- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 4, 2013
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There's no good music news so we're watching a Taco Leg video
Today's music news is dumb, but we can go dumber
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Sep 25, 2012
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Gossip Wolf: Legs McNeil reads from Please Kill Me at Late Bar
Plus: The inaugural Black Dot Music Festival brings together bands of color and Mountain Dew taps Chicago music-scene flavor
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 24, 2012
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"Pop That (Party Break)" is your Friday-afternoon jam
Nick Catchdubs will help make everything OK
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 16, 2012
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12 O'Clock Track: Drake, "HYFR"
Drake throws one hell of a bar mitzvah blowout in the video for "HYFR."
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 23, 2012
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Your semiregular seapunk-journalism update
Writing about writing about writing about seapunk
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 13, 2011
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The inevitable Tebow mashup has dropped
DJ Steve Porter made a great mashup of Skip Bayless going off about Tim Tebow.
- Music, Music Feature, Nov 17, 2011
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Drake charts a course for pop
With the new Take Care, he erases the last lines between hip-hop and the rest of the Top 40
- Music, Music Feature, Sep 8, 2011
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Quality vs. quantity
With the new Thursday, released just five months after House of Balloons, the Weeknd struggles to keep up with the hype treadmill Quality vs. quantity
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2011
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The business of selling music continues to make no sense at all
Tha Carter IV's surprising first week sales estimates
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 15, 2011
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If you only download 12 rap mix tapes today, make this one of them
Detroit rapper Danny Brown drops "XXX."
- Music, Music Review, Jul 28, 2011
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DJ Khaled and the hip-hop illuminati vs. Danny Brown
The Miami-based producer has a team of crazy millionaires, but the Detroit MC only needs himself
- Music, Artist on Artist, Jun 2, 2011
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New Orleans bounce queen Big Freedia talks to Local MC Emanuel Vinson
"It started at a block party. People were like, 'Get on the mike.'"
- Music, Soundboard, Mar 31, 2011
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The List: March 31-April 6
Music Critics' Choices and other notable shows: the Julian Lage Group, the Ben Allison Band, Lil Wayne, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Death and the Powers, Off!, and more
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2011
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week's Early Warnings include Diplo, the Felice Brothers, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, Rise Against and Bad Religion, Rusko, Thin Lizzy, Tune-Yards, Wye Oak, and Yes.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 4, 2010
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This Week in Reader Music
The best 1900s album yet, a comprehensive guide to the Umbrella Music Festival, and more
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 26, 2010
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Rappin' Grannies: the Next Level
Watch this rappin' granny destroy "A Milli" forever.
- Music, Music Column, Feb 25, 2010
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Putting the Old in Old School
Freeway may be a senior citizen by hip-hop standards, but he won't be put out to pasture.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 31, 2009
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Mixtape For a Low Dishonest Decade
21 songs for a terrible decade.
- Music, Music Feature, Dec 31, 2009
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My Favorite Things: Aughties Edition
Because no list of albums could sum up what’s happened to music in the past ten years
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 30, 2009
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Dope Tunes
The far-out post-hip-hop sounds filling up my new iPod
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