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This Week in Posivibes: Mary Margaret O’Hara

Mary Margaret O’Hara’s Miss America is one of those incredible albums worth resurrecting every few years, to ensure that it doesn’t get lost amid the discographies of more prolific artists. O’Hara has consciously decided…

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Prince, We Miss You

This has been a difficult year for our musical heroes. The loss of Prince has the world mourning, once again, an artist whose work gave listeners the strength and permission…

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Sound & Vision: John Congleton

Allyson McCabe speaks with GRAMMY-winning producer/engineer John Congleton about what it's like to make music in today's technological and economic environments, and the benefits of being open to adaptation.

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Sesame Street‘s Tribute to Phife Dawg

Elmo has stepped up to pay tribute to A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg, who passed away on March 22nd from complications relating to diabetes. Watch the red fuzzball show his…

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The Chaka Crew

Soul icon Chaka Khan and her siblings Taka Boom and Mark Stevens have put out their first collaborative effort in the song “House of Love.” Listen to the track via Shaboom and…

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Song of the Day: “Berlin Got Blurry”

Strangeness is not altogether a new concept for Parquet Courts, a NYC-based band that resists labels but falls somewhere between garage rock and post-punk, with an overarching sympathy for “indie”…

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Sound Takes: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

That historical context takes center stage right from the outset

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Snowden the Composer

Edward Snowden has been busy during his exile: the whistle-blower has been working on a single with French artist Jean-Michel Jarre. The single, “Exit,” will appear on the upcoming Electronic Vol.…

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This Week in Posivibes: Cate Le Bon

The Welsh singer’s fourth album, Crab Day, has a beautifully uncomfortable, displaced sound, as if each song’s eye were following just to the right of its own focus. Pitchfork says of the…

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A City’s Responsibility to Its Creative Spaces

Following the closure of Dance Tunnel, the latest in a slew of venues widely thought important to London’s club scene, a question seems to be emerging: exactly whose responsibility is…

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Record Store Day Is Approaching

Tomorrow a whole slew of releases, promos, and events are hitting locations across the country in celebration of all the great things about a local record store that the Internet…

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The Rise of Flex

The Brooklyn-based genre of dance music that has thrived since the ’90s is beginning to reach far beyond the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, which has housed dance competitions in the genre for years,…

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