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- Music, April 8, 2015
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Satan's Satyrs
Metal/garage-rock purveyors Satan's Satyrs dream big
- Between the weed consumed, the horror movies watched, the graveyard hangouts and—most importantly—the music heard, summer 2009 was a generous, joyful time for a 16-year-old Clayton Burgess.
- Music, March 11, 2015
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Enslaved
Chameleonic metal outfit Enslaved prove the lasting power of teenage kicks
- Sometimes, opportunity literally falls from the sky—or if not the sky, then at least from a decent height off some stage somewhere. Case in point: the beginnings of Enslaved.
- Music, March 4, 2015
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Doomtree
For Mike Mictlan and indie hip-hop outfit Doomtree, all together means going all in
- One day in sixth grade, Michael Marquez came home from school with his future figured out. Inspired at least partially by an older brother who was "one of the best DJs you've ever heard that you've never heard of," he says ...
- Music, February 25, 2015
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Los Rakas
Los Rakas' culture-coalescing, unity-championing hip-hop is now a decade deep
- For two videos released by the same group a mere five months apart, the clips for Los Rakas' "Sueño Americano" and "We Dem Rakaz (Hola)" can't get more tonally dissimilar.
- Music, February 18, 2015
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Hanni El Khatib
For Hanni El Khatib's reckless, disheveled rock & roll, imagery is everything
- There has long been more to music than music. As long as music-related illustrations, photography and film will be distributable en masse, visual music culture will remain intertwined with the aural. Images shape sound, and vice versa.
- Music, March 13, 2014
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Disco Doom
Disco Doom's rock continues to chase its own calling.
- It can’t be easy to launch—and, more importantly, maintain—a band in a city that has zero interest in your type of music, but Gabriele De Mario and Anita Rufer somehow pulled it off.
- Music, February 20, 2014
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Together Pangea
L.A. band's rock & roll rises with a disorderly, disillusioned roar
- In today’s terrain of MP3s, M4As, FLACs and other digitized audio formats, the album cover just doesn’t possess the aesthetic power or punch it once had. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t fine pieces of cover art rolling out today.
- Music, February 6, 2014
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Reggie & the Full Effect
Synth-pop returns to the lighter side
- On Kickstarter.com, artists, entrepreneurs and others aiming to rake in strangers’ cash begin their crowd-funding campaigns with videos outlining what they’re trying to raise money for. Said clips usually show the project creators as endearing, chummy and occasionally obsequious folks; since Joe Internet is more likely to shell out money to a sweetheart than an asshole, this technique is key.
- Music, December 5, 2013
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Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe rises, with big dreams and good company in tow
- Kids adore humungous, dramatic, generally impractical career aspirations, and Sarah Jaffe was no exception. She once wanted to be a professional basketball player
- Music, November 21, 2013
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Radkey
Garage-punk up-and-comers place their bets on brotherhood
- Every cause needs an enemy, an antithesis that justifies why said cause is worth following in the first place. Radkey, a trio from St. Joseph, Mo., have found and named their antagonist.
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