Music
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Omar Souleymon Pledges to Help Syrian Refugees
The Syrian-born musician has issued a statement committing himself to helping those fleeing the current crisis in the country, dedicating all of his shows in the immediate future to the cause of the refugees’ safe travels: Began in March 2013…
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This Week in Posivibes: Iron Lung Records
The Seattle-based label has been putting out some incredible punk records lately, most recently the much-anticipated Positive Energy LP from East Berlin’s Diät. Founded by the band Iron Lung, which has been playing and making records in the West Coast hardcore punk…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #68: A Way of Life
The thing about Scott Tuma is: the immense pathos of the recordings… Almost no one, frankly, is allowed to sound this sad and continue to have a musical career.
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New Song from The Mantles
San Francisco/Oakland’s The Mantles have released “Police My Heart” in anticipation of their upcoming record, All Odds End, coming out on Slumberland on October 16th. Listen to the song after the jump.
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Kurt Vile, New Order, and Peaches
This Friday is full of much-anticipated releases, such as Kurt Vile‘s b’lieve i’m goin down, New Order‘s Music Complete, and Rub by Peaches. There are also new albums from CHVRCHES, U.S. Girls, Girl Band, Dungen, Wand, and Fetty Wap. Find a comprehensive list of…
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Rose McGowan the Pop Star
Dissatisfied with the sexism of Hollywood, the scream queen has been thinking about a pop career for some time now. Rolling Stone quotes McGowan on the motivation for her switch in creative milieu: I woke up one day and realized I hated…
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Song of the Day: “Mannish Boy”
“I’m a man,” Muddy Waters growls on this hard-driving blues song. But in the next breath he sings, “I’m a man-child.” The subtleties of this message are often lost on audiences (and maybe even the artist himself). This is no…
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Sound Takes: Let’s Knife
Analysis fails before this mysterious amalgam of silliness and sublimity. Or maybe I’m just a sucker for songs with cat whiskers in them.
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Ode to Half Dome
Toro Y Moi released the video for his single “Half Dome,” and it’s a trippy and sometimes gorgeous tribute to the eponymous rock formation in Yosemite National Park. The video circles around Half Dome and travels to some of the park’s…
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This Week in Posivibes: The Zion Travelers
Aquarium Drunkard has unearthed another incredible rerelease in 1996’s The Dootone Masters from Ace Records. Based in the LA area for over two decades, The Zion Travelers put out their first record on Atlas in 1947 and eventually came to the Dootone…
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But Beautiful: My Life with Billie Holiday
I had to look back at the late nights when her voice has sung me out of sadness to sleep, back to those Saturday afternoons of my childhood, and ask myself what I had learned from her, as a musician…
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Dreams of Jodorowsky’s Dune
In the long list of things we wished had happened, there’s a Dune directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. It would star Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, and Orson Welles. Pink Floyd was going to do the music and H.R. Giger would handle designs.…