Though Frank Ocean and Tyler The Creator have garnered most of the Odd Future attention and praise from music critics, Mike G, in all his laid back glory, has managed to become a fan favorite. No small feat when you factor in the sheer size of the co...
Looking like a young Jim Croce with a dash of Owen Wilson if he were a Williamsburg hipster, Donavon Frankenreiter's brand of positive mellow-pop clearly evinces his roots. Which, of course, are West Coast. Way West, as in Hawaii, six hours and a lif...
Kool A.D. plays Webster Hall Wednesday night, opening a bill that also features El-P, Killer Mike and Despot. If you're heading to the show this evening, do yourself a favor and get there early, even if you're still holding a grudge. Because there ar...
Alan Thicke Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" is the song of the summer, and helps continue the Thicke family's run of pop culture ubiquity. After all, Robin's father Alan played Kirk Cameron's father on Growing Pains, penned the theme songs for "The...
Uncommon NASA Uncommon NASA is an MC, Label President, producer, engineer, and has worn pretty much every hat there is to wear in underground hip-hop over the past 15 years. In that time he's also been a pretty important part of some of the genre'...
It's an interesting time to be a music fan with a sense of humor. Not only have the past few years seen the rise of artists with an absurd sense of humor develop legit critical acclaim and devoted fanbases, but we've also seen artists who've made the...
Dear Fan, I'm having trouble getting press for my band/other bands on the micro label we're on. It's an all analog label, that has actually been tracking/mixing to tape and pressing exclusively on vinyl for the past five years. So, there are no digit...
It's not quite the Cold War, but the current relationship between the U.S. and Russia is especially frosty these days. From Syria to Snowden, we can't seem to see eye to eye across the globe, or even the Bering Strait, as Vladimir Putin's return to t...
Cody Morin, juggalo and Make-A-Wish recipient. We first heard about seventeen-year old Cody Morin on our way in to Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, site of the fourteenth-annual Gathering of the Juggalos. After hours spent driving through Southern Illinois...
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 you've only ever been here before anonymously, as a g...
Festivities here at the Gathering of the Juggalos run every day from noon until 5 a.m., and then things start getting weird. That's not to say they weren't weird to begin with, but after hours of drugs and partying and wicked clown love, juggalos wil...
Wondering what's in a "stoner bowl"? Keep reading. One of the true hardships that we face as a nation is the omnipresent problem of being surrounded by booze and stimulating foods. In the comforts of your own home, you may be able to curb your piz...
Better Than: The crumpled Warped Tour flyer you have lying around in your childhood bedroom. It's easy to become jaded in this town. There's so much to see and do. And, after awhile, you feel you have seen and done it all. Perhaps that's why New Yo...
For more shows throughout the week, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.Monday, 8/12: Hiatus Kaiyote Knitting Factory Brooklyn 8pm, $15 Vocalist Nai Palm, who wields an Ibanez Artstar guitar and often appears garlanded wi...
Amanda Palmer at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, August 9, 2013 Better Than: Drinking with old people and steampunks in any other possible setting. At some point during her show Friday night, Amanda Palmer sang a song called "Gaga, Palmer, Madonna:...
You're not a joiner. You have nothing in common with those dirty club-juggling hipsters and their Manhattan Bridge flash mob. You like small, dark rooms in the company of other misfit toys, where you laugh at the foibles of man. And you're in luck, b...
However, most of the wildest antics occurred off the air, and they're very humorously detailed in her memoir, The Kennedy Chronicles. Wednesday night she will be at the Bryant Park Reading Room, dishing it out with Rob Tannenbaum (I Want My MTV: The ...
Update: Reached by phone on Sunday afternoon, Hardin County coroner Jessica Cullum released the name of the man who died as Cory Collins, 24, of Harrisburg, Illinois, a town about 35 miles northwest of the music festival. Cullum said the cause of dea...
During the Gathering of the Juggalos, Cave-In Rock, Illinois becomes a sonic disaster zone. Even if you're a rap lover, it's hard to keep your mind sharp with all of the noise. But within the cacophony of sounds, a few incredible Juggalo statements w...
Once you arrive at the Gathering, you quickly learn you did not need to bring all that food. Even as we enter day four of our time here at the Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, we still haven't yet exactly mastered the art of be...
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