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Black Lips Release New Live Album on Jack White's Third Man Records
Back in June, Black Lips performed a live set at Jack White's Third Man Records in Nashville. That set was recorded and has been released this week as The Black Lips Live at Third Man, available on...
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El-P to Release Instrumental Version of Cancer 4 Cure
Big fans of El-P's latest album, the excellent Cancer 4 Cure, will get a chance to revisit the release in a new form. He'll release an instrumental version through Fat Possum on October 23. You can...
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CMJ 2012: Joey Bada$$ / Pro Era
Photos by Erez Avissar The name of this showcase at the Manhattan hip-hop stop SOB's was "Remember When Rappers Could Rap?", a title that evokes nostalgia on a purely visceral level. A quick scan of...
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Michael Stipe to Judge Animated GIF Contest
If you thought Robin Pecknold scoring a film about LOLcats was e-ridiculous, then you might want to sit down for this one: A post on R.E.M.'s official site notes that Michael Stipe is sitting on the...
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Three-Day Passes for Pitchfork Music Festival Paris Sold Out, One- and...
Pitchfork Music Festival Paris is just two weeks away! Three-day passes for the event, which takes place November 1-3 at Grande Halle de la Villette, are now sold out. But if you didn't get a...
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R.I.P. Saxophonist David S. Ware
Photo by Christian Ducasse, via David S. Ware's website NPR reports and his official website confirms that saxophonist David S. Ware passed away yesterday at the age of 62 in New Brunswick, New...
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CMJ 2012: Sky Ferreira
Photos by Ben Sklar Twenty-year-old Sky Ferreira is one of very few artists to play CMJ after releasing a handful of big-budget, major-label pop singles. CMJ is not so sturdy of a launching pad...
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CMJ 2012: Icona Pop
Photos by Ben Sklar For the Icona Pop novice, their live show is an excellent starting point. The duo's act is deceptively simple: They stand onstage beside one another in high-fashion, all-black...
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Willis Earl Beal Joins Cat Power Tour, Cancels Headlining Shows
Photo by Jamie-James Medina In what seems like a very logical pairing, Chicago singer-songwriter Willis Earl Beal will join Cat Power for some of her fall tour dates. They kicked off a chunk of North...
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Legendary Disco Producer Giorgio Moroder Makes a Soundcloud, Uploads Rarities
The name Giorgio Moroder is probably familiar to you. He's one of the most influential producers of all time, one of the architects of disco. This is the guy who made Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" and...
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New Album From the Knife Will Feature Light Asylum's Shannon Funchess
It doesn't appear that the Knife's long-awaited new record will come in 2012, as initially rumored. But here's a nice little album factoid to tide you over, perhaps: According to an interview she did...
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The Prodigy Reissue The Fat of the Land
This whole EDM thing that the kids are all worked up about these days? To some people, it's just the second coming of the "electronica" boom of the mid-90s. Leading the charge back then was the...
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Jawbreaker Announce 20th Anniversary Reissues of Bivouac LP and Chesterfield...
While Jawbreaker's Blake Schwarzenbach is busy with his new band forgetters-- whose debut full-length is out November 13 (!)-- Blackball Records is prepping 20th anniversary reissues for two of his...
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Watch Swans' Crushing Live Performance of "Apostate"
The deluxe edition of Swans' new album The Seer comes with a live DVD. Here's footage of Swans performing the epic closing track "Apostate" shot from a zillion different odd angles, directed by Marco...
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Download Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire's New Mixtape, The Man in the High Castle
New York underground-to-major-label leaper Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire has a bone to pick with Universal Music Group: "So I had this tape I wanted to drop but my label fighting me cuz they hate me to rap...
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Watch: Grizzly Bear Return to "Jools Holland"
Grizzly Bear's late-night TV circuit for Shields continues with another appearance on the British program "Later... With Jools Holland". Here, the band plays "A Simple Answer". Watch it below. And...
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CMJ 2012: Miguel
Photos by Ebru Yildiz I've always thought Miguel to be something of an unconvincing Casanova; he's at his best when he's being glib, as in: "Do you like drugs? Me too… I wanna do you like drugs...
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P.O.S. Cancels Tour
Minneapolis rapper P.O.S. has postponed his entire fall tour due to an emergency kidney transplant. His hometown date on October 26 is still on. Below, watch a video of him explaining his health...
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CMJ 2012: Unicorn Kid
Photos by Ben Sklar Oliver Sabin, the 20-year-old Edinburgh producer known as Unicorn Kid, is a boy wonder who is hard to pin down. At 17, he was making elongated, jittery 8-bit tunes that could be...
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Today: Come to Pitchfork and MoMA PS1's Unofficial CMJ Event With Andy Stott,...
Today, Pitchfork continues its string of unofficial CMJ events at MoMA PS1. From 3pm to 6pm, we're presenting performances from Andy Stott, Chairlift, and Doldrums in the VW Performance Dome (22-25...
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