Music
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Song of the Day: “Too Small For Eyes”
The delicate, wounded sound of Kristine Leschper’s voice is the first thing that stands out from her band Mothers’s new release, When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired. Like a reed instrument, it trills and dips with a gentle dexterity…
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Torres’s Family Portrait
I’m constantly making up stories, and writing histories, even when I’m not putting them into songs.
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Steve Miller on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Accepting his induction, Steve Miller took advantage of the platform to share some suggestions he has for the organization. Publicly, he said “I encourage you to keep expanding your vision, to be more inclusive of women,” and to work more…
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This Week in Posivibes: Heartworn Highways
The documentary about the outlaw country scene of the ’70s is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with a very limited edition box set from Light in the Attic Records. The film showcases Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Young, David Allan Coe, Larry…
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Bruce Springsteen Protests Bathroom Law
Springsteen has cancelled scheduled concerts in North Carolina in what he called “the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.” The law bans transgender citizens from using…
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A History of EDM and Its Bubble
With Vegas DJs contemplating a turn away from the DJ superstar model of club life and festival attendance seeming less impacted than it was at the genre’s peak, talk has begun of EDM’s “bubble bursting.” In response, Pitchfork has mapped…
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Woops, Says Azealia Banks (Again)
After reading a spoof article where Sarah Palin was quoted as being a tad more incendiary than usual, Azealia Banks suggested via tweet that the former vice presidential candidate be sexually assaulted in a whole bunch of ways. Palin reacted by…
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Song of the Day: “Hey, No Pressure”
Anything you want your life to mean It can mean Hey no pressure …Ray LaMontagne sings on his gritty, head-nodding new single, “Hey, No Pressure,” a track that fully embraces the strains of Jimi Hendrix and psychedelia that rose to the…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #71: A Michael Bay Film Eating Itself
“Love,” then is not to be taken lightly here. It is being engaged at full force, megaphonically.
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First Show of the Guns N’ Roses Reunion
Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan played together for the first time in twenty-three years at the Troubador on April 1st, Stereogum reports. Recording devices supposedly weren’t allowed, but that of course didn’t stop a bunch of videos from showing up…
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This Week in Posivibes: A Tribute to ’80s New York
In a bid against HBO’s Vinyl over-romanticizing ’70s New York to the exception of other decades, the Guardian published a piece on why the ’80s were more important than popular fantasy seems to suggest. The profile covers the post-punk scene, heavy with nostalgia for nights…
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Like It’s Still 1999
Veruca Salt has released a video from their latest album that sounds, and looks, a whole like nothing has changed since 1999, the year their song “Volcano Girls” appeared in the self aware tube-top masterpiece that is Jawbreaker. This is a…