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VIDEO: Alexis Diaries Part 1
Even though they're currently on the road securing music world domination, the boys from Alexisonfire still found time to check in and send us some exclusive footage of life behind the scenes...
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TRAIN WRECK: Nexopian Rhapsody
Warning: Long hours and an excess of Red Bull may cause lack of judgment and loss of all shame.
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REVIEW: The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
Though bits and pieces of We Are the Pipettes have been released in various forms over the last couple of years, today marks the release of the three British babes' first full length this side of the Atlantic...
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REVIEW: Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd.
It seems to me that Hot Hot Heat have always had one foot in the mainstream, and whether their fans knew it, or liked it, or whatever, the band was destined to be basking in the LA sunshine or walking along NY's Chelsea streets and rubbing elbows with...
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REVIEW: Magda - She's a Dancing Machine
Traditionally, in the world of underground electronic music, minimal techno was one of the least conspicuous genres. I myself, up until a few years ago, couldn't tell you what constituted minimal techno, let alone name a single minimal artists...
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REVIEW: The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
An unbridled ball of punk rock energy that is as dazzling an achievement as it is a wonderful catastrophe!
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REVIEW: Kanye West - Graduation
While Kanye West won't be stripping Jay-Z of his "best rapper alive" title anytime soon, Graduation does prove once and for all that he might just be the genre's most adventurous collaborator...
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REVIEW: New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
New Young Pony Club is a British Indie-Electro band that starting releasing records around 2004. Their exposure wasn't great, however, until uber-popular Australian record label Modular started releasing their singles...
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REVIEW: Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
Full of ramblings about half remembered events and spurts of ill timed anger!
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REVIEW: M.I.A - Kala
As adept at spewing brash polemics as she is at weaving sonic tapestries into dancehall gold!
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INTERVIEW: Exclusive with Eddie Argos of Art Brut
Hotter than "Lohan" let out for a weekend pass from rehab...
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NEWS: Nexopia VERSUS The Warped Tour
We came...we saw...we gave out free shit!
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REVIEW: Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
Much like the Canadian music industry as a whole, Montreal pop band, Stars, suffer from being in a perpetual state of misdirection and artistic uncertainty. Easily good enough to find themselves at center stage...
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REVIEW: Adam Freeland - Global Underground
To hardcore fans of the breaks scene, Adam Freeland's reputation for daring, technically astounding mixes often precedes him...
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REVIEW: Digitalism – Idealism
Digitalism is a relative newcomer to the ever-evolving electro scene. My first experience with Digitalism was their remix of Cut Copy's "Going Nowhere", released in 2005. Later, I heard their remixes of...
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REVIEW: The Brunettes - Structure and Cosmetics
Six years ago, when Phil Spector's "back to mono" slogan still had the power to provoke every would-be scenester from England to Portland into thinking they were all incarnations of Brian Wilson, Structure and Cosmetics might have made waves...
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REVIEW: Madlib – don't know'm? Well he's only one of Hip Hop's living legends!
The problem with music reviews is that a writer might say something to describe an album or song that gets you interested enough to listen, but when you do, your impressions...
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REVIEW: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - IS IS E.P.
My first exposure to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was back in 2003 when, as a first stop on the road to promoting their first full length, Fever to Tell, they tore up the stage on Late Night with Conan O'Brien...
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REVIEW: Rooney - Calling the World
Ok Rooney, we get it. You're obsessed with the 70s. But let's run down the list anyway, just in case we missed something shall we. Does your album cover look like the male contingent from That Seventies Show crashing a Bread photo shoot...
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REVIEW: Justice
Forget that old egg-headed, knob-twiddling, anti-music that your older brother tried to pass off as electronica twelve years ago. Justice have most certainly put it outta their minds, and you know why? Because while academic twaddle like...
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REVIEW: Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Geezis people! With so much agitation surrounding Interpol's return as a west coast major label band, we'd half expected this NY foursome to show up on record shelves wearing Hawaiian shirts, roller skates, and freshly bleached toothy grins or something...
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REVIEW: Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Since single-handedly popularizing the ironic mustache back in the mid-nineties, The Beastie Boys seem to have become more known for their hoary old frat boy antics than for their legitimate reign as white rap revolutionaries...
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REVIEW: The Cribs - Men's Needs, Woman's Needs, Whatever
Any English band that claims to not have struggled to survive under the avalanche that was the Arctic Monkeys' record breaking rise to power, is either so out of touch that they're not...
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REVIEW: MK2 - Reality Enhancement Systems' Memekast
If you dig hip hop and electronic music and like to download free mixes, you could do worse than checking out the memekast at www.mk2systems.com...
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FEATURE: Silicon Death Valley
The only reason I hesitate using a metaphor to equate the music industry to a lumbering dinosaur on the brink of extinction is that, unlike those giants of the Jurassic age, big biz knew its time was up...
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REVIEW: White Stripes - Icky Thump
You know, between the untimely demise of V2 Records and the subsequent rise to fame of brother Jack's radio friendly super-group The Raconteurs, the future of the White Stripes was starting to look, at best, rather bleak...
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