Rhodes Mount Kimbie: "You Took Your Time" [ft. King Krule] on SoundCloud. Guest List features some of our favorite artists filling us in on some of their favorite things, along with...
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Interviews: The Lonely Island
Photo by F. Scott Schafer"We were doing fart jokes when you was sucking your mama's tit," boasts the Lonely Island's Akiva Schaffer at the close of the trio's third star-studded, pop-puncturing musical...
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Situation Critical: Eleanor Friedberger
Photo by Roger Kisby Eleanor Friedberger: "Stare at the Sun" on SoundCloud. Once a piece of music is etched onto vinyl or encoded into a stream of ones and zeros, it doesn't change. But everything and...
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Update: Fuck Buttons
Fuck Buttons: "The Red Wing" [edit] on SoundCloud. Man, give a band one taste of the Olympics and all of a sudden it's only working in four-year intervals. Next month's Slow Focus is the third album...
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Update: Julia Holter
Photo by Rick BahtoJulia Holter’s debut album Tragedywas based on the work of ancient Athenian playwright Euripides. Its follow-up, Ekstasis, was informed by an advanced syllabus of Greek classicism...
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Rising: John Wizards
John Wizards' John Withers and Emmanuel NzarambaJohn Withers is a uncannily modern figure. Hailing from Cape Town, South Africa, the 25-year-old is an internet-raised musical sponge, taking in a...
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Situation Critical: Thundercat
Photo by B+With new feature Situation Critical, we present artists with various life situations-- some joyous, some terrible, some bizarre-- to find out which songs, albums, or bands they would turn to...
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Paper Trail: Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
When Pitchfork ran a career-spanning interview with Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson in 2011 as part of our 15th anniversary, we noted, "One of these days, ?uestlove will write a memoir, and it will be...
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Articles: Fear of Music: Pussy Riot in New York
It's 10:30 a.m. on a sunny Wednesday morning in June, and I'm in a dim room on the fourth floor of the Brooklyn Museum with two members of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot, staring down a...
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Interviews: Sofia Coppola and Brian Reitzell
In 2010, Vanity Fair published a story that practically begged for a film adaptation. “The Suspects Wore Louboutins” gave the true account of a crew of wealth and fame-obsessed teenagers who...
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Update: Zola Jesus
Photo by Angel CeballosOver the last four years, Zola Jesus' Nika Roza Danilova has relentlessly chiseled away at her own sound. To observe the evolution up-close, consider the three versions of her...
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The Out Door: The Legacy of Loren Connors
In this edition of The Out Door, we delve into the legacy of one of the most inspiring underground musicians of the past 40 years, the guitarist known variously as Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, and,...
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Overtones: Kanye's Sold Soul
Overtones is a column by Jayson Greene that examines how certain sounds-- a snare crack, a synth blob, a ghostly string sample-- linger in our minds and lives."On Sight", the first song on Kanye West's...
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Articles: The Yeezus Sessions
Kanye West is one of the very few artists out there who can generate headlines with his album's credits. While the liners to Yeezus don't feature quite as many big names as previous Kanye productions,...
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