Music
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‘Alternative Love Blueprint’: An Alternative Music History You Hang on Your Wall
Ah, alternative music. Bands that your parents have never heard of, that never get played on the radio, that don’t show up in TV commercials or movies, except for the ones that do, which, never mind. Anyway, there’s now a way for you to announce your own alternative sensibility to all of your domestic visitors […]
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LCD Soundsystem Releases Two New Songs (Audio)
It’s been about a year and a half since we’ve had any new music from LCD Soundsystem, but now they’ve come roaring back with two new singles that you can listen to online in advance of the band’s appearance on Saturday Night Live tomorrow night. The two new LCD Soundsystem singles are entitled “call the […]
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‘Score: A Film Music Documentary’ Features Hollywood’s Most Famous Composers (Trailer)
I’ve always said that the most important part of a lot of great films is the score, which a lot of viewers tend to sleep on, ignore, and take for granted. Evidently, a cadre of famous movie score composers are sick of being ignored, because they’ve come together to participate in Score: A Film Music […]
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‘OK Computer’ 20th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue Coming Next Month
One of the most important rock albums in the history of the form turns 20 this year. To celebrate, Radiohead is putting out a new deluxe 20th anniversary reissue of OK Computer, which will feature oodles of bonus content as well as a completely new remaster from the album’s original analog recorded elements. Those bonus features […]
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‘BIG POPPA’: Mind-Bending Paper Sculpture Pays Tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. (Video)
Felix Semper is an artist who specializes in a unique form: Sculptures that at a glance appear to be made of marble or some other stone, but which are actually made from densely layered paper that makes them flexible and stretchable. His latest work is entitled BIG POPPA, in the likeness of rap legend The […]
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“Electric Intercourse”: Stream a Previously Unreleased Prince Song
One June 23rd, fans of the late Prince will get something they’ve been dreaming about for decades; a deluxe reissue of Purple Rain, loaded with previously unreleased bonus tracks, some of which haven’t ever been heard before in any form, bootleg or otherwise. Today, a single off of that reissue was released by Warner Bros., […]
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Rock Out Loud: Marvel and Doritos Collaborate on a Music-Playing Bag
Evidently, according to my sources, Marvel and Doritos have teamed up to promote Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 by developing a cassette player replica Doritos bag that actually plays music, as part of the “Rock Out Loud” campaign. Look, I dunno, OK? I didn’t make this up, it came across my desk and I […]
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‘Bill Nye Saves the World’ Teases Theme Song by Tyler, the Creator (Video)
The name of Bill Nye the Science Guy‘s upcoming new Netflix show is Bill Nye Saves the World, but evidently he’s not going to save the world alone. In a recent tweet from the show’s official Twitter account, it was revealed that one of the people Nye has enlisted to help him in his mission […]
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Gorillaz App: Band Releases Mixed Reality App in Advance of Album (Video)
Gorillaz has a new album coming out, but you still have a couple weeks to wait until it actually gets released. In the meantime, you can occupy yourself with the band’s remastered videos, its singles (and their accompanying videos), and even a “new multimedia story.” And now we have one more piece of the Gorillaz […]
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Jay Z Has Pulled Most of His Albums Off Spotify and Apple Music
For a while at least, it appeared that Jay Z was not interested in playing hardball with the streaming services that stand in opposition to his own service Tidal. But fans have recently noticed that much of the artist’s work is nowhere to be found on both Spotify and Apple Music. As I write this, […]
