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Foals: What Went Down
Since their global debut in 2008, English band Foals has released raucous, nuanced and thoughtful music worth moving one’s body to. Today, 28 August 2015, they’ve dropped their fourth full-length album, What …
Via newyorker.com
Risky Business: The Teenage Brain
“Nothing—whether it’s being with your friends, having sex, licking an ice cream cone, zipping along in a convertible on a warm summer evening, hearing your favorite music—will ever feel as good as …
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10 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Before the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina hit 10 years ago, New Orleans was a dramatically different city. There are now 100,000 fewer black residents living there and property prices are increasing, but new …
Converse Rubber Tracks Studio Takeover
84 artists will gain access to Abbey Road Studios, Sunset Sound, Jamaica's Tuff Gong and more
Junior Boys: What You Won’t Do For Love
Junior Boys are back from their “hibernation,” as they’ve Tweeted, with an electronic music-driven cover of Bobby Caldwell’s “What You Won’t Do For Love.” It’s very fitting—as the opening lyrics are “I …
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Tennis, Black Excellence and Serena Williams
In her beautifully thoughtful article about Serena Williams for the New York Times, poet and playwright Claudia Rankine profiles the already legendary tennis player and all that she represents. Explaining how Williams …
Kinfolk Brooklyn’s ‘I Know You Know’ Exhibition
A group art show contrasting ambiguity and identity
Sampa the Great: The Great Mixtape
For “The Great Mixtape,” poet and vocalist Sampa the Great sings and rhymes with a political conscience, dragging words out slowly or stuttering them out rapid fire over producer Godriguez’s jazzy beats. …
Petite Noir: MDR
Describing his sound as “Noirwave,” Cape Town-based singer and producer Petite Noir (aka Yannick Ilunga) is set to release his album La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful next month. From …