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School of Seven Bells' Alejandra Deheza on the Loss of Her Musical Soulmate,...
Photo by Clarke Tolton/Justin Hollar"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear," C.S. Lewis wrote in his 1961 book A Grief Observed, a collection of observations about the death of his wife....
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Flight of the Conchords’ Greatest Hits
Photo by Gary Wolstenholme/Redferns/Getty ImagesThough it’s been seven years since Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie provided comic relief through folk parody and semi-autobiography on their beloved...
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25 Modern Songs Inspired by Serge Gainsbourg
During the '90s, discovering Serge Gainsbourg was a record geek rite of passage. His album covers were tantalizing—Histoire De Melody Nelson, the 1971 LP that may very well be his best, suggested...
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Watching Neil Young Movies With the AARP
The dad-rock jokes pretty much wrote themselves when news spread that the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) was sponsoring a special, one-night-only double feature of Neil Young's Human...
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Why It Took Decades for The Replacements to Get Their Due
Photo by Greg HelgesonThe Replacements are feted as the most gloriously alcoholic band of their generation—Midwestern fuck-ups writing heart-on-sleeve anthems who craved the spotlight, but did just...
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19 Unreleased Radiohead Songs That Could Be on Their Next Album
Photo by David Wolff-Patrick/WireImageWhen looking forward to a new Radiohead album, it’s not a bad idea to look backward. "Nude," a song the rock deconstructionists first teased in their 1998 tour...
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10 Essential Recordings From The Ocean Floor
Photo by Getty/Last ResortOceanic researchers recently recorded sounds from the deepest known spot on the seafloor—Challenger Deep, a valley in the Mariana Trench that plunges nearly seven miles...
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Kendrick Lamar's "untitled 06” Collaborators Explain Its Unlikely Origin—And...
A day after Kendrick Lamar surprise-released untitled unmastered, the co-producers behind one of the album's standout tracks still couldn't definitively identify all of the voices on their own song....
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What Cuba Thought of Major Lazer's Historic Havana Show
Photo by Shane McCauleyDiplo is wearing a Cuban baseball jersey and waving a Cuban flag. He is in front of a crowd of hundreds of thousands of Cubans (the government newspaper reported over 400,000),...
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Record Store Day 2016's Best and Weirdest Bets
This year's Record Store Day, set for April 16, will be the ninth annual edition of the event celebrating independent record stores. You don't have to look far to find ambivalence about the day's...
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The 5 Techniques That Made George Martin the OG Super Producer
Photo by Chris Ware/Getty ImagesGeorge Martin’s relationship with the Beatles made him world renowned as a producer, but his greatness in skill was his own making. Martin had experience playing,...
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Watching Jeff Buckley, Before He Became a Myth
Photo by Ebet Roberts/Getty ImagesWhat if we finally did away with this notion of Jeff Buckley as a seraphic being who briefly graced our earth from on high? At this point, more words have been poured...
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Why the Color of Nina Simone's Skin Is as Important as the Sound of Her Voice
Photo by Vernon Merritt III/Getty ImagesOn April 22nd, Nina, a movie inspired by — but not an accurate reflection of — Nina Simone will be released in theaters. Starring Zoe Saldana, a black Latina...
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An Oral History of R.E.M.’s Out of Time
Photo by Time & Life PicturesR.E.M.’s 1991 LP Out of Time might not be their masterpiece, but it’s arguably their most important album for the way it broke them on mainstream radio, reaching far...
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Future’s Pop-Up Shop Is All Codeine and Luxury
I don’t have to tell you that there is a line at the Supreme store. The bucket hats dot the west side of Fairfax all the way up to Rosewood, their owners exuberant but kind enough to leave gaps for...
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How Vampire Weekend Ended Up Playing a Bernie Sanders Rally at a Stoner Frat
Photos by Alexis O'Connor"I have a question for the audience," said Luis Calderin last Friday morning, looking out onto a sea of Northwestern students. They seemed prepared for his predictable refrain:...
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Beatles Engineer Geoff Emerick on How George Martin Changed the Game
George Martin and Geoff Emerick in the studio together in 1995; photo by Phil Dent/Getty Images.George Martin achieved more from 1962 to 1970 than most producers hope to in a lifetime. Though the...
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Revisiting the Car Crash that Shook SXSW, Two Years Later
Red River Street closed off in 2014 following the car crash; photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images.Meredith Bradley was heading home. It was around half past midnight on March 13, 2014, and she was...
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Kanye West Is Still Changing The Life of Pablo. Does It Matter?
Kanye at his Madison Square Garden release of 'TLOP' last month; photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty.At what point is a record “over,” and who gets to make the call? Kanye West is seeing how far he can...
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U2’s 1982 Rider and Other Artifacts from the First Avenue Archives
Prince at First Avenue in 1983; Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThis week’s feature story “Everybody Is a Star: How the Rock Club First Avenue Made Minneapolis the Center of Music in...
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