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Earl Sweatshirt wasn’t the first rapper to blow minds before being able to cast a ballot—nearly 30 years ago LL Cool J was rocking bells at 17, and even he was far...
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Not a note of irony can be heard on Aaron Freeman’s Marvelous Clouds, the artist formerly known as Gene Ween’s glorious 2012 rediscovery of kitsch king Rod McKuen....
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If you’re looking for Hayes Carll, the singer-songwriter who was Americana before Americana was selling out the Garden and the Barclays, your best bet is to check either...
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Is there anyone writing today who can wring more laughs from a single paragraph than David Sedaris? The bestselling humorist of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holidays on Ice, and,...
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Ever been to a live broadcast of a radio show? Our guess is no, since the heyday of such events was more than 75 years ago. In that case, the L.A.–based show The...
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Never has there been an era in which you could easily go from wearing flannel and Doc Martens to neon windbreakers. The ’90s were, indeed, a very special time, and the...
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Save for the unrelenting optimism she always manages to exude, Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha is like a long-limbed self-portrait of every young New Yorker. She doesn’t...
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How long until Phoenix can play a show without fans wondering if Paris peers Daft Punk will make a surprise appearance? Since the latter duo joined the former four-piece...
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Ghostface Killah may be the de facto star of Twelve Reasons to Die, the veteran Wu-Tang rapper’s 10th solo album, but its musical visionary is the name above the title:...
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She put her name on the top lyricists map when writing with Tommy Wolf for the 1959 trend-setting revue, “The Nervous Set,” and more recently, the playful...
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Soundtracking everything from Snooki & JWoww’s Jersey escapades to the scene in Girls where Hannah puts on fishnet and flails around a city club, Icona Pop’s...
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If you could draw your own map of Manhattan to include spots of your most interesting memories, what would you include? Becky Cooper handed out hundreds of blank maps to New...
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It was a hard road, and always will be, but now in his mid-sixties, Charles Bradley has cornered the market on telling it like it is. His sophomore album, Victim of Love drips...
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Although critics often compare indie rockers Kurt Vile and the Violators to some obvious influences, like slacker-rock icons Dinosaur Jr., and a few who are a bit more...
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Daft Punk have trumpeted their upcoming album as "EDM with real instruments," but attentive listeners know that live instrumentation is nothing new in electronic music. Just...
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Dripping with nostalgia for a childhood spent on the cusp between the 1980s and 1990s, you wonder whether Anamanaguchi’s members are even too young to have played the...
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Mr. Bungle/Faith No More guitarist Trey Spruance specializes in bachelor-pad instrumentals for swinging Gnostics. Flavors include silver surf rock, shortwave-pop collages,...
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The jagged-looking Norwegian moniker of Kvelertak is just about the only thing accessible about the group, currently one of metal's most buzzed-about bands. In reality, the...
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Watch out for the NYDP this Saturday—the New York Dance Police. During the seventh annual Dance Parade, these fun-loving “cops” will hand out tickets to...
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The hardest part of the Brooklyn Lit Crawl—a night of readings, sing-alongs, impromptu writing exercises, and games at various locations around Smith Street—is...