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Top 5 Questionable Fashion Statements at Coachella

We all know Coachella is a textbook study on the desire to wear things that no human should. That typically applies to the crowd who come decked out in ill-fitting, barely-there costumes, spirit hoodies and every piece of tight neon attire imaginable. But artists on stage can commit some cringe-wort ... More >>

Defend Your Ballot: Caitlin White, Pazz and Jop 2012 Contributor

You can't really know where you're headed unless you know where you've been. For that reason, we're taking a look back at Pazz & Jop 2012 to drill down into the ballots of contributors and voters who participated. Maybe amongst the rubble we'll find clues about what lies ahead for music lovers in 20 ... More >>

Pazz & Jop: Top 42 Singles

Pazz & Jop: Top 40 Albums

Paloma Faith - Mercury Lounge - 11/27/12

Better Than: A pint-sized Jessica Rabbit/Betty Boop hybrid in a pillbox hat. Drunk. These characters and their sexy, bubbly, potentially psychotic tendencies all came to mind while I watched Paloma Faith scale a bunch of fake palm trees at the Mercury Lounge last night. Her set time was apparently ... More >>

Fuck A Critic: What Does A Dog Think of New Releases From Meek Mill, Taylor Swift, Aerosmith, and More?

That's Francie, above. The greatest pug in the history of pugs. She's 9. And she loves music. Lives for it. She especially likes electronic music, with all the bleeps and bloops, the thwooooooshhhhes and zhhhrrmmmm and so forth. Anything Warp Records, she's all over that shit like it's a bowl full o ... More >>

Download: Religious To Damn's Moody Goth Melodrama "Glass Prayer"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​A mix of desert strum, hypnotic pulse, spirited-away synths, Lynchian weirdness, and Fleetwood Maximalism, it's not entirely certain if Brooklyn's Religious to Damn want to take you higher or drag y ... More >>

Download: Lacrymosa, "Sylvia (If I Meant)"

Shadowy, piano-playing chanteuse Caitlin Pasko is Lacrymosa, a drifty-dreamy fog of theatrical belting, twisted art-folk croon, bold melodies, and spectral tenderness--a haunted house version of uneasy troubadours like Antony, Joanna Newsom, or Bat For Lashes. After spending 18 years living in the ... More >>

Bret Easton Ellis Writes His Less Than Zero Sequel: Imperial Bedrooms

The author returns to L.A. 25 years later

Twin Sister Talk the Inspiration Behind Color Your Life's "All Around And Away We Go"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Long Island occult-pop five-piece Twin Sister have all the colorful makings of being the next weirdo art-swirl cult smash--that cold-yet-comforting croon, those wet washes of creepy reverb and drone ... More >>

The 1000TimesYes Top 100: The Top 100 2009 Records Of A Guy Who Listened To More Records Than You

You know, we actually have other shots of Chris, he just won't let us use them. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​As a guy who plausibly could claim he listened to more music than anyone in the last year short of Robert Christgau, 1000TimesYes's Christopher R. Weingarten seemed like the ideal guy to as ... More >>

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Lauren Dukoff's Family: Pretty Pictures of Devandra Banhart, Bat for Lashes, Others

Recently, rock photographer Lauren Dukoff released Family, a collection of photography which, among other things, chronicles the photographer's long friendship with Devandra Banhart. The book also presents Dukoff's portraits of Vetiver, Bat for Lashes, Joanna Newsom, and other musicians/artists/frie ... More >>

Bat for Lashes Mourn Both Lost Love and A Lost Vision of New York

The Year's Best Music Videos

Hugs and Kisses, The Outbursts of Everett True: Monster Bobby, The Pipettes