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Watch Chief Keef's Amazingly Titled 'Macaroni Time' Video
This week has only spanned two days, but it's already been a roller coaster ride for Chicago teen rap star Chief Keef. On Monday afternoon, he was arrested at an Atlanta hotel after a security guard summoned police upon smelling marijuana coming from Keef's room...
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Hear Daft Punk's Expansive 'Horizons,' a 'Random Access Memories' Bonus Cut
Daft Punk's SPIN Essential'd new album Random Access Memories is out today, and it's been
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Stream Robin Thicke's '4 the Rest of My Life,' 2013's Best New Wedding Song
"Blurred Lines" is Robin Thicke's tipsy party track - evidenced by its ridiculous music video featuring T.I. and Pharrell - but his music otherwise veers toward Sunday morning blue-eyed soul ballads, a style for which he has long been underappreciated...
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Hear Goodie Mob and Janelle Monae Get Dubsteppy on 'Special Education'
Goodie Mob made a very disappointing return to non-form a year ago when they performed their very Cee-Lo centric reunion song "Fight to Win" on NBC's The Voice...
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Swaginista! The Clash Announce Boombox-Shaped Box Set Full of Wonder
The Clash will soon release what guitarist Mick Jones recently described to the Guardian as the "best box set ever...
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Hear Deafheaven's Gloriously Shredded 'Sunbather'
San Francisco's Deafheaven are set to turn the black metal game on its head with the June 11 arrival of Sunbather. The group's second album is experimental even within its niche field - which is to say it's not afraid to get genuinely pretty, or to play with pop conventions even as it subverts them wildly...
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10 Albums You Can Hear Now: The-Dream, Laura Marling, Tricky, TEEN, and Mykki Blanco
This week's round-up of streamable albums includes new releases from The-Dream, Mykki Blanco,
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See Giorgio Moroder Spin Donna Summer at His First DJ Set Ever
Legendary French producer Giorgio Moroder delivered his inaugural DJ set in New York last night (May 20) at the Red Bull Music Academy's Brooklyn residency. He thoroughly packed Williamsburg's Output club for the hour-long performance, in which he sung live vocals via vocoder and remixed his tracks from across the...
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Brazos Expose a Lifetime of Memories in Oddball 'Charm' Video
Brazos main man Martin Crane offered a peek inside his head a few months back via the stop-motion video for "How the Ranks Was Won," a clip that the frontman wrote and directed himself...
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Phil Buerstatte, Former White Zombie Drummer, Dead at 44
Phil Buerstatte, a former drummer for White Zombie, has died. Paul Schluter, who played with Buerstatte in the Madison, Wisconsin-based metal band Last Crack starting in the late '80s, confirmed the news to SPIN via email...
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Hear Charli XCX Turn Lindstrom's 'Faar-i-kaal' Into Sexily Swaggering Pop
Norwegian producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm had a strong 2012, sharing two distinct LPs in nine months and hence landing high on SPIN's 20 Best Dance Albums of the Year ranking...
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Watch T.I. and Lil Wayne Speed Around Miami in 'Wit Me' Video
Last year, T.I. and Lil Wayne both hit late-career peaks with "Ball," the Weezy featuring single off Tip's Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head. Six months later, the two rap legends have reunited for "Wit Me," presumably the first single from T...
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The Thermals Get Ready to Rumble in 'The Sunset' Video
Portland trio the Thermals make a fiery return to their punky roots on their sixth album Desperate Ground, so perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise that they're in fighting form. Bassist Kathy Foster stars as a boxer training for the big fight in the above video for "The Sunset," doing all of the usual things:...
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Thurston Moore Talks About Not Talking About His Marriage Woes on TV
Thurston Moore has been freshly profiled for New York news channel NY1's One on 1 with Budd Mishkin...
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Watch She & Him's Zooey Deschanel-Directed 'I Could've Been Your Girl' Video
Move over, "Giorgio by Moroder," and make way for Zooey by Deschanel. The She & Him singer-songwriter and star of TV's The New Girl self-directed the video for "I Could've Been Your Girl," from her M...
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Anika: Noir-Pop Dynamo Trades Journalistic Wonkery for Avant-Pop Thrills
Who: Annika Henderson, a German-born, Welsh-raised freelance journalist with a background in club promotion and marketing who has collaborated with Geoff Barrow's queasy post-punk trio Beak>, and has been
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Eminem to Fake Slim Shady Mark Zuckerberg: 'Please Lawyer Up'
After the movie The Social Network and extensive profiles in magazines like the New Yorker, you might've thought you knew all there was to know about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg...
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Coachella 2014's Two Weekend Dates Announced, Tickets On Sale Soon
Coachella 2013 wrapped last month, but the annual Indio, California festival has already booked dates for its 2014 installment. Next year, Coachella will once again take place across
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Watch Four Tet Unlock the Secrets to Building a Better Live Show
"Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments," Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter recently told the
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Stream The-Dream's Seductive 'IV Play' Album in Full
The-Dream's long-awaited new album IV Play is now available to be streamed in full through the singer's VEVO account, or via the video playlist above...
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Watch the National Flood 'Letterman' With Strings, NPR With 'Sea of Love'
The National's sixth album, the ominously titled Trouble Will Find Me, is officially out today (it's been
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Stream Surf City's Fuzzy Summer Jam 'It's a Common Life'
Surf City recorded snippets of their upcoming sophomore album, We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This, in different locations around the world - the fuzz trio's native New Zealand, as well as New York and South Korea - but the LP's sunny first taste, "It's a Common Life," glows with a West Coast pedigree...
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See When Saints Go Machine's Crystalline 'Iodine' Video
When Saints Go Machine's apocalyptic clip for "Love and Respect" took a liberal interpretation of its source material, casting the synth-lined lead single off the Danish foursome's upcoming Infinity Pool LP as the soundtrack for a futuristic political thriller...
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Chief Keef Arrested Near Atlanta for Disorderly Conduct
Chief Keef has once again run afoul of the authorities. As the Chicago Sun-Times reports, the Chicago rapper was arrested near Atlanta yesterday on a charge of disorderly conduct...
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Watch the Baptist Generals' Touching 'The Dog That Bit You' Video
The Baptist Generals' first album since 2003's deeply affecting, folk- and country-kissed indie-rock sleeper No Silver/No Gold is out today. "Dog That Bit You," a searing, word-wise strummer from brand-new Sub Pop release Jackleg Devotional to the Heart now has a video that suits its off-kilter pathos...
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No Trivia's Rap Release of the Week: Mykki Blanco's 'Betty Rubble: The Initiation'
Not that you need to be reminded, but thanks to the Internet, music trends move faster and faster. For better and worse, the result is that artists seem to go through a career-length number of transitions in a matter of months...
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Hear Beyonce's Allegedly Full, Thrilling 'Grown Woman' Leak
"The news is worse than blogs," Hot 97 quoted Jay-Z as saying yesterday, but he's misunderstanding that when scoop-starved reporters can't get information from official sources - say, him or his wife Beyoncé - then the news has always turned to less-reliable third parties...
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Stream Natasha Kmeto's Dazzling 'Idiot Proof'
Portland soul-futurist Natasha Kmeto wears two hats as singer-songwriter and electronic producer on dazzling new song "Idiot Proof." Holding court over a galloping dance-floor rhythm, the
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Watch Murder by Death's Moving 'Lost River' Video
Though Murder By Death's latest music video is not for the Disney crowd, the clip for "Lost River," a highlight off the veteran Indiana outfit's 2012 Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon LP, does function as an animated short film...
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Hear AM & Shawn Lee's Disco-Kissed Come-On 'All the Love'
Los Angeles pop-soul singer Anthony "AM" Miller and England psych-funk producer Shawn Lee forged a near-perfect union when they began their long-distance collaboration a couple of years ago...
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