Another year, another great crop of songs. Some of you might be surprised to see a handful of radio smash hits on here, but I’d be lying to myself and you if I didn’t include them in a list of my favorite songs of 2012. There’s a Spotify playlist (with a few extra songs) to [...]

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I saw Santigold (with Diplo DJing and Spank Rock as special guest) at SXSW 2008. She was great then, but it didn’t seem that she’d really improved much in the past four years. She had more — and arguably better — songs, but her performance felt a little small for such a large stage. Her [...]

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Master of My Make Believe is out this spring. Grab the song for free at Santigold’s website.

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The Beastie Boys have some insanely great, absolutely classic music videos out there — the zany “Body Movin,” the underrated “Shadrach” and influential “Sabotage” among them — but “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” is up there with some of the best. See the B Boys and Santi get all GI Joe on [...]

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