Music
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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 to produce little else since the 1988 release of her…
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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 to be as different, exceptional, and free as they wished.…
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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 respect after the jump.
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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 read more about the collaboration at NPR.
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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” (whatever that means today). The arty group have gained notoriety…
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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. 2: The Heart Of Noise, which also features Primal Scream,…
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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 album: Le Bon establishes a strange, almost Dadaist lyrical scheme…
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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 it to support these venues and prevent high rents from driving…
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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 can never replace. Check out a full list of exclusive releases,…
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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, and is breaking through to much larger audiences. Pitchfork has…