Music
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This Week in Posivibes: Peacers
Mike Donovan has founded a new band, Peacers, with a record slated for release July 17th on Drag City. As a founding member of Sic Alps, Donovan shaped and helped create the San Francisco garage-psych scene that yielded so many…
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Albums of Our Lives: Les Savy Fav’s Go Forth
It’s one of those records I’ve glued to a pedestal, like people do with torrid weekend affairs or their favorite dish at Denny’s.
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The Runaways and the Bystander Effect
Former Runaways bassist Jackie Fuchs came forward last week with an account of being allegedly raped by Kim Fowley after a New Year’s Eve show at the start of the band’s career. The article discussing her experience included accounts from…
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New Order’s Music Complete
New Order’s first album in ten years, Music Complete, has been slated for release in September on Mute Records for some time, and the band has now shared a full track list, short trailer for the album, and European tour dates. Band member…
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Inaugural Lil Weezyana Fest
Lil Wayne has announced the first Lil Weezyana Fest, coming to New Orleans this August 28th at Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square. In an interview with Q93.3FM, Lil Wayne purportedly said the festival’s artists will be announced over the…
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Sound Takes: Deep Below Heaven & Rumpus Video Premiere
Featuring an exclusive video premiere for Melaena Cadiz’s “Deep Below Heaven,” and an in-depth look at the new album.
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Song of the Day: “Strange Brew”
Since the Wu Tang Clan introduced their own version of the word in the 90s, “cream” has come to be associated with the almighty dollar bill. But the first musical act to popularize the word was probably the supergroup formed in 1966 by…
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New Video from The Telescopes: “You Know the Way”
The brilliantly genre-avoidant The Telescopes are releasing a new album, Hidden Fields, on Germany’s Tapete Records this August, and it’s looking like the band’s eighth full-length won’t disappoint. Samples of three of the record’s songs premiered via Tapete this May,…
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This Week in Posivibes: 20 Years of Brown Sugar
In light of all that D’Angelo has done and is doing for music and activism, okayplayer. featured a chronicle of Brown Sugar over the years, following the evolution in D’Angelo’s live performance of its material from debut through its soultronic…
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Supergroup Alert: Broken Bat
Ty Segall has joined up with Red Kross’s Steven McDonald and Melvins’s Dale Crover to release a teaser of a half-track for the new supergroup project Broken Bat. The song, “Take My Medicine,” is up on the Broken Bat bandcamp…
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The Rumpus Interview with Frederic Rzewski
Composer Frederic Rzewski talks about his masterpiece The People United Will Never Be Defeated, writing and playing classical music, and performing his music in an unusual venue—a fish market.
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Rumpus Video Premiere: The Size Queens’s To The Country
An exclusive video premiere of The Size Queens’s To the Country, a two-song sampler featuring the titular track, “To The Country,” along with “Hands and Knees.”