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Bon Iver  22, A Million In an interview from 2012, at the height of Bon Iver’s promotional tour for their sophomore album, Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Justin Vernon likened his highly successful band to a faucet. He proclaimed, to…

Good news! Your core NO ENCORE trio of Dave Hanratty, Colm O'Regan and Craig Fitzpatrick are back together as one solid, wildly charismatic and opinionated unit. On the agenda in a busy hour; movies, TV shows, comedians but mostly…

Ariana Grande Dangerous Woman Universal/Republic When Ariana Grande presented Saturday Night Live in March, she dedicated part of her opening monologue to a fun, jazzy number entitled ‘What Will My Scandal Be?’. Hazards that have…

ZAYN Mind Of Mine In describing his new album, Mind of Mine, One Direction alumni Zayn Malik - aka ZAYN -  has cited a number of interesting artists as being influential on his first solo effort: Tupac Shakur, R Kelly, Prince…

LNZNDRF LNZNDRF LNZNDRF (pronounced “Lan-zen-dorf”) relish their side project status. The vowel-phobic trio, made up of The National’s Devendorf brothers and Ben Lanz of Beirut, giddily absorb sounds and genres that would not be so…

Animal Collective Painting With There’s an interesting caution from Animal Collective on ‘The Burglars’, buried in the middle of Painting With - “What you think you own you don’t/ Watch out the burglars.” Is it a reference to sampling…

Fat White Family Songs for Our Mothers At some point in the wake of their 2013 debut album Champagne Holocaust, somebody accused Fat White Family of being fascists. Far for attempting any kind of ham-fisted damage control, the Brixton…

Welcome to the Time Out of Mind listening guide. First, pat yourself on the back. You dug way past the easy self-righteousness of 64’s Times They Are a-Changin’ and didn’t stop at the travelogues of 75’s Desire. You even shrugged your…

January 13th 1968. Johnny Cash walked through the gates of one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Cash was present not as an inmate, but to record an album that would become one of his most famous pieces of work. Johnny…

I can see this being a very over-excited and potentially nonsensical post. However, it's happening. Thom Yorke, who I think we can all agree, is the best thing in the world ever. Or, at the very least, he's good at music. And surprises. I…