Fresh Kicks 103: DJ Bowlcut
DJ Bowlcut’s sets always feel as though they’re on the verge of bursting. Starting his musical course as a turntablist with a taste for rough, avant-garde hip-hop and technical scratch …
Swedish House Mafia's Stockholm reunion in photos
The long-awaited reunion of Swedish House Mafia in their homeland has now taken place as three back-to-back dates at Stockholm’s Tele2 Arena went ahead as planned. Despite some issues involving travel to …
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10 unforgettable sets from the history of EXIT festival
Where do you start with Exit Festival? From its rawer, more intimate early years through to today’s monumental offering, this award-winning gathering has always been about free expression, experimentalism and …
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Ani DiFranco on Her Memoir, Hadestown and Reckoning With the 1990s
Less than two minutes into our interview, Ani DiFranco says the word fuck for the first time, and it sounds like music. The f is fricative and percussive, much like …
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The Best Songs of 2019 (So Far)
This list has been updated with April releases. It’s always exciting to see what shape music will take in a new year. What invisible connections will be made, and who …
Today We Mourn the Separation of Michelle Williams and Her Husband, Phil Elverum
It was too good to be true. We invested too much, too soon, and today we cope with the cold reality of this world: Michelle Williams and her husband, Phil …
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Get To Know: J. Worra
J. WORRA has come a long way from her small town Midwestern roots. While her blue-collar peers were busy playing sports, Jamie Sitter spent her adolescence teaching herself instruments like guitar and piano. It …
When Genre Becomes a Prison
Billboard giveth, and Billboard taketh away. The 80-year-old chart authority moves in mysterious ways sometimes, but the secrecy of its processes has rarely endured as much outraged criticism as it …
Fresh Kicks 99: Marina Trench
Marina Trench is climbing her way to the top of the Parisian DJ circuit. Fast becoming a regular both in the capital’s clubs and throughout the country, the past couple …
The Story of Cult Music Icon Daniel Johnston’s Lost Album
In October 2017, Brian Beattie, an excitable Austin music producer who has worked with Bill Callahan, Okkervil River, and the Dead Milkmen, set off in his beige 2005 Toyota Sienna …
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