Featured Artist: Local Natives

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With Bonnaroo literally around the corner, there are so many awesome new bands that are playing at the extravaganza in deep in the heart of Tennessee. We’re proud to say that a fair share of site alumni are at the event, in fact way too many too list, including multiple featured artists. This week we’re

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Album Review: Thundercat, Apocalypse

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Sometimes great music comes from obscure places. Other times it’s so obvious that the music is overwhelmingly amazing that impossible to put your finger on the pulse of why that’s the case. After a few years of working behind the scenes with L.A.-based producer/maestro Flying Lotus, bassist extraordinaire Thundercat (not to be confused with the

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Featured Artist: Bleached

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  Today’s styling of punk music is harder to find than before. This can be attributed to the watered down version of pop punk that nearly destroyed the genre and turned punk from a lifestyle and attitude into just another cash cow. While bands we won’t mention did their best to kill it, there have

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L.A. Gets Its Rocks Off at Stones Fest

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Let’s face the facts; unless you’re a serious player, great seats for the current Rolling Stones 50th anniversary tour will likely cost you a month’s rent or a mortgage payment. That’s life in 2013. However, for those of us can’t afford to plunk down that sum, we can take solace in knowing that we can

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Featured Artist: Laura Marling

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If you were to tell someone in, oh let’s say 1995, that Britpop would be kaput and West End British folk would be on top of the world nearly 20 years later, many people would have laugh and likely think that you should be institutionalized. Yet here we are in 2013 and all things folk,

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