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Sound Discovery: Ultra 2012
As part of Sound Discovery, our ongoing collaboration with MSN as your guide to music festivals, we had writer Caroline McCloskey and photographer Michael Schmelling give their own personal rundown of Ultra. Read more about … read more »
Sound Discovery: SXSW 2012
As part of Sound Discovery, our ongoing collaboration with MSN as your guide to music festivals, we had writer Caroline McCloskey and photographer Michael Schmelling give their own personal rundown of SXSW. Read more about … read more »
Sound Discovery: Noise Pop 2012
As part of Sound Discovery, our ongoing collaboration with MSN as your guide to music festivals, we had writer Caroline McCloskey and photographer Michael Schmelling give their own personal rundown of Noise Pop. Read more … read more »
GEN F: Best Coast
Best Coast is every girl’s dream. It’s an open secret that teenage girls basically run the country. Armed with a lethal combination of surging hormones and disposable incomes, they are the target demographic of ad … read more »
Beat Construction: Girls’ Sophomore LP, Father, Son, Holy Ghost
There’s a song on Girls’ sophomore album Father, Son, Holy Ghost, that opens with a surpassingly pretty and gentle classical guitar melody. “Just a Song” was written by frontman Christopher Owens and appears just past … read more »
GEN F: Nguzunguzu
On overcast days city parks can feel foreboding, as if someone nearby is about to be bludgeoned, or the partially decomposed remains of a body are about to be discovered by an amateur birdwatcher. This … read more »
DJ Harvey: Another Day, Another Disco
Living proof that good times are all you need to sustain a great life, DJ Harvey is cresting the wave of his legendary career into an endlessly golden sunset. “I think I’m supposed to be … read more »
Gen F: Hauschka
“This record makes me think of highway driving patterns,” I wrote my editor halfway through my first listen of Salon des Amateurs, the new record by Hauschka, nom de guerre of Düsseldorf-based piano wizard Volker … read more »
Gen F: James Pants
Anyone who’s ever bought records has at some point in their youth been dazzled by the album cover art d’une certaine époque—the provocative collision of bare chests, candelabras, coke panic, Dacron bodysuits, winged beasts (is … read more »
FEATURE: Lil B, Young L and Odd Future are the Teen Wolves of California Eating Rap’s Guts
Admission to the fame party‚ that 24/7 bacchanal of tangled limbs, free shit, Schedule IV drugs, paparazzi strobe, chlamydia, tiger pets, emotional illiteracy, macchiatos and mug shots‚ always follows its own inscrutable metric. It’s available … read more »
