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Music Mad Lib Monday: Damon Moon and the Whispering Drifters
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Featured Music Just Say No: Pondering Pop Music Paralysis
You know the feeling. You’re sitting there at your computer—or walking around with it—immersed in the magic of the internet. YouTube, iTunes, Facebook, MySpace, etc., etc., etc. Everything, seemingly, awaits at your fingertips. Entire worlds upon worlds of sound, images and talktalktalk, history, trends in art, fashion, design, architecture, dog grooming and floor polishing equipment. Everything. Funny thing is, after hour two or so you find you’ve forgotten what you were looking for. Meanwhile you’ve grown two hours older and are lost in the universe.
Now what was it exactly that you were looking for? New bands? Good movies to see? Who won the big game? Maybe you were looking for a kind of meaning, new ways to identify. Fair enough. Though perhaps you were merely looking to kill some time. Fair enough again. But why this numbness, this…nausea? Feeling dizzy and wasted you grow aware of something creeping up. The knowledge that you’re being smothered.
Ugh.
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Gallery Music Daedelus Graces Movement’s Red Bull Music Academy Stage
With a mission of bringing together musicians, DJs and producers from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds to exchange ideas about music and their knowledge of how life in the industry works, Red Bull Music Academy has helped emerging, innovative talent get their wings including many of the acts that were seen on the dedicated stage throughout the weekend.
Daedelus, well-known around the electronic music industry as one of today’s cornerstones of new sound graced the Red Bull Music Academy stage incorporating a deep jazz element into his Movement set proving his nickname — “mad professor” — true.
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Music Mad Lib Monday: Thomas Wynn and the Believers
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Music Girls in a ChinaShop: Kate Simko
New Year. New Music. New Favorites. ChinaShop handpicks the Women to Watch in 2011. Don’t sleep…
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Music Mad Lib Monday: The Smiles
It’s Mad Lib Monday at ChinaShop, where they fill in the blanks and we make up the rest. Check out our exclusive portraits and listen to some brand new music.
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Gallery Music HEALTH: Time for your Medicine
Between Death From Above 1979, the Bloody Beetroots, Lightning Bolt and Green Velvet, you knew the forecast for Coachella Day Three was going to be mostly heavy with an 80% chance of mosh. One of the bands most responsible for that late afternoon deluge of noise was LA rockers HEALTH, who decimated the Mojave Tent with a 14+ song set that included hits like “Die Slow,” “USA Boys” and “Crimewave,” in addition to underground favorites like “Zoothorns” and a cover of Pictureplane’s “Goth Star.” If you’ve never seen HEALTH live, you’re missing out, though your hearing is probably more intact than mine. These guys thrash around on stage like deep water fish on the end of a long line of 50-pound test, and they don’t play their instruments as much as abuse them. (The photo gallery tells the story.) They’re currently writing material for a new record—the follow-up to 2009’s Get Color—so we caught up with bassist John Famiglietti after their Coachella set to find out more.
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Music Francis and the Lights: Catching Rays at Coachella
Last year, amidst major releases from Kanye West, the Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend and Gorillaz, a little album by Francis and the Lights called It’ll Be Better snuck into slot five in my car’s CD changer sometime around April and stayed there for the rest of the 2010. Simple in its construction, heavily dependent on melody, and pristinely produced to enhance every hi-hat, keyboard flourish and tasteful guitar solo, It’ll Be Better proved that less was indeed more. But when I finally got frontman Francis Farewell Starlite on the phone, I found there was way more going on than meets the eye, and that dude is just as eccentric as his name—his real name, mind you—makes him out to be. But the fact remains that if you don’t keep him on your radar, you’re going to miss out on some of the best music this decade will have to offer. Backstage at Coachella 2011, he gave us a little insight into what he’s got coming next.
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Gallery Music COACHELLA: DAY 3 RECAP
Friday you have boundless energy. Saturday you’re crisp from the sun and mildly hoarse, but you’ve still got your legs underneath you. Sunday, however, is when the battle is won or lost; when true heroes are made (or broken) on the grassy proving ground of the Indio desert. It’s Day Three. Do you know where you parked your car?
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Music Mad Lib Monday: Dinosaur Bones
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