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Taking Flight: Deap Vally

Deap Vally blitz the idea of girl band out of your mind with the first blast from Lindsey Troy’s electric guitar. She brandishes the instrument with same familiarity that most blondes with blunt cut bangs handle... Read more »

The 20 Best My Bloody Valentine Songs

Regardless of how or at what time of life they have experienced the band, rock listeners consistently recognize My Bloody Valentine as a sonic outlier. When we talk about MBV, this rare status can easily become... Read more »

The 15 Most Memorable MTV Unplugged Performances

MTV's Unplugged series started in 1989 after a renewed interest in folk music gave MTV the idea to bring out the acoustic guitars. By the mid-'90s, music legends were taking part, hip-hop was being incorporated, and... Read more »

The 25 Best Indie Musicians to Follow on Instagram

Like any other social media platform, Instagram can be stupid. So much of Instagram is crowded with shots of Florentine benedicts from brunch, blurry selfies, Rich Kids of Instagram and millions and billions and trillions of... Read more »

Why It’s Too Early to Judge Daft Punk’s New Album

The new Daft Punk album leaked, and the music world is scrambling. Thoughtful individuals are trying to process it as fast as they can in order to make an observation more astute than those around them.... Read more »

12 Things We Discovered on A$AP Yams’ Blog

Those unfamiliar with A$AP Mob might see A$AP Yams as a background member, but the more you know, the more you realize that he's an essential member of the crew. He's a curator, a "spirit guide,"... Read more »

15 Free Songs You Should Download Right Now

Every Sunday we collect the best free music we can find and put it all in one place. If you fell behind or just feel like building up your iTunes, we've got you covered. Enjoy.... Read more »

The Best EDM of the Week

You've got all day tomorrow to honor your moms for the love and shit she's given you. Hopefully you're already doing that shit for most of the year. Cut the nonsense out, though; this is your... Read more »

20 Songs You Didn’t Know Were Covers

Cover songs, they lift us up, they plague us, they irk us, they fool us. Sometimes being born too late is the excuse, other times, it's just plain and simple ignorance, but the shock of discovering... Read more »

Best Songs of the Week

With so much good music steadily coming through, it's easy to miss out on some of the best. To help prevent this, we've picked some of our favorite tracks from the week. Here are the songs... Read more »

20 Songs That Make You Feel Like You’re in a Drunken Haze

There always comes that moment when delirium starts to set in. When you drink to get drunk, the world changes from the confident, crystal-clear lucidity of moderate partying to an impenetrable miasma seeping through your brain.... Read more »

Getting Inspired on Twitter With Grimes, Frank Ocean, and Lil B

Twitter. We all use it to write about what we're doing, eating, feeling, thinking, loving, etc. But there are some people who take their Twitter abilities to new heights and manage to inspire us daily, in... Read more »

The 15 Types of People You Meet On The Dance Floor

The people that you meet at bars and clubs are the strangest. Every venue garners the most eclectic people, and most of the time, they're not the good sort of eclectic. Sometimes, you just want to... Read more »

Music Recommendations Based On Bands You Already Like

It's 2013, and human beings are still trying to figure out how to automate music discovery. Trends come and go, new services pop up and disappear, and a music discovery app is created, marketed, and killed... Read more »

30 “Indie” Musicians Who Aren’t Actually Indie

Before there was indie music, there was underground music, which was essentially the same thing as what we now call indie, except, as the name implies, no one knew about it. In the '70s and '80s,... Read more »