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Lou Reed Drops Off Coachella

If you’re making the trek out to Indio, Cal. for Coachella with the aim of seeing the legendary Lou Reed perform, you may want to make other arrangements. The former Velvet Underground frontman has cancelled […]

2013/03/27

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Premiere Provocative & Twisted ‘Sacrilege’ Video: Watch

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs continue their march towards Mosquito, the band’s first new album in four years with a thought-provoking music video for the lead single, “Sacrilege.” Featuring model turned actress Lily Cole (she starred […]

2013/03/26

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Phoenix To Premiere First Single From ‘Bankrupt’ Monday

The French band responsible for alternative smashes “1901” and “Lisztomania,” from their GRAMMY-winning Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, officially announced today that they will release the first single from their new album on Monday, February 18 around […]

2013/02/15

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The Postal Service Returns! [Listen]

If you go way back with Death Cab For Cutie, then you know all about Ben Gibbard‘s side project, The Postal Service.  Ben, along with Jimmy Tamborello, released an album back in 2003 (Give Up) […]

WXRT–2013/02/15

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More Details Emerge About New Phoenix Album, “Bankrupt!”

There has been a lot of excitement for the next album from French rock band, Phoenix, especially after they received so much critical acclaim for Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix in 2009. The album was also loved […]

2013/02/12

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Will Daft Punk Join Phoenix Onstage At Coachella 2013? It’s Happened Before…

Now that the long-awaited line-up for the 2013 edition of the wildly popular Coachella music festival has been revealed, fans and pundits are already theorizing about which act will pull off this year’s “Tupac Hologram […]

2013/01/28

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10 Reasons Why The Coachella 2013 Line-Up Is Better Than You Think

While immediate opinions have been decidedly mixed regarding this year’s Coachella line-up (which is to be expected, given the tsunami of rumors that had both the Rolling Stones and Daft Punk as virtual locks this […]

2013/01/28

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Governors Ball Line-up Announced: New York On Heightened Indie Rock Alert

Time to cash in those airlines miles and reserve your flight to New York’s hipster heaven; while West Coast music obsessives are so thirsty for this year’s Coachella line-up that fans are creating fake newspaper […]

2013/01/24

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The Rolling Stones Not Playing Coachella – But Is Another U.S. Festival On Their Itinerary?

Despite rampant rumors to the contrary, The Rolling Stones will apparently not play at Coachella music festival in Indio, California this April. Mick Jagger reportedly told the U.K.’s NME, “We’re not gonna do Coachella, ‘cos […]

2013/01/22

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Phoenix Releases New Album Title With Seizure-Inducing Website Teaser

Phoenix, the critically acclaimed French band that broke out big-time with their 2009 full-length, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, recently announced their imminent return with a new album scheduled for release in April of this year. Now […]

2013/01/16

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