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Digital Download: FLOOD Issue #9 (M.I.A. and Tenacious D Version)

Featuring cover stories on M.I.A. and Wu-Tang Clan on one side, and Tenacious D (in conversation with political cartoonist Rob Rogers) and Paul Dano on the other.

October 25, 2016

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Fly to New Orleans, See AlunaGeorge, Get a New Bike, Don’t Pay for Any of It

The “Mean What I Mean” singer plays the Smoothie King Center with Sia and Miguel on November 3.

October 19, 2016

FLOOD 5 Cover A Daveed Diggs

Art & CultureFilm + TV
Announcing FLOOD 5, Available Now for Physical Purchase and Free Download

Featuring cover stories on Daveed Diggs and Angel Olsen.

October 18, 2016

ONE TIME USE ONLY Kate Bush 1978 Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

LISTEN: Kate Bush Shares the Concluding “Prologue” to Her Forthcoming Three-Disc Live Album

“Before the Dawn” was compiled from her residency at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, and will be out December 2 via Concord/Fish People.

September 29, 2016

PAPA / photo by Dan Regan

PREMIERE: PAPA Take You to Church in “Comfort’s a Killer” Video

From the band’s new album “Kick at the Dust.”

September 26, 2016

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Art & Culture
Distant Camera: Henry Diltz’s Portraits of Neil Young, 1966–1975

The legendary rock photographer shares intimate shots of one of his greatest subjects.

September 20, 2016

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LISTEN: Zack de la Rocha Returns (with El-P!) for “Digging for Windows”

The long-awaited solo LP from the Rage Against the Machine frontman should be here very soon.

September 08, 2016
PREMIERE: Orchin’s Smogcutting “If I Ever” Single Channels Flying Nun, Ariel Pink

The LA singer and musician drops the b-side to his recent single.

September 08, 2016

Nouvelle Vague / photo by Julian Marshall

PREMIERE: Nouvelle Vague Return with “Athol Brose” EP, Video

The masters of the unexpected cover will also be releasing a new album in November.

September 01, 2016

LONDON – NOVEMBER 05: Neil Young performs live on stage with the Santa Monica Flyers at The Rainbow Theatre in London on November 05 1973 during the Tonight’s The Night Tour. Billy Talbot on bass guitar (Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns)

Tired Eyes: An Appreciation of Neil Young’s Ditch Trilogy

Reeling from the overdose deaths of guitarist Danny Whitten and roadie Bruce Berry, Neil Young entered the darkest—and perhaps most compelling—period of his career.

September 01, 2016
Events
Iceland Airwaves Adds Ben Frost to 2016 Lineup with a Droll Arctic Smile

The full lineup for this year’s Airwaves has now been revealed.

August 31, 2016

Boulevards at SXSW for Original Tracks

PREMIERE: Boulevards Doesn’t Need a Funky Drummer in “Got to Go” for Original Tracks

The foremost follower of the funk strips down his hottest single.

August 30, 2016
Events
Fixate: Backstage with Preoccupations at FYF

Photographer Rozette Rago hung with the band formerly known as Viet Cong as they prepared to take the stage at Expo Park on Sunday.

August 30, 2016

The crowd at FYF Fest / photo by Rozette Rago

Events
5 Under-the-Radar Acts to Catch at FYF Fest

Like you need someone to tell you to see Kendrick.

August 26, 2016

Photo by Imeh Bryant for The Paley Center

Art & CultureFilm + TV
Disappoint Your Mom and Recreate Your Favorite “South Park” Scenes at LA’s Paley Center

The South Park 20 Experience comes to the media organization’s Los Angeles branch.

August 24, 2016
Live Stream Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak Twentieth Anniversary Stage this Saturday at Electric Zoo: Wild Island

Aoki has been throwing cakes for longer than you realized.

August 20, 2016

photo by Daniel Cavazos

Events
LIVE, IN PHOTOS: Eaux Claires (8/12–13/2016)

Justin Vernon takes us deep into the Wisco woods.

August 16, 2016
Staff Picks
Return of the Tapes: Peeking into the Window of Five of the Best Bedroom Artists

As these artists show, you don’t need a recording studio to make a great record.

August 10, 2016

Local Natives at FLOODfest Chicago / photo by James Richards IV

Events
RECAP: Local Natives Soar at FLOODfest Chicago

Can’t stop the music.

August 01, 2016

2016. Benoît Pioulard cred Jake Muir

PREMIERE: Benoît Pioulard Mends His Broken Bones on the Wistful “Layette”

“The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter” is out October 14 via Kranky.

July 29, 2016
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