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  Hey Ho, Let's Go!: The CBGB Festival
  By Katherine Turman

  "I certainly didn't love every band that played CBGB, but I did love to encourage them to do their own thing, to challenge the establishment," asserted late CBGB founder Hilly Kristal. "I've... More >>

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  Rapt.fm: Like Chatroulette Fueled by Hip-Hop, With Significantly Fewer Dicks
  By Jonah Bromwich

  You enter the room and they're already there. Some of the names you recognize: Randa the Rhyma (45 wins), Gig@ntic (48 wins), and Novice Raps (53 wins). You've checked the boards obsessively, but... More >>

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  Duane Pitre Gift Wraps His Compositions With a Bow on Top
  By Ray Cummings

  Nature's effects are often contemplated on a macro level: tsunamis submerging islands and totalling nuclear plants, wildfires scorching acres of Idaho forest. Comparatively speaking, the... More >>

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  Bun B and Shea Serrano's New Rap Coloring Book Is (Not Really) For the Children
  By Brian McManus

  If you've spent any kind of time on the Internet, chances are something Shea Serrano has written, drawn, or created has made you smile. The 32-year-old inner-city teacher from Houston, Texas,... More >>

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  Girls Against Boys Version 2.0
  By Michael Alan Goldberg

  The last time I heard Scott McCloud's voice on the other end of the phone it was in 2002. The Girls Against Boys singer-guitarist was in middle America, on tour behind that year's ominously... More >>

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  Music Fall Picks 2013
  By Edited by Seth Colter Walls

  Body/Head September 10 During Sonic Youth's indefinite hiatus, no member of the group has made the avant-garde a focus the way Kim Gordon has. A new duo with scrape-scene guitarist Bill Nace is... More >>

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  Kathleen Hanna Puts the '90s Behind Her to Run Fast
  By Peter Gerstenzang

  If Kathleen Hanna is supposed to be a humorless caricature of a feminist, someone forgot to tell her. The fact is, Hanna, former leader of the 1990s Riot Grrl queen-makers Bikini Kill, laughs her... More >>

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  Life Advice From Alice in Chains
  By Katherine Turman

  "When it comes down to Jerry [Cantrell] and I, everything operates friends-first, just like the band always did," says Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney. "You gotta like what you're doing and... More >>

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  The Graying of Hip-Hop
  By Chris O'Shea

  Andre Young is 48 years old. Gary Grice is 46, and Shawn Carter? Forty-three. O'Shea Jackson is 44 and Tariq Trotter is 41. Nasir Jones can boast that he's still in his 30s, but whatever pleasure... More >>

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  Big Snow Buffalo Lodge Shutters After Co-Owner Yoni David Is Shot
  By Dale W. Eisinger

  In the west wing of Bellevue Hospital, Yoni David sits dazed in a hospital bed. His shattered left arm is in what the doctor calls an elevation dressing, a cheesecloth-like tube that keeps his... More >>