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Liz Wood
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Celebrate Lemmy This Saturday
Motörhead has announced that it will be livestreaming Lemmy Kilmister’s memorial service tomorrow, Stereogum reports. The ceremony itself will be held at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood on Saturday, January 9th, at 3 p.m. PT. Since the venue…
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Father John Misty’s “Pandora Promos”
The singer posted several “rejected” Pandora promos to his SoundCloud, and they’re more than a little great. Here’s one of the gems: Whether you’re snorting rails of Tide off priceless Matisse cutouts or stuck at home because of your dismal Uber…
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David Lowery Sues Spotify
The frontman of Camper Van Beethoven filed his second suit in favor of musician’s rights on December 28th, Pitchfork reports. The suit claims that Spotify published tracks without sufficient efforts to obtain copyright permission, and thus illegally distributed. This case adds…
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Rumpus Song Premiere: Sons of an Illustrious Father
The New York–based band premieres the song “Conquest” today on The Rumpus. The track is off their album Revol, which is upcoming on Big Picnic Records. Sons of an Illustrious Father is comprised of Ezra Miller, who you might remember from his roles…
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Saying Goodbye to Lemmy
2015 ended with us mourning the passing of legendary Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister. Now that some days have passed, we want to celebrate Lemmy’s career and legend with a round-up of tributes that have come out over the past few…
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Hip-Hop to Watch in 2016
Dazed Digital compiled a list of emerging hip-hop artists to watch, including Jay Boogie (think Mykki Blanco and the early 2000s), Tommy Genesis (on Awful Records, she describes her sound as “fetish rap”), Blaze Kidd (a London-based Ecuadorian rapper who plays with…
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This Week in Posivibes: One More (Great) List
Aquarium Drunkard put out their list of 2015 favorites and like many things they do, it’s pretty comprehensive, respectable, and a great way to catch great music that you’ve missed. Included in the list are Jessica Pratt, Yo La Tengo, Destroyer,…
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Return of Columbia House
The music subscription service is making a comeback, Stereogum reports, thanks to a bail-out from a former Lehman Brothers executive. You might remember Columbia House from junk mail offering twelve CDs for just a penny—tempting teens into joining a membership most notable…
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Erykah Badu on Cyberspace
Erykah Badu met up with okayplayer.’s program The Questions and the result is a meditation on what participation means in the digital age, among many other things. Watch the interview after the jump.
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This Week in Posivibes: Édith Piaf
This past Saturday marked Édith Piaf’s centenary. To honor the seminal French artist’s memory, the Guardian published a piece on her life, career, and music as they helped to define French music in the twentieth century. Read the full piece here and watch…
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Season of Lists
Now that the year’s end is approaching and Grammy nominations are official, everyone’s rolling out their “best of” lists. Pitchfork is one of the more obsessive cataloguers, weighing in with a best of albums, songs, music videos, lyrics… you get the picture.…
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The “Blurred Lines” of Copyright
The question of copyright infringement in Pharell Williams’s and Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines” has been raised again, following an appeal that the pair filed this Monday against the March decision that ruled against the use of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give…