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Watch a Time-Lapse Video of Animal Collective Making Strawberry Jam
A video has popped up on Animal Collective's Vimeo channel that covers the entire time the band was in the studio while they were recording their 2007 LP Strawberry Jam. It's nine minutes long and in...
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Lil Wayne to Publish Prison Memoir
Photo by Graeme Flegenheimer "I got through that sentence like a subject and a predicate" is about to take on new meaning. On November 28, Lil Wayne will release his prison memoir through Grand Central...
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Listen: Wavves Covers the Misfits
Photo by Lauren Dukoff MP3: Wavves: "Hybrid Moments (Misfits cover)" Last night, Nathan Williams of Wavves posted a lo-fi cover of the Misfits' "Hybrid Moments" on Twitter, "as an ode to the band"....
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Azealia Banks Collaboration With Machinedrum Coming Monday
Photos by Matt Barnes Rapper Azealia Banks posted on Twitter that she has teamed up with Machinedrum (aka Sepalcure member Travis Stewart). The collaboration, which Banks says is called "NEEDSUMLOVE",...
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fIREHOSE Schedule Reunion Tour
fIREHOSE, the band formed by Minutemen members Mike Watt and George Hurley (along with Ed Crawford) after D. Boon's death, is getting back together, as Consequence of Sound reports. They'll play a U.S....
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The Flaming Lips Enlist Bon Iver for Collaboration Compilation Album
Photo by Morgan Levy As previously reported, the Flaming Lips are working on a release for this year's Record Store Day that includes collaborations with Nick Cave, Neon Indian, Yoko Ono, and others....
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News in Brief: Nardwuar, Jonathan Toubin, First Aid Kit, Tanned Tin Festival
-- Beloved oddball interviewer Nardwaur is releasing a vinyl compilation and calendar called Busy Doing Nothing. It's out March 6 through Mint Records and features songs from Franz Ferdinand, the...
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New Lee Ranaldo: "Off the Wall"
MP3: Lee Ranaldo: "Off the Wall" Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo's solo album Between the Times & the Tides is out March 20 via Matador. Album cut "Off the Wall" is now available to hear above,...
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Watch Beastie Boys' Mike D. on "Colbert"
Mike D. of Beastie Boys made a guest appearance on "The Colbert Report" last night, but not to perform. Stephen Colbert invited him on to settle a recent disagreement between New York Times crossword...
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Listen: Cut Copy Remix the Rapture
The Rapture have solicited Cut Copy for a remix of "Sail Away", the opening cut from their latest album In the Grace of Your Love. It appears on the upcoming Sail Away EP alongside remixes of the song...
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New Release: Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, and the Congos: FRKWYS Vol. 9: ICON...
Artist: Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, and the CongosAlbum: FRKWYS Vol. 9: ICON GIVE THANKRelease Date: April 9 (UK) and April 10 (U.S.)Label: RVNG
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Kendrick Lamar Readying New Album
Photo by Loren Wohl Kendrick Lamar's Section.80 (our #45 Best Album of 2011) fell in some strange modern limbo between mixtape and proper studio album, as far as release avenues go. The rapper recently...
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Watch Björk's Biophilia Education Program in Action
Björk's Biophilia education program is another layer of the multi-tiered app album, consisting of a series of workshops for schoolchildren that explore the intersection of music and science. The first...
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New Dirty Three: "Rising Below"
MP3: Dirty Three: "Rising Below" Australian post-rock gods Dirty Three return with a new album, Toward the Low Sun, on February 28. It's the band's debut for Drag City, and their first record since...
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AraabMuzik Readies New Beats Comp
MP3: AraabMuzik: "Rubberband Stacks" MPC king AraabMuzik is putting out a new collection called Instrumental University. The record features instrumental versions of beats he's made for Cam'ron, Vado,...
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Johnny Jewel Talks Symmetry, Drive Music, Glass Candy and Chromatics LPs
Symmetry: Themes for an Imaginary Film Johnny Jewel is the frostily pumping heart of Italians Do It Better, a collective of bands with affinities for vintage film music and analog dance-pop. As...
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Hear Real Estate Play a New Song Live
Photo by Erez Avissar Real Estate performed eight songs today on WXPN's "World Cafe Live". The entire set is now available to stream on NPR's website. In addition to seven tracks from Days, the band...
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Katy B Tours North America
Brit pop-step songstress Katy B, whose excellent Katy on a Mission came out last year, is heading to North America. After a string of club shows, she'll hit SXSW and the Ultra Music Festival in Miami...
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Trent Reznor Writing New NIN Material
Since announcing a Nine Inch Nails hiatus in 2009, Trent Reznor's dedicated himself to film projects (the Golden Globe-nominated score for David Fincher's adaption of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,...
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Trent Reznor Writing New NIN Material
Since announcing a Nine Inch Nails hiatus in 2009, Trent Reznor's dedicated himself to film projects (the Golden Globe-nominated score for David Fincher's adaption of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,...
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