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Pussy Riot Appeal Hearing Pushed Back
Oct 1Photo of Pussy Riot via the band's LiveJournal The court date for Pussy Riot's appeal has been pushed back to October 10, as The Guardian reports. The hearing, originally scheduled for today in in a Moscow court, was delayed following jailed band member Yekaterina Samutsevich's dismissal of their lawyer Violetta Volkova. As they search for a replacement, two Pussy Riot lawyers remain-- one of whom, Nikolai Polozov, speculates that Volkova was dismissed for the purpose of delaying the hearing,...
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The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases
Oct 1Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to upcoming releases. Four times a year, we round up a big ol' list of albums, singles, EPs, and DVDs set to be unleashed over the coming months, hoping to get you pumped about going out and buying records. (You do still do that, right? RIGHT?) This installment covers fall 2012. Compiling such a list isn't easy in this day and age, with different release dates for digital and physical versions of albums, as well...
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Listen to Death Grips' Album NO LOVE DEEP WEB Now, Check Out the Extremely Graphic Cover Art
Oct 1As they hinted earlier tonight, Death Grips' new album NO LOVE DEEP WEB, their follow-up to The Money Store, is available to stream and download for free right now. On Twitter, the band said, "The label wouldn't confirm a release date for NO LOVE DEEP WEB 'till next year sometime,'" followed by, "The label will be hearing the album for the first time with you." So who knows if and when this will see release on Epic/Columbia. Stream it below, download here, and check out the cover art below....
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Listen to Death Grips' NO LOVE DEEP WEB Now
Oct 1As they hinted earlier tonight, Death Grips' new album NO LOVE DEEP WEB, their follow-up to The Money Store, is available to stream and download for free right now. On Twitter, the band said, "The label wouldn't confirm a release date for NO LOVE DEEP WEB 'till next year sometime,'" followed by, "The label will be hearing the album for the first time with you." So who knows if and when this will see release on Epic/Columbia. Listen here, download here, and check out the very NSFW cover art...
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How Do I Build My Fanbase When I Only Play Covers?
Oct 1THE ARTIST: Jazz Garcelle THE QUESTION: I’m currently working on my first EP. I don’t have any original material that I perform; so right now I only do covers. How do I build a bigger fan base even though I don’t yet have my own music for people to identify me with? THE ANSWER: Great question Jazz. For this post I’d like to give the word “fan” a definition. Fan: an individual who finds interest in what you do A fan is a fan. If he or she likes what you do, they count as a fan. In other...
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TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek Launches Label With Trent Reznor Remix
Oct 1As he tweeted earlier, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek is launching his own record label tomorrow. It's called Federal Prism, and the first release features a remix from a pretty huge name: Trent Reznor. Reznor, along with his longtime collaborator Atticus Ross and Nine Inch Nails bandmate Allesandro Cortini, remixed Telepathe's "Destroyer". It's available for pre-order here. Sitek produced Telepathe's 2009 album Dance Mother. Check out the original version of "Destroyer":
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Watch Bat For Lashes Dance on the Beach in "All Your Gold" Video
Oct 1On October 23, Capitol will release the new Bat for Lashes album, The Haunted Man in the U.S.; Parlophone/EMI will release it on October 15 in the UK. Now, there's a music video for "All Your Gold", wherein Natasha Khan dances on the beach. Watch it below, via Listen Before You Buy.
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Q-Tip Hints at G.O.O.D. Music Follow-Up Album to Cruel Summer
Sep 30The G.O.O.D. Music album Cruel Summer featured most of Kanye West's G.O.O.D. roster, with one noteworthy exception: recent signee Q-Tip. MTV News asked Tip about his absence on the album at last night's BET Hip-Hop Awards. "I know, I know, I'm sorry about that but I have to let the cat out of the bag. Kanye's probably gonna get...," he said, pausing to call Pusha-T over. "If there's a Cruel Summer, then there's got to be a Cruel Winter, right?" Watch video of the interview below.
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Report: Jay-Z Kicks Off Brooklyn's New Barclays Center Arena
Sep 29Above photo courtesy of the Barclays Center website; photos below by Ryan Dombal Jay-Z owns precisely one-fifth of one percent of Barclays Center, the first big indoor sports arena to be built in New York City in more than 40 years. So while his actual stake is tiny, the rapper is putting something arguably even more important to him on the line with his involvement in the curvy, steel-enraptured structure built over Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards: his credibility. By design, he's hardly a silent...
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Getting It Done: The Week In D.I.Y. & Indie Music
Sep 29Music Pros Offer Their "Most Important Piece Of Advice" For Young Bands Merge Tumblr And Bandcamp with TumblrCamp Next Big Sound Rebuilds and Updates Music Analytics Platform Redditors Share Their Music on Radio Reddit Exclusive: Songkick Reveals Music Concert Crowdfunding Plans with the Tale of Tycho MORE: Upward Spiral Podcast #10: Interview w/Incubus Manager Steve Rennie, Advice For Bands and More MS MR's Releases EP On Tumblr, Let's Fans Listen, Watch, Remix &...
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