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The now-closed "drug bridge"
[Editor's note: Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes are covering the Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois.]
The Gathering of the Juggalos' infamous "drug bridge" is closed today, following reports of a fatal o...
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A juggalo photographed on Wednesday, the first day of The Gathering, 2013.
By its organizers' own assessment, the Gathering of the Juggalos is an event filled with the most misunderstood people of all time. Juggalos are generally looked down upon ...
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A juggalo photographed on Wednesday, the first day of The Gathering, 2013.
At some point in your life, you may find yourself sitting in a minivan in rural Illinois, stressed out as you wear a metal butcher knife pendant around your neck. Your ankl...
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It's all going down at Music Hall of Williamsburg, and we're pretty excited about it.
The official crew debut of World's Fair, Bastards of the Party, is out on Fools Gold September 3. The label has been batting 1000 of late, and if the first song o...
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For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Friday, 8/9:
Shaggy + TK Wonder
Prospect Park Bandshell
7:30pm, free
No matter what genre it comes from, the novelty song remains a gift and a cur...
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The man behind the all-caps-with-spaces moniker, Michael LaCour, came from humble beginnings--performing anywhere he could, from house parties to block parties. These stints led to LaCour morphing into one of Houston's most revered noise pioneers, in...
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Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline.
Mr Len recently released The Marvels of Yestermorrow, a project that he guarantees is "the most comedy you'll g...
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See also: They Might Be Giants Celebrate 25 Years of Freaky ImpulsesThe 1964 World's Fair
John Linnell: John and I both attended the 1964 World's Fair. That's how old we are. Even at the time, it seemed like it was kind of this, this fundamental cul...
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Better Than: Only screaming along to tracks from Bleed American in the comfort of your parents' car.
Andrew McMahon once sang "it's to Jimmy Eat World and those nights in my car" in the eight minute epic titled "Konstantine" that would become his b...
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Honestly...
Cameron Giles is not the only rapper who used to get it in Ohio. Stalley, the Blue Collar Gang founder and Maybach Music Group member still puts on for the Double O despite having lived in New York for years now. Well, that's not entir...
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The Belowrez photo app launched earlier this week. Reversing the trend towards megapixel madness, the app has a simple retro ambit: To turn camera phone pictures into pixellated images reminiscent of 8-bit video game graphics. Which seemed like a sen...
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Still, it certainly wouldn't be the first time an artist had scrapped a great album in the pursuit of a masterpiece. In fact, we've even heard some of them years later, like these five.
See also: The Top 10 Beyonce Collaborations
5. The Misfi...
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But in celebration of the news, we've assembled five other things that Simon Cowell has brought into this world--for better or worse.
See also: Ten Potential X-Factor Replacement JudgesFluffy Man Boobs! Being a hairy and overweight man at the beach ...
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It's not a bad time to be Pop. 1280.
They've released their second full-length--the impressively matured Imps of Perversion yesterday. Their label, the consistently brooding New York staple Sacred Bones, is also having a good year. It's bringing a ...
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Disclosure and TNGHT
Central Park Summerstage
8/6/13
Better Than: Catching up on all you missed at OVO Fest.
Jessie Ware put on her sassy pants last night. Rumors had been circulating through the crowd at Disclosure's show at Central Summ...
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Yesterday afternoon, Chris Brown announced via Twitter that he will "probably" end his music career after his new album X is released on August 20th. Whether or not he's serious we'll have to wait and see, but Chris Brown's adieu to the world deserv...
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Afrojack
By Natasha Miller
One imagines that when you're standing behind the decks at a massive concert, a solitary king ruling over an undulating sea of adoring fans, it's hard not to feel a surge of absolute power and control. After all, you're...
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See also: This Is What You Learn Volunteering at Pitchfork Music FestivalHaving last played Lolla in 2008, a year before mastermind Trent Reznor played their final show before an "indefinite hiatus," it was only fitting that Reznor & Co. would play t...
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Drake is perhaps the first person in human history to enjoy the benefits of being both a successful, critically acclaimed popstar, and a
bona fide human meme. He's a performer who shifts from angry, over-the-top
braggadocio to desperate, d...
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See also: How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy GuideDefault Genders--formerly known as Dead Girlfriends--is the new project of James Brooks, formerly of Elite Gymnastics, and currently of Grimes' boyfriend-dom. Brooks has a tumblr, on whi...
