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Kanye West and Jay-Z's new album, Watch the Throne, out yesterday, features a song called "Otis" in which the two sample "Try a Little Tenderness," a song by the legendary soul singer Otis Redding. When I saw the name "Otis," I immediately got excited: I love Otis Redding, and

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On Thursday, July 14, tUnE-yArDs played a free show on the Hudson River’s Pier 54 as part of the RiverRocks 2011 series. It was the most fascinating and musically interesting show I’ve ever been to. Listening to tUnE-yArDs on your iTunes is an entirely different exper

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On Tuesday, July 12, I hopped on the F train to go see Animal Collective perform at Prospect Park Bandshell as part of Celebrate Brooklyn. The concert was exactly what I had expected, and somehow nothing of what I w

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Monday, July 11th, I wandered off yet again to the Bowery Ballroom to see Washed Out perform. The opener, Grimes, was possibly the sexiest, most inspiring musical artist I’ve ever had the pleasure to watch live. One small girl with killer bangs going at it on her synthesizer, with a guy play

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On Monday, June 20th, I timidly wandered over to the Bowery Ballroom in New York City by myself to see Flying Lotus. Normally I don’t go to electronic concerts alone, but I had to make an exception for Flying Lotus. What I didn’t realize was that this show was a bit different tha

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The boys of Deerhunter are at it again, with new songs "60 Cycle Hum" and "Nosebleed." Their last album, Halcyon Digest, came out in September and made a big noise, bringing a lot of well-deserved attention to the group after years of producing dazzling, but slower and more ambient music. Mere months later, Deerhunter is at it again, making me swoon with their silky smooth mel

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A few weeks ago I wrote about Deerhunter scoring an aimlessly ambient film for the fashion line Rodarte. It appears that Rodarte is at it again, recruiting indie band No Age for this season's short film, Rodarte: States of Matter. Apart f

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Over my spring break, my friend offered me a free ticket to a Lady Gaga concert in Anaheim, California. I wasn't exactly a Lady Gaga fan- I don't really know any of her songs and I don't really know much about her at all other than the fact that she wore a meat dress to some event and caused a ruckus. But it was a free ticket to a show I had heard was a must-see. And so I went.

The

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The next film by Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke, Red Riding Hood (out now!), features a song by Fever Ray, or Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife, titled "The Wolf," which perfectly demonstrates the dark, sexy twist on the fairy tale remake. This song is haunting, ghoulish, and even a little off-putting towards the end. Watchin

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Deerhunter, the Atlanta-based indie rock band behind the gorgeous album Halcyon Digest, recently scored a short film called The Curve of Forgotten Things. In the short, Elle Fanning wanders aimlessly around an oil site looking for nice things in wildly inappropriate outfits. This is

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