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Bang Gang/Ksubi Brethren To Open New Bar

I'd been meaning to interview Angus Gruzman (better known as Gus Da Hoodrat) for a couple of weeks now - but found the task way harder to complete than I had initially anticipated. Our last conversation had been five months...

The Art Of The Remix With The Juan Maclean

Better known by the deceptively exotic Juan Maclean moniker, the loosely hinged slow jams from DFA flag-bearer and House enthusiast John Maclean have been providing DJ's with bathroom breaks and night owls with truly euphoric club moments for a while...

Dirty Projectors On Backing Mos Def, Harmonizing With Solange and The Future

Unless your 2009 consisted of a vaycay on the moon there's a 99% chance you awkwardly danced to Dirty Projectors' R&B inflected opus "Bitte Orca" at least once last year. Chances are you also tried to replicate the album's stunning...

Is "Sweet Disposition" The Most Licensable Track Of All Time?

On the cusp of the new millennium, amidst rampant Y2K paranoia (remember that shit?) and the tropical strains of J-Lo's "Waiting For Tonight" (remember that shit?), a bespectacled, vegan egg-head named Moby caused a minor music business stir by licensing...

Next Level Gorillaz Marketing

The label M.O. for drumming up media attention usually involves sending journalists shiny CDs wrapped in shinier press releases then crossing their fingers and praying to the God of publicity. Occasionally this process gets turned on its head and the...

5 Ways To Save Live Music Venues

In the space of a couple of months Sydney's Hopetoun Hotel and Melbourne's Tote closed their hallowed, well-worn doors for good. All three were bastions of grassroots music in their respective cities and their closures not only hurt venue owners...

Pickle Vs. Nickelback Facebook Creator Also An Evanescence Lover?

Nickelback are a band so ear-bleedingly terrible/offensive to the general concept of sound that hating them is like loathing the taste of shitcicles. I mean duh human population! It's only natural that a post-grunge douche squad fronted by the ugliest...

Yeasayer On Avatar, SNL and Cabin Fever

Yeasayer craft danceable psych-jams that deftly marry an ear for pop with esoteric influences. It's a tenuous balance and one that the Brooklyn three-piece only hinted at on their confident 2007 debut All Hour Cymbals. Their second studio album Odd...

Midlake On Jason Lee, Dark Places And Brown Couches

Midlake evoke a bygone era of stoic chivalry, witch trials and a dependence on the land. It could be 1960, it could be 1850, it could be 1500 - any period of time it seems, but modern day Texas. In...