Spank Rock’s “#1 Hit” debuted last night on the BBC and Some Kind of Awesome has the radio rip. Rock’s new LP Everything is Boring and Everyone is a Fucking Liar is out Sept 27. Stream “#1 Hit” at SKoA And if you missed grabbing the MP3 of “Energy,” snag it here.

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Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All are coming to Cincinnati this fall. They’ll hit Bogarts on October 15 in the middle of a long string of dates. OFWGKTA tour dates 9/28 @ House of Blues- San Diego, CA 9/30 @ Warfield Theater- San Francisco, CA 10/2 @ Roseland Theater- Portland, OR 10/3 @ Vogue [...]

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MP3: Little Horn – Thief MP3: Little Horn – Bridges Break When I downloaded these two tracks from Little Horn’s Twelve I felt like I was storing up for the winter. These are good tracks, sure, but I feel like they’ll be great songs in the winter. Imagine this soundtracking a late night walk to [...]

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I feel embarrassed at the “how much I enjoyed Twin Shadow” to “how much I have to say about Twin Shadow” ratio that goes through my mind after seeing the band. They really are one of the best young bands I’ve seen in a long while. Even though both times I’ve seen them it’s been [...]

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To call this a video is being a bit generous; it’s really more of a way to stream Diplo’s new song from the Mad Decent vol 1 compilation. Stream the whole thing at Mad Decent’s site

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I’ll use Plum’s excellent song “Malibu” as an opportunity to point something out: I no longer accept/encourage people to mail packages. And now that my inbox is cleared of thousands of old emails, this is the perfect time to email me about your band! Plum did just that and things worked out great for both [...]

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Before there was Ariel Pink, there was R. Stevie Moore, the critically-praised, commercially ignored lo-fi cult hero who has put out more than 400 releases (many of them cassettes) since the late ’60s. Despite the prolific nature of his recording career (which wouldn’t mean a thing if his songs weren’t bloody brilliant, and they are), [...]

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OMGICU stitched dozens of youtube smartphone clips together into a full video of “High For This” from The Weeknd’s debut show in Toronto. I’d be much more interested in an “Oh My God I F*cking Shot That” Beastie Boys or a Bon Jovi “Bad Medicine” edit of the clips, but this is great to have. [...]

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The Features’ new album Wilderness kinda snuck up on me this year. Maybe it’s because I’ve missed them the last few times they’ve stopped in Lexington. But Wilderness is out today and so is this great new song, “Content.” MP3: The Features – Content As much as I love old Features songs (Exhibit A is [...]

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