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, Jan 11, 2013
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, Dec 29, 2012
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Frank Ocean leads the charge in making the Internet and pop music safer for sincerity
by Leor Galil
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, Nov 30, 2012
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, Nov 20, 2012
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Does music born of Dirty South drug wars have any place in squeaky-clean dance clubs?
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, Nov 10, 2012
How social media might be hurting presidential elections
My problems with social media, exacerbated during the presidential election
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, Oct 23, 2012
12 O'Clock Track: DSTVV, "Molly Soda"
Your introduction to the catchy world of "industrial grungegaze"
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, Jun 19, 2012
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Morrissey let someone put a cat on his head for a promo photo
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, May 11, 2012
Japanese Lady Gaga fans rule, unsurprisingly
Photographer Terry Richardson documents Lady Gaga's Asian tour and fans
by Miles Raymer
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, May 9, 2012
No sale = no defense
From Flosstradamus to Kanye West, artists are learning the hard way that they can catch heat for an uncleared sample even if they give their songs away
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, May 7, 2012
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, Apr 12, 2012
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, Apr 11, 2012
Tumblr: threat or menace?
It's supposedly turning creators into mere regurgitators—but what it's really doing is injecting new blood into an old remix culture
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, Mar 29, 2012
The new noise: so loud we can’t even hear it
It’s a noise registered not by decibels but by its ability to invade every nook and cranny of one’s psyche.
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, Mar 23, 2012
Your semiregular seapunk-journalism update
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, Feb 22, 2012
12 O'Clock Track: Shlohmo remixes "Crew Love"
LA producer out-Weeknds the Weeknd
by Miles Raymer
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, Jan 12, 2012
The week seapunk broke
A fast-evolving Internet-born dance-music microscene puts down roots in Chicago
by Miles Raymer
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, Jan 11, 2012
A winter mix from Molly Soda
Tunes from a local Tumblr-er
by Miles Raymer
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, Oct 24, 2011
Today in Kanye Internet memes
The Internet sends Kanye to Bayside High
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, Jul 15, 2011
We'll be covering P4K live on Twitter and Tumblr. Come hang out with us.
Follow us as we stumble around Pitchfork this weekend.
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