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Dollars to Pounds: Kirk Spencer
San Francisco-born Kim Taylor Bennett fled to Europe at 11, lived for a spell in London and once played guitar onstage with Green Day. She’ll report on new British music every other week. Kirk Spencer … read more »
Interview: Big Boi
Today marks the release of Big Boi’s third (if you’re counting 2003′s Spearboxxx) solo album, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, named after the title of a book Big says his late grandmother planned to write … read more »
The xx: What We Were Feeling
After a surprising ascendence, The xx learn to balance sensibility with popularity. The xx is spread out across two circular wooden tables in the drab lunchroom of Music Bank, a large warehouse in an industrial … read more »
See Beyonce Work Prince and Kings of Leon at Glastonbury
In last week’s New Yorker, Sasha Frere Jones called Beyonce, “a quiet meritocrat, celebrating the pleasure of doing things well and not making a particularly big deal of it.” Last night, attendees at England’s Glastonbury … read more »
Gold Panda “MPB” MP3
According to the infinite monkey theorem, if you put a million monkeys in a room, they’ll produce Shakespeare. We’re not likening Gold Panda’s new track “MPB” to Twelfth Night or anything, but the multiplicitous sounds … read more »
FEATURE: Jamie XX Might Have Something to Say
Sometime around 3AM in rainy Boston, the girlfriend of the guy who let us have an after party in his apartment gets curious enough to ask what band we are in. JB says, “The XX,” … read more »
Video: Hostage, “Roll” and Free EP
Scottish bass producer Hostage is not subtle. His name is fricking Hostage, for example, and he actually set the stage on fire during his set at Glastonbury while DJing “Fire” by the Prodigy. Not subtle! … read more »
Watch Shakira Cover The XX Live
Last month we posted a snippet of Shakira’s cover of The XX‘s “Islands,” which she’s repurposed into “Explore.” Performing this weekend at Glastonbury Festival, she performed the cover in its entirety, while smiling extensively and … read more »
Greenmoney, Gold Ru$h Mix MP3
Greenmoney‘s Gold Ru$h EP is out today on Fool’s Gold, so now we’re fully prepared for the party to light up like Mickey Rourke’s enraged electricity arms. Equipped with a knowing sense of humor and … read more »
Interview: Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett of Gorillaz
We sat down with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, the masterminds behind the ever-expanding Gorillaz, and two affable chaps with great taste in footwear. They’d just arrived in New York after a volcano-depleted but still … read more »
