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  Lollapalooza 2013: A Recap

  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...

  @ Sound of the City by Brittany Spanos on August 7, 2013 @ 3:55 am

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  The 10 Least Self-Aware Lines in Drake History

  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...

  @ Sound of the City by Luke Winkie on August 6, 2013 @ 12:58 pm

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  On Default Genders, Dead Girlfriends, Politics, and Imagination

  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...

  @ Sound of the City by Jonah Bromwich on August 6, 2013 @ 11:30 am

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  Why Ciara Selling Her New Album on Groupon Is a Good Idea (Compared to Other Groupons)

  See also: Magna Grail Holy Marketing Ciara introduced an element of diversity to Groupon. In a site typically filled with stock photos of white people getting massages and/or/while doing exotic exercises, and where the darkest items are red ...

  @ Sound of the City by Jay Stephens on August 6, 2013 @ 4:05 am

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  If You're Not Touring Your Album You're Burning Your Label's Money

  Dear Fan, I'm in a weird spot with my music "career." I have a label that's actually willing to put my stuff out, but the last album barely broke even. I don't tour and I don't even have a band with which to play local live shows. Since I'm doing thi...

  @ Sound of the City by Jessica Hopper on August 6, 2013 @ 4:00 am

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  Duane Pitre Gift Wraps His Compositions With a Bow on Top

  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 compositions of Duane Pitre are resolutely micro: moss gather...

  by Ray Cummings on September 18, 2013

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  Beck - Prospect Park Bandshell - 8/4/13

  Beck Better Than: Streaming Lollapalooza on your laptop. "You wore me out," Beck told the crowd last night as he sat down on the stage near the end of his two-hour performance at Prospect Park Bandshell, as a benefit for the excellent Celebrate ...

  @ Sound of the City by Aaron Frank on August 5, 2013 @ 11:06 am

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  Cheap Laughs: The Best Free Indie and Alt Comedy This Week

  Thank God all the humorless New Yorkers have left for the Hamptons. For a few more blissful weeks, Gotham is the exclusive preserve of mockable tourists, tragic hipsters on Tecate benders, and that special breed of clown pirates called "com...

  @ Sound of the City by Tom Cowell on August 5, 2013 @ 10:00 am

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  Washed Out's New Album/Ice Cream Is Big on Escapism and Pink Peppercorns

  Ernest Greene--aka Washed Out--is a big fan of the dessert version of his latest release, but it's the breakthrough he threw himself into headfirst with Paracosm's 40-odd minutes and 50-instrument entourage that truly excites him. He put a handful of...

  @ Sound of the City by Hilary Hughes on August 5, 2013 @ 4:05 am

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  The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 8/5/13

  For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Monday, 8/5: Beyonce Barclays Center 8pm, $49.50-$254.50 Where better to see Beyonc's ongoing Mrs. Carter Show world tour than the arena of which Mr...

  @ Sound of the City by Brittany Spanos on August 5, 2013 @ 4:00 am

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  Star & Dagger Will Drink to That (...and That ... and That ... and That Too)

  Forget Thelma & Louise: Star & Dagger are the ladies you really want to take a road trip with. Only, though, if booze, blues and shenanigans in copious amounts are your thing. Or, as guitarist Dava She Wolf (Cycle Sluts From Hell) elucidates her band...

  @ Sound of the City by Katherine Turman on August 2, 2013 @ 5:41 pm

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  The Top 10 Beyonce Collaborations

  Most of the time, billion-watt megastars like her don't really need collaborative foils; they just get in the way when the Princes and Michael Jackson's and Madonnas of the world are laying waste to huge cities like New York, Paris, and Tokyo. Someti...

  @ Sound of the City by Ray Cummings on August 2, 2013 @ 12:48 pm

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  Big Rock Breaks Down His Porn Name and Mustache Game

  Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Big Rock (who you might also know as Rockness from Heltah Skeltah) has just signed a deal with the WAR Music la...

  @ Sound of the City by Phillip Mlynar on August 2, 2013 @ 10:20 am

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  Ozzy Speaks: Tony Iommi Is "the Most Underrated Guitar Player on the Planet"

  It's pretty much a given at this point that Ozzy Osbourne is going to die onstage. Nothing can keep the man away from that spotlight. Through 45 years of professional triumphs, personal trauma and drug-induced mania, the original heavy metal wailer h...

  @ Sound of the City by Nathan Smith on August 2, 2013 @ 10:00 am

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  The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 8/2/13

  For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Friday, 8/2: Justin Bieber Barclays Center 7pm, $45-$95 Come on, judgmental tabloid reader, you were 19 once, too, and you didn't behave much diff...

  @ Sound of the City by Brittany Spanos on August 2, 2013 @ 4:00 am

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  The Best Jazz Shows in NYC This Month

  These are the best jazz shows in NYC in August. See also: Finding Hip-Hop's Beginning in Afrika Bambaataa's 40,000-Deep Record CollectionDerrick Hodge Having made his name in the bands of Terence Blanchard, Robert Glasper and others, bassist Derrick...

  @ Sound of the City by David R. Adler on August 1, 2013 @ 5:00 am

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  AG the Coroner: Inspired by Biggie, Cosigned by Action Bronson, Signed by Roc Marciano

  "I had a friend who just so happened to be working in the freezer when I got here and he was able to cut some corners for me," says AG the Coroner, the Brooklyn-based rapper, about what until recently was his day job in the dead body storage departme...

  @ Sound of the City by Phillip Mlynar on August 1, 2013 @ 4:00 am

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  Rocko Signed Future -- Who Was Then Known As Meathead the Future -- and U.O.E.N.O. It

  Recently, Rocko snuck into New York City. As usual he was moving below the rada, only popping his head up to make a few power moves and do a little press. Here are some thoughts Rocko wanted to share while he zipped around the island of Manhattan. He...

  @ Sound of the City by J. Pablo on August 1, 2013 @ 4:00 am

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  That Time the Melvins Played With Yoko Ono

  Melvins: Freaks Puking The Melvins--immortal avant-metal overlords of cataclysmic, stadium-sized riffage, double-drum devastation and deliciously diabolical yelping--are the freakishly genius punk crushers that the late Kurt Cobain wished to high ...

  @ Sound of the City by Brad Cohan on July 31, 2013 @ 12:30 pm

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  This Is What An Exclusive Album Listening Party With Dream Theater Looks Like

  "an intimate playback" of their new, self-titled album. The evening promised an introduction and discussion of the album with members of the band, who would also be in attendance. Oh, and free Hor D'oeuvres. Naturally, we went. The album, out in Se...

  @ Sound of the City by Linda Leseman on July 31, 2013 @ 10:03 am