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The Best of SXSW Music: Wednesday 3/14/2012

​If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving musi ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineup?

Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leaked" lineup appeared last week on StarzUncut, a celebrity gossip website with more than 58,000 Twitter ... More >>

Lana Del Rey's Disappeared Full-Length Debut: A First Listen

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"Bridesmaids": Women Get Their Own Apatow Comedy, for Better and for Worse

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Chali 2na on How To Travel in Poor Man's First Class, and Getting Pelted with Bottles by Green Day Fans

Chali 2na​At six-foot five-inches tall, traveling the touring circuit can be far from comfortable for the rapper and ex-Jurassic 5 member Chali 2na -- not least when it comes to squeezing himself into airplane seats intended for those of a markedly smaller stature. So as he prepares to kick off a ... More >>

Saturday Night: Concrete Blonde at the Regency Ballroom

Chris MacArthur​ Concrete Blonde June 26, 2010@The Regency Ballroom Better than: Twilight... as good as True Blood. Concrete Blonde first hit the rock scene way back in 1986, debuting on MTV's 120 Minutes with the raucous single, "Still in Hollywood." More punk than metal, the L.A. power trio di ... More >>

mr. Gnome brings surreal sounds from Josh Homme's studio

Chris MacArthur​ Concrete Blonde June 26, 2010@The Regency Ballroom Better than: Twilight... as good as True Blood. Concrete Blonde first hit the rock scene way back in 1986, debuting on MTV's 120 Minutes with the raucous single, "Still in Hollywood." More punk than metal, the L.A. power trio di ... More >>

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The Caged Bird Sings

The real story behind Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine isn't the label battles. It's how good the record is.

Regina Spektor

Soviet Kitsch

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The Master Musicians of Bukkake drop their twisted, free-noise, world-influenced panic-rock on you

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Local musicmakers remake Brian Eno's masterpiece; Rachel Yamagata's not-so-sunshiney torch songs

Van Hunt

Van Hunt

House of Tudor

Modern-day torch songs, synth-pop sleaze, and Central Asian electro hybrids

Fiona Apple

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Various Artists

Music From the Motion Picture Magnolia

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Music From the Motion Picture Magnolia

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Music From the Motion Picture Magnolia

Words + Guitar (+ Beats + Skronk)

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What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

Reviews

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Racket

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Kiddie Primer

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The House of Tudor

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