I finally lost my Morrissey virginity last night in Greenville, SC after having missed him countless times over the years, and it was so well worth the wait. I was expecting a far less energetic performance for some reason (maybe since Ringleader of the Tormentors lacked the punch of You Are the Quarry). But his […]

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“…the 85+ recorded covers of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is mapped in relation to the original recordings by the band. Although available information was limited, the graph is data rich in representing time since original recording, recording artist, release name/date and label. Various graphical techniques employed (eg. radiating dots) allowed for data […]

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Parlophone isn’t just going to sit back and watch Radiohead rake in all the money now that the band has jettisoned the mothership. The ousted label already has plans for a box set, comprised of all six of Radiohead’s studio albums, which will be available on December 10 via the band’s website. The set will also be […]

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With its new record, Distortion, out in January via Nonesuch, The Magnetic Fields have set up a brief tour to help spread the word. The dates are slim pickins, but at least they are playing multiple shows in each town- said towns just happen to be very, very far away from the South. 

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“YouTube presents the world premiere of the music video for “100 Days, 100 Nights” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, the title song from the album, available in stores offline and online. The video was directed by Adam Elias Buncher using two vintage TV cameras bought on E-Bay for $50 dollars each. Shows how much […]

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Deliberately amateurish cartoon psychedelia doesn’t quite cover how wildly abnormal this video. It looks like decades-old homemade cut and paste art- stilted and trippy in its androgynous ambiguity. Its non-linear storyline feeds off randomness and eccentricity as much as the song itself does. This is the highlight of Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? for […]

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This video is beyond insane. Bikini-clad models prance on a stage, gorging on ketchup, cash, and jewelry, climaxing in a slow-motion montage of neon puke. Awesome.

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