Once you reach a certain level of fame your dignity becomes harder and harder to hold on to. And that goes double for when you’re dead. I’m pretty sure Kurt Cobain would hemorrhage at the thought of Converse making a signature shoe in his honor. Well, actually, publicly he would have made a big stink […]

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I’ve been semi-obsessed with the new M83 record for a few weeks now and this song in particular. It’s such perfect shoegaze retro. It sounds like Jesus and Mary Chain filtered through a John Hughes movie soundtrack.

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While it’s a huge improvement over the catastrophe that was Without Feathers, The Stills’ new single “Being Here” doesn’t quite recapture the moody immediacy of anything off its debut Logic Will Break Your Heart from 2003. The band clearly learned a hard lesson from its sophomore slumping mistakes, but “Being Here” is too shiny and […]

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So, it used to be difficult to see a YouTube clip of Prince’s cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” from this year’s Coachella because, well, everybody knows Prince will unleash his Nazi brigade if so much as his shadow appears on the site. But, According to the Huffington Post: After word spread that Prince covered Radiohead’s “Creep” […]

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Evidently, MGMT has been hanging out with Bow Wow Wow and Adam and the Ants circa 1982…

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The always-well-spoken Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger has a new addition to his Poptimist column in Pitchfork that ponders the psychology behind choosing one’s favorite album. I’ve always answered the same album since I was about seventeen: The Cure’s Pornography. I haven’t even questioned that answer in years (despite The Cure’s self-sabotaging relevance in my […]

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Instead of having to click on random people’s Muxtape’s, a developer has created a streamlined search engine called Muxfind, which allows users to seek out artists or songs on Muxtape’s site. [via gawker]

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