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Cojones Embarks on 2013 European Tour

Cojones Embarks on …

Cojones, a stoner psych, darkcore band ...

Marla Mase Releases Deluxe Edition of Her Album

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Marla Mase has released the DELUXE Editi...

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The Postal Service reunites for Coachella

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The Avett Brothers Perform 'Live and Die' & 'February Seven' on Jimmy Kimmel

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The Avett Brothers Announce the Release of Their Highly Anticipated Album 'The Carpenter'

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 The Avett Brothers perform Murder In The City on Conan

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Ryan Monroe of Band of Horses to Release Debut Solo Album June 12th (Watch Video)

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The Kills to Release Photo Book

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Beach House Adds New U.S. Fall Tour Dates & New Video

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Watch Bon Iver perform on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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Bon Iver performs on The Ellen DeGeneres Sh...

Jack White: How I Made 'Blunderbuss' (VIDEO)

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First Aid Kit sings Emmylou on Conan

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The Shins perform

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Jack White 'Saturday Night Live' Performance (Video)

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Jack White takes to the SNL stage. The two so...

Phish Summer Tour Announced

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The Shins to play Saturday Night Live

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Jack White to Perform on SNL & New Album Details

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Dr. Dog performs

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Dr. Dog performs That Old Black Hole off of t...

Of Montreal sings Dour Percentage on Fallon

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Of Montreal on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

New Video from the Cults:

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Spiritualized Announces 2012 Tour Dates

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Lana Del Rey impression on SNL

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Bon Iver performs

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Jack White Means Business

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First Brian Jonestown Massacre World Tour Dates Announced

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Coachella 2012 Lineup

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Spacehog Shines On In Gal…

"In the meantime..." they told us in 1995, and then they left us hanging. Following...

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Black Sabbath 13

Black Sabbath 13

  Black Sabbath 13 First New Recording by Original members in Over 30 years L. Paul Man...

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Crossroads -- Circle Of Unexisted

Crossroads -- Circle Of U…

Crossroads -- Circle Of Unexisted Circle of Unexisted are a strange band. No, I don't...

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Grown Up Avenger Stuff -- Sparkleton

Grown Up Avenger Stuff --…

Grown Up Avenger Stuff -- SparkletonFloener + the Thomson Machine. Yeah, jokes like that a...

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Cojones -- Bend To Transcend

Cojones -- Bend To Transc…

Cojones -- Bend To TranscendWhat's that I smell? Is that Indica or Sativa? Doom metal or g...

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POST - Fakes From Another Place

POST - Fakes From Another…

I don’t know about you, but I have always loved the type of artist who makes distinction...

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Cat's Park --

Cat's Park -- "Safety"

Cat's Park -- "Safety" A lot of artists get lumped together under the term "trip hop," ...

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Monks of Mellonwah - Neurogenesis EP

Monks of Mellonwah - Neur…

Monks of Mellonwah - Neurogenesis EP Monks of Mellonwah: best not to analyze the name. In...

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 Grown Up Avenger Stuff -- Alive

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Once upon a time, Flo got sick of the Machine and became a Queen of the Stone Age.Need mor...

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Tom Dyer -- I Ain't Blue Anymore

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Tom Dyer -- I Ain't Blue Anymore Like many of you, I didn't know what to think when I f...

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David Bowie’s Forgotten EP: Baal Thirty Years On

David Bowie’s Forgotten E…

David Bowie started the 1980’s on one of the greatest album runs in pop history, and end...

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Vulture Kult -- Don't Let Rock and Roll Ruin Your Life

Vulture Kult -- Don't Let…

Vulture Kult -- Don't Let Rock and Roll Ruin Your Life So much for assumptions. When ...

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Vajra - Pleroma

Vajra - Pleroma

Vajra - PleromaImagine for a moment that Tool decided to cover Dead Can Dance, and recruit...

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Who the Hell is Percy Thomas?

Who the Hell is Percy Tho…

  It's the 70th anniversary of the Stovall Plantation Recordings (aka The Complete Planta...

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Scarlet Hollow -- What If Never Was

Scarlet Hollow -- What If…

Scarlet Hollow -- What If Never WasIf your tastes fall squarely between Dream Theater and ...

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State Radio: Rabbit Inn Rebellion

State Radio: Rabbit Inn R…

Chadwick Stokes has had a pretty busy year. The State Radio frontman kicked off 2012 with ...

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Metric - Synthetica

Metric - Synthetica

I’ll be honest: aside from their contribution on the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack, I am not al...

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Ben Crane: Hay Fever

Ben Crane: Hay Fever

Hay Fever is a well-awaited debut for Crane fans, being the most innovative and erratic ni...

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Mat McHugh: Love Come Save Me

Mat McHugh: Love Come Sav…

Mat McHugh, better known as the frontman of The Beautiful Girls has just released his se...

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Marianne Faithfull: Twentieth Century Blues

Marianne Faithfull: Twent…

Criminally underappreciated, 1997’s Twentieth Century Blues is easily one of Marianne Fait...

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Spoek Mathambo: Father Creeper

Spoek Mathambo: Father Cr…

Oh, Sub Pop. For one of the best record labels in the world, your fans have pretty closed ...

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The Pines: Dark So Gold

The Pines: Dark So Gold

Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter tells a story centered around the life o...

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Bonnie Raitt: Slipstream

Bonnie Raitt: Slipstream

Bonnie Raitt is an interesting artist, albeit one I’ve often been critical of. She began r...

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Lee Ranaldo: Between the Times & the Tides

Lee Ranaldo: Between the …

No band in the history of rock has come up with as many consecutive winners as Sonic Youth...

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Foxy Shazam: Church Of Rock & Roll

Foxy Shazam: Church Of Ro…

What do you think of when you hear the name Foxy Shazam? I imagine a magic trick, or maybe...

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The Magnetic Fields: Love at the Bottom of the Sea

The Magnetic Fields: Love…

The Magnetic Fields are a strange band. Fronted by openly gay Stephin Merritt, who holds I...

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The Ting Tings: Sounds from Nowheresville

The Ting Tings: Sounds fr…

The Ting Tings, comprised of Katie White and Jules De Martino, are one of those bands that...

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Sleigh Bells: Reign of Terror

Sleigh Bells: Reign of Te…

When Reign of Terror was released to somewhat negative reviews, I didn’t know what to expe...

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Ben Kweller: Go Fly A Kite

Ben Kweller: Go Fly A Kit…

Ben Kweller has made a career out of the easy going Power-Pop. With his puffy cheeks and k...

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Air: La Voyage Dans La Lune

Air: La Voyage Dans La Lu…

La Voyage Dans La Lune is French filmmaker Georges Méliès’ classic film, translated in Eng...

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Paul McCartney: Kisses On The Bottom

Paul McCartney: Kisses On…

McCartney is a legend. He is clearly one of the greatest pop musicians of all time. It is ...

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Dr. Dog: Be the Void

Dr. Dog: Be the Void

It’s getting more and more obvious to me that years, musically, are like the Star Trek mov...

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Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas

Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas

  At 77 years old Leonard Cohen is a masterful elder. He’s been making music for 44 years...

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Lana Del Rey: Born to Die

Lana Del Rey: Born to Die

Well, I chose to give Lana a shot, and she failed me. Too bad, I guess. I stuck up for her...

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Bill Callahan: Apocalypse

Bill Callahan: Apocalypse

Depending on your previous experience with Bill Callahan, his 2011 album Apocalypse might ...

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First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar

First Aid Kit: The Lion's…

  A couple tracks into First Aid Kit’s The Lion’s Roar, I decided to start my “best of th...

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The Big Pink: Future This

The Big Pink: Future This

  The Big Pink is an English electro-rock duo who have garnered considerable acclaim for ...

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Guided by Voices: Let's Go Eat the Factory

Guided by Voices: Let's G…

Guided by Voices has never had problems coming up with albums that are packed with many sh...

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tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l

tUnE-yArDs: w h o k i l l

In 2009, Merrill Garbus (also known as tUnE-yArDs) released her first album,BiRd-BrAiNs. I...

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Cloud Nothings: Attack On Memory

Cloud Nothings: Attack On…

Dylan Baldi began Cloud Nothings as a low-fi side project. The music was pop-punk oriented...

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The Torn ACLs: Make A Break, Make A Move

The Torn ACLs: Make A Bre…

At first listen The Torn ACLs might not sound like the most impressive band on the radio. ...

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Foster the People Torch Genre Barrier

Foster the People Torch G…

In May 2011, Foster the People released their first studio album Torches, which moved soun...

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Magnolia Electric Co.: S/T

Magnolia Electric Co.: S/…

This is one of those albums you might purchase for the sole reason of the amazing cover ar...

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Grouplove: Never Trust a Happy Song

Grouplove: Never Trust a …

We’ve all heard the song on the Apple iPod Touch television commercial, you know, the one ...

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Kimya Dawson runs rampant with Thunder Thighs

Kimya Dawson runs rampant…

Kimya Dawson’s newest album Thunder Thighs goes beyond the Kimya we know and love to disco...

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Travel Through Time With Bob Dylan

Travel Through Time With …

Bob Dylan’s latest album Beyond Here Lies Nothin’: The Collection is a collection of the v...

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Amy Winehouse: Lioness: Hidden Treasures

Amy Winehouse: Lioness: H…

Lioness is not Amy Winehouse's long-lost gem or interrupted follow-up album, nor is it a...

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We Were Promised Jetpacks: In the Pit of the Stomach

We Were Promised Jetpacks…

Unrelenting, gut punching in your face rock n' roll. That's what WWPJP offers on their sop...

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Plants and Animals: Parc Avenue

Plants and Animals: Parc …

Straight out of Montreal, this trio brings a unique sound into the world.  Being their fir...

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EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints

EMA: Past Life Martyred S…

EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions) Early in the year, I listened...

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Please, Please, Please: A Tribute to The Smiths

Please, Please, Please: A…

Love or hate The Smiths, it’s a testament to their songwriting legacy that the B-side ...

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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo (Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ro…

Trailers for David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo present the vie...

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Foo Fighters: Wasting Light

Foo Fighters: Wasting Lig…

As the curtain opens on Wasting Light it is glaringly clear that his album is deeper in th...

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In Utero Remembered

In Utero Remembered

Most know Nirvana to be the parents of the bastard child that became grunge music. The fus...

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The White Buffalo: Lost & Found EP

The White Buffalo: Lost &…

There are some artists that you hope stay under the radar whether it be wanting to keep an...

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Crystal Stilts: Radiant Doors EP

Crystal Stilts: Radiant D…

Crystal Stilts have always been ahead of the contemporary indie pop learning curve. When...

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The Black Keys: El Camino

The Black Keys: El Camino

It behooves us to take 90 seconds here and figure out how this band got so popular and e...

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Wilco: The Whole Love

Wilco: The Whole Love

Wilco has often been characterized by their expansive and eclectic sounds, bouncing from h...

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Childish Gambino: CAMP

Childish Gambino: CAMP

It’s almost impossible to find an angle on Donald Glover that hasn’t already been covered ...

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Luke Cunningham: Heart Pressure

Luke Cunningham: Heart Pr…

While cutting his teeth on the southern tour circuit with his former band Part Time Heroes...

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Dave Stewart and friends at the Troubadour

Dave Stewart and fr…

  Dave Stewart and Friends Play Very Special Concert at the Troubadour Los Angeles L. Paul Mann   In what was billed as a very special night of music at the iconic Troubadour nightc...

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Coachella 20013 opening Day

Coachella 20013 ope…

  Behind The Scenes Opening Day Coachella Music Festival 2013 L. Paul Mann   One of the most prestigious and well organized live music gatherings in the world, the Coachella Music and ...

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Vans Warped Tour 2013 Kick Off Party

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  GIRLZ RULE ! Vans Warped Tour 2013 L. Paul Mann   Female vocalists and girl bands have always been a prominent part of the diverse line up that is the signature of the Vans Warped T...

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Aradia: Multi-talented Dark Core Songstress

Aradia: Multi-talen…

Aradia is a multi instrumentalist and songwriter hailing from Seattle, Washington. Her dark, beautiful and haunting talent started early in her life as she was classically trained ...

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There is a Fire Burning Down Under Dino Jag

There is a Fire Bur…

Dino Jag has had a long career in pop and enjoys affectionate notoriety in his native South Australia. He is one of those artists that has an internal switch that is set to ...

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Jacob Hales – Brooklyn’s Off Kilter Troubadour

Jacob Hales – Brook…

  Jacob Hales is an avant-garde and experimental multi-instrumentalist (including fluency in vocals, found and standard percussion, keyboards, and guitar) based in the heart...

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Interviews

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Haley Pharo

Haley Pharo

    Is Haley Pharo The Next Katy Perry? L. Paul Mann   Monday night February 25th was an unusually quiet night on Sunset Strip. But the legendary Viper R...

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Interview With Brendon Small

Interview With Bre…

    Interview With Brendon Small Creator of Animated Hit Series Home Movies and Metalocalypse Master Metal Guitar Player Has New Music Project Galaktikon L...

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An Interview with Peter Holmstrom of The Dandy Warhols

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The Dandy Warhols are a veteran band who have given their fans almost 18 years of great music.  I frankly reached a bit out of my realm to learn from and about ...

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CW Premiers New Pop Reality Show

CW Premiers New Po…

  Ultra talented Japanese born musician turned Hollywood pop star, Takao is the star of a new reality television show entitled, “Club Takao: The Making of a...

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The Postal Service reunites for Coachella

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VIA CONSEQUENCEOFSOUND.com The Postal Service have updated their website to simply read, “The Postal Service 2013,” all but confirming the rumors of their impending reun...

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The Avett Brothers Perform 'Live and Die' & 'February Seven' on Jimmy Kimmel

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Avett Brothers perform 'Live and Die' & 'February Seven' off of their new album The Carpenter on Jimmy Kimmel Live February Seven ...

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