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2012 Stories by Nick Murray

• NOTORIOUS K.I.M.

  published May 16, 2012

  The elders will preach respect, but when beef is the most lucrative thing this side of Beats by Dre headphones, and a dis MP3 leaked to the right... More >>

• MY KINDA PARTY

  published May 16, 2012

  Remember that time you were sipping on a crisp glass of craft beer and thought, "Wouldn't it be great if I could do this while watching the Roots,... More >>

• THURSDAY = YOUTH

  published May 9, 2012

  In their early days, European indie duo M83 looked back to shoegaze, with Anthony Gonzalez's vocals lying in a feathery bed of guitars and keys.... More >>

• REGGAETON 

LATINO

  published May 9, 2012

  In 2006, Don Omar's King of Kings took reggaeton higher up on the American pop charts than it had been before. Six years later, the former... More >>

• RUST NEVER SLEEPS

  published May 9, 2012

  Over the past few months, Shortcuts has emerged as one of the most exciting new parties in the city: Thrown by Truth Panther Sounds head honcho... More >>

• 'Electric Daisy Carnival'

  published May 9, 2012

  This weekend the biggest music festival in Las Vegas leaves the desert and OH OH, SOMETIMES heads to New York, offering three days of dubstep,... More >>

• SONG OF BROOKLYN

  published May 2, 2012

  When Walt Whitman wrote the poem that the Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Festival takes its name from, the ferry served as the main means of... More >>

• OWN THE NIGHT

  published May 2, 2012

  With "Need You Now," Nashville trio Lady Antebellum crossed over from country radio to Top 40; they even got the Glee treatment as the song... More >>

• ARTY ROCK ANTHEM

  published May 2, 2012

  Andrew Bird, so the press release goes, is a classically trained violinist (do they train violinists in anything but?) who turned his back on the... More >>

• WORKING FOR 

THE WEEKND

  published April 25, 2012

  First there were a couple of songs uploaded to a Tumblr. Then a Drake co-sign, then a hazy Xanax hangover of a mixtape, House of Balloons, one of... More >>

• DEEPER THAN RAP

  published April 25, 2012

  With their "History of Hip-Hop" series, the Rub mixed together the hottest rap songs of each year from 1979 to 2009 and blended three decades of... More >>

• BOUNCIN' BACK

  published April 25, 2012

  Most know Mystikal from 2000—the year when his "Shake That Ass" followed Juvenile's "Back That Azz Up" on the charts and out of the speakers... More >>

• BLOW YOUR HEAD

  published April 11, 2012

  On the surface, an odd matchup: What does punk rock have in common with moombahton, the dance subgenre that Dave Nada accidentally invented when... More >>

• LYRICAL SPIRITUAL

  published April 11, 2012

  In 2009, two EPs—the first self-titled, the second Of Light—primed Planet Earth for Shabazz Palaces, an interstellar avant-rap duo led... More >>

• GREEDHEAD IS GOOD

  published April 11, 2012

  Last January, Big Baby Gandhi took to Vimeo, uploading a four-minute freestyle that, according to the video's title, proved him to be "the best... More >>

• FLOSSIN' SEASON

  published April 11, 2012

  With his five Cash Money records, Juvenile established himself as one of the best ever to do it, finishing Mannie Fresh beats with inventive flows... More >>

• SOUND AND VISION

  published April 11, 2012

  Nine years ago, the Unsound Festival ambitiously attempted to bring together artists on the cutting edge of various genres—everything from... More >>

• NEVER SAY NEVER

  published April 11, 2012

  Esperanza Spalding's large ensemble r&b/soul/jazz fusion isn't the most offensive music out there, but that didn't protect her from the fury of a... More >>

• THIS IS
 HARDCORE

  published April 4, 2012

  For the last 15 years, DJ Rekha’s Basement Bhangra party has exposed the city to the South Asian dance music and in turn exposed artists... More >>

• MEN-MACHINES

  published April 4, 2012

  More than 40 years ago, Kraftwerk, a German electronic group based around Florian Schneider, Ralf Hütter, and a revolving door of fellow... More >>

• EVERYTHING BASED

  published April 4, 2012

  Lil B the rapper made his debut in 2006, kicking off the first verse of "Vans," his teenybopping rap group's proto-jerk ode to the hottest skate... More >>

• HOUSE PARTY

  published March 28, 2012

  Over the past few months, the work of Junior Vasquez, the New York–based DJ/producer whose music has been moving bodies since the... More >>

• PARTY HARD

  published March 28, 2012

  In Santos' Party House, co-owner Andrew W.K. might have his own Chinatown hangout, a place where hipsters and their plus-ones can party... More >>

• GLORY DAYS

  published March 28, 2012

  If the words "Bruce in New Jersey" don't sell this on their own, check out the title track on the Boss's new Wrecking Ball, an ode to the... More >>

• STRIKE A POSE

  published March 21, 2012

  With events like a recent release party for Veronica Vasicka's Minimal Wave Vol. 2 comp and a New Year's Eve bash featuring Araabmuzik and Laurel... More >>