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Lou Reed Cancels Coachella And A Few Other Shows

Does he suddenly feel too old? Sick? Probably not. The website just says ‘This show has been cancelled due to unavoidable complications’ and this is quite mysterious to me. If he was sick, they wouldn’t say this! May be he didn’t take the expression ‘Oldchella’ too well

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Download Junip's New Song 'Your Life, Your Call'

‘It felt like trying on new clothes when we first listened to it – it took a while to get comfortable with it, but now I like it a lot’ says José González’s to describe the song, and I feel quite the same way after my third listening. But don’t get fooled by the lightness of the melody

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Not With The Band: What Is Stage Presence?

Stage presence is not always about how energetically the person moves on stage, in any case, it should be spontaneous, unpredictable, personal, mysterious and why not, weird, bizarre, disturbing. That’s why I would never consider these rehearsed-to-death stereotyped choreographies as good indicators of stage presence

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FIDLAR: Vampire Weekend Were Just Total Dicks To Us

We were DJing in one room and they were DJing in another room and they were just playing the worst music ever, and everyone was in our room just jamming out… And they had this totally dead room where they were just playing electronic music and kept giving us the stink-eye

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Chris Owens At The Ebell Theater, Friday March 22nd 2013

On Friday night, Chris Owens had settled down for this 60s-inspired pretty and delicate music, embellished with ethereal flute, Toots-Thielemans-style harmonica and vibrant sax, and he didn’t even hesitate to cover big classics from Cat Stevens, Simon and Garfunkel, Donovan and Bob Dylan, going with the period.

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OFWGKTA's Shirts Banned At A Connecticut School

Connecticut school officials have banned a famous shirt showing an image largely promoted by the band, the famous cat head with hollow eyes and an upside down cross on the forehead. According to NBC, they declared that this cat ‘stands for something vile’,…

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Listen To Sigur Rós' Almighty New Song 'Kveikur'

The song certainly has Sigur Rós’ habitual gravitas expanding a dark soundscape, even ferocious this time, with Jónsi’s impressive voice going full falsetto. It is a very powerful and poignant track, with a wide-screen cinematic dimension unleashing an Icelandic mythology that explodes on the tiny set of the show,… wait until you witness this monster live!

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Morrissey Has Been Cautioned To Retire From Music

He actually already announced his plan to retire 2 years ago, when he is 55, even saying ‘I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have, this is my 30th year, and I’ve aged a lot recently, which is bit distressing for me, as it must be for everyone. The body changes shape and there’s nothing you can do about it.’

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Listen To Two New Vampire Weekend Songs!

‘Diane Young’ is a mixed and intriguing bag with the familiar buoyancy of the band, going bipolar with light electronic doo-woopy parts, punchy drums and wild surfing guitar slides. It is a lot of fun but it almost sounds like a too quick ride

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The Jacksons Want AEG To Pay Them $40 Billion

Katherine Jackson and the King of pop’s three children, Prince, Paris and Blanket are suing AEG Live for $40 billion to make up for his lost future earnings after the series of concerts he’d scheduled were cancelled because he died! AEG was in charge of MJ’s ‘This Is It’ tour, but had also hired Dr Conrad Murray

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Rock Stars Run Marathons Too!

Who would have thought that rock’n’roll life style was totally compatible with long distance running? I actually think there is nothing more punk rock than running a marathon! And I am such in good company when I know that Joe Strummer ran three

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Steven Drozd Opens Up about 'The Terror'

Steven Drozd said he wished the album wasn’t connected to the Super Bowl – their song ‘Sun Blows Up Today’ was used for a commercial which aired during the game – because the record doesn’t sound like this song at all:

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Rhett Miller At High Fidelity, Sunday March 3rd 2013

we got to listen to Deer Tick’s ‘Divine Providence’, The Wedding Present’s first song of their first record ‘George Best’ (I had no idea of who they were), Gary Numan’s M. E., Rhett Miller’s duo with Rosanne Cash, ‘As Close As I Came To Being Right’ from his last effort ‘The Dreamer’, and X’s ‘The Hungry Wolf’, from ‘Under the Big Black Sun’

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Caspian at the Echoplex, Friday, March 1st 2013, Reviewed

The whole thing was very, very ambient, quite cinematic, if your brain was willing to provide the images, and at times contemplative. It wasn’t that nothing was happening, their soundscapes were abruptly and constantly changing like a moody-stormy weather, but you had to do some efforts if you wanted to follow them

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