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EP: Surfer Rosie - EP 1

EP: Surfer Rosie - EP 1

thelesigh.com — Surfer Rosie unleashes nerve-pinching ferocity on their first EP. Portland's Surfer Rosie emerged from a community based on self-expression. Three-quarters of the band (including founder and co-vocalist, Laura Daegling) met while working at Portland's Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, a branch of the national and international nonprofit Girls Rock Camp, where girls learn and play music together.
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EP: Radula - Beyond Tears

EP: Radula - Beyond Tears

thelesigh.com — Radula sounds as if they were born out of a dream. In several episodes of the new season of Twin Peaks, nonfictional bands including Chromatics and Au Revoir Simone perform at the town's dive bar, The Bang Bang Bar. The chosen bands share an aesthetic influenced, directly or indirectly, by the show's dark, dreamy, and skewed reality.
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Paste's 29 Most Anticipated New TV Shows of 2017

Paste's 29 Most Anticipated New TV Shows of 2017

Paste Magazine — It can be hard to stay atop the tsunami of TV these days, and at some level this list is another log on the fire-29 more shows to feel guilty about not watching. But take heart, friend. We're here to guide you, not to guilt you.
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How TV Helped Create Our Dangerous Culture of "Evisceration"

How TV Helped Create Our Dangerous Culture of "Evisceration"

Paste Magazine — In the Coen brothers' Barton Fink, the titular character prides himself on creating theater for "the common man," unlike the many writers who "do everything in their power to insulate themselves from [them]." He's ranting to John Goodman's character, Charlie, an insurance salesman.
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EP: True Dreams - Untitled

EP: True Dreams - Untitled

thelesigh.com — Like a story that begins in media res, True Dreams' debut EP Untitled throws us into the action without holding our hands. Angela Carlucci and Hannah Nichols subscribe to a two-is-better-than-one music philosophy as they share vocal duties, often singing in unison and bouncing off one another.
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LP: Betty Becky - Betty Becky

LP: Betty Becky - Betty Becky

thelesigh.com — Betty Becky wrangles with past relationships, depression, and surviving loneliness on their eponymous LP. Berkeley twee-o (like trio...sorry) Betty Becky are having trouble getting out of bed and, given their home in the Bay, cold and rainy weather isn't their biggest problem.
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Danny Brown, 'Atrocity Exhibition' and Depression in Hip-Hop

Danny Brown, 'Atrocity Exhibition' and Depression in Hip-Hop

rhymejunkie.com — Danny Brown is not well. He hasn't been for some time. He's depressed, haunted by his bleak Detroit childhood, and medicates his tortured psyche with coke, pills, and weed. Each album drags us down with him into the abyss.
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EP: Empath - Crystal Reality Vol. II

EP: Empath - Crystal Reality Vol. II

thelesigh.com — Empath's latest EP is a secret universe where noise is the way to tranquility. Live music sounds best bouncing off corroded basement walls. There's something so purifying in jumping around a damp room, cramped between sweaty, smelly friends and strangers. Why is that, exactly? Well, first let's think about what a basement is.
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LP: Earth Girls - Wanderlust

LP: Earth Girls - Wanderlust

thelesigh.com — Exploring the uncertainty of the human condition on Earth Girls' Wanderlust. "Should I stay or should I go now?" a merry band of 20th century philosophers once queried. We've all faced this quandary in our personal lives where if we go there will be trouble, and if we stay, there will be trouble - double the trouble, in fact.
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The Milk-Eyed Mender And The Patience of Vinyl -

The Milk-Eyed Mender And The Patience of Vinyl -

vinylmeplease.com — Written by Vinyl Me, Please on September 7, 2016 / Slow Burn by Alex Stern Trying to keep up with new records often feels like trying to plug a dam with a piece of chewing gum; the deluge is going to keep happening whether you like it or not, and you're going to miss some things.
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Atmosphere has the 'Fishing Blues' on new album (Review)

Atmosphere has the 'Fishing Blues' on new album (Review)

rhymejunkie.com — Slug (the rapper) and Ant (the producer) are more commonly known as Atmosphere - they have released music under that moniker since 1997. Publishing consistent work for nearly twenty years is hard to do for even our most cherished artists. When artists get older, many (as James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem once wrote) tend to lose their edge .
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Danny Brown gives us 'Pneumonia' from his upcoming LP 'Atrocity Exhibition'

Danny Brown gives us 'Pneumonia' from his upcoming LP 'Atrocity Exhibition'

rhymejunkie.com — Danny Brown is not afraid to drive 120mph into the canyon of the uncanny. "Pneumonia" is Brown's second single off his upcoming Joy Division-referencing LP Atrocity Exhibition. Like the ragged first single, "When It Rain," Danny tosses us into his Adderall-sponsored carnival.
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Lil Uzi Vert is back at it again this year with 'The Perfect LUV' (Review)

Lil Uzi Vert is back at it again this year with 'The Perfect LUV' (Review)

rhymejunkie.com — Similar to older NBA players on Stephen Curry's negative influence on the future of basketball, stubborn old-heads feel the same way about each new rappers like Lil Uzi Vert. Often, they see 21-and-under MC's crashing the blogosphere. "Kids these days," you'll hear them utter. "They don't know the fundamentals!"
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Drake will release 'Views' and his most recent three albums on vinyl

Drake will release 'Views' and his most recent three albums on vinyl

rhymejunkie.com — Are you a Drake fan? No? Well, thanks for clicking. For those Drake fans who are also vinyl owners, prepare for a joyous October 24. Drake's previous three efforts ( Views, What a Time To Be Alive and If You're Reading This It's Too Late) are getting the wax treatment via Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records.
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DJ Concept releases "The Looking Glass" featuring Rome Clientel and B. Marshall from 'Flight Patt...

DJ Concept releases "The Looking Glass" featuring Rome Clientel and B. Marshall from 'Flight Patt...

rhymejunkie.com — DJ Concept is ready to fly again with "The Looking Glass" which is the first single from his upcoming album Flight Patterns 2. Put this on, close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting in the window seat, starting out at the night sky while everyone around you in the cabin sleeps.
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Is Lil Wayne retiring because he is mad at Birdman? Kendrick Lamar hopes not

Is Lil Wayne retiring because he is mad at Birdman? Kendrick Lamar hopes not

rhymejunkie.com — You've probably heard that Lil Wayne hinted at retirement in a series of frustrated tweets where he proclaimed his mental fatigue. Wayne's been rapping as a professional since he was 15 years old. Do you blame him for getting tired of rapping and all the nonsense in the music industry?
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A Notorious B.I.G. show is coming soon to TBS thanks to Mass Appeal Records

A Notorious B.I.G. show is coming soon to TBS thanks to Mass Appeal Records

rhymejunkie.com — Okay, what's everyone's favorite Notorious B.I.G. song? I'll go first: "You're Nobody (Til Somebody Develops a Scripted Series Based on Your Lyrics in 2016)." Wait, how did he know? Variety reports that the new show, , is about " the misadventures of an inner-city teen desperately trying to create a better future for his daughter and infant son will air on TBS."
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The new Jay Z album has a name, Jermaine Dupri says, but what is it?

The new Jay Z album has a name, Jermaine Dupri says, but what is it?

rhymejunkie.com — Jay Z's new album has a name: [redacted because we don't know] but you know who does know? Your friendly, neighborhood Jermaine Dupri. Speaking with Rap Radar, Dupri dropped this tantalizing nugget of information. Apparently, Jay told him at a recent Beyoncé show.
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Blu and Nottz return with new EP 'Titans in the Flesh' (Review)

Blu and Nottz return with new EP 'Titans in the Flesh' (Review)

rhymejunkie.com — On Blu & Nottz' Gods in the Spirit follow-up Titans in the Flesh, the duo traverses the past, the future and the otherworldly to survive our present. With everything that has happened this year, society feels like it's in total, utter chaos and unfathomable despair without daylight in sight.
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Jazz Cartier pays tribute to Lil' Wayne with new song 'Lil Wayne'

Jazz Cartier pays tribute to Lil' Wayne with new song 'Lil Wayne'

rhymejunkie.com — Rhyme Junkie favorite Jazz Cartier is having a hell of year. First, his performance at this year's SXSW went off the Richter Scale , and now he's got the Weezy Bump. Cartier's new tribute to Wayne ("Lil Wayne") premiered on the OVO Beats 1 radio show with much fanfare.
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'Run the Jewels' movie has nothing to do with Run the Jewels. What?

'Run the Jewels' movie has nothing to do with Run the Jewels. What?

rhymejunkie.com — The Hollywood Reporter broke news that Universal and Kevin Hart are now developing a pitch for a movie written by Alex Blagg and Neel Shah called Run the Jewels . "You mean, like, Run the Jewels?" The entire world asked in unison.
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Samiyam, Earl Sweatshirt drop a very trippy new 'Mirror' music video

Samiyam, Earl Sweatshirt drop a very trippy new 'Mirror' music video

rhymejunkie.com — The video for "Mirror" from producer Samiyam's Stones Throw début Animals Have Feelings is a brief, visceral experience. Animated visuals pulling from bizarre 1940s shorts, the LCD-addled mind of a 1970s freebird, underground 80s comics, and 2016's surreal madness go with Earl Sweatshirt's tight rhyming over Samiyam's crackly beat.
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Blu and Nottz release first single 'Atlantis' from new EP 'Titans in the Flesh'

Blu and Nottz release first single 'Atlantis' from new EP 'Titans in the Flesh'

rhymejunkie.com — Bust out your JanSport backpacks because Blu & Nottz are back with Titans in the Flesh - the follow-up to their 2013 EP Gods in the Spirit. "Atlantis" gives us the first taste of another lofty collaboration between these two fantastic hip hop stars. Lyrically, more meets the eardrums as Blu plays with extreme.
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New Wu-Tang Clan, Bill Murray musical creates internet controversy

New Wu-Tang Clan, Bill Murray musical creates internet controversy

rhymejunkie.com — You better protect ya neck, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, because musical theater is now going Shaolin style. Two NYC artists, Joel Esher (a composer and musical producer) and Laura Gundrum (a lyricist) are creating a musical based on Martin Shkreli's purchase of the two million dollar Wu-Tang album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin.
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