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NEWS ROUNDUPKesha Vs. Dr. Luke, New Music, and MORE

New Motions Filed in Kesha / Dr. Luke Legal Battle Kesha's ongoing legal battle with Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald rages on, with a few new developments this week. Though a New York judge sided with Dr. Luke and Sony music following Kesha's 2014 allegations that the producer had drugged and assaulted...

Lindsey Rhoades

HIGH NOTESMusic Videos That Will Vicariously Get You High

Sometimes, artists drop subtle drug references in their songs that you wouldn't notice unless you carefully studied the lyrics. Other times, they put it right out there, with drug-inspired imagery splattered all over their videos. If you want to vicariously experience a trip, consider these videos...

Annie White

ONLY NOISEA Year In Song

Certain songs have a way of tangling themselves in our days, weeks, and months, eventually embedding themselves in our psyche, forever to be associated with the particular time and place in which they meant the most to us. Here, Madison looks back on 2017 by recounting the songs that dominated each...

Madison Bloom

AF 2017 IN REVIEWThe Best Live Shows of 2017

Austra @Warsaw This was my first show of 2017, unless you count sets by Janelle Monae, Alicia Keys, and Indigo Girls that dotted the Women’s March on Washington days prior. I may have been late to the game regarding Austra, a beloved Toronto band already two albums into their career, and it wasn’t...

Madison Bloom

NEWS ROUNDUPNew Singles, Bob Dylan, and Mitski

There was a ton of great new music released this week. Here’s four of the best singles we heard.

Emily Daly

NEWS ROUNDUPParquet Courts, Bernie Sanders, and Animal Collective

Parquet Courts Debut New Songs The Brooklyn-via-Texas punks performed “Dust” and “Outside” on WFUV, and also announced an upcoming album titled Human Performance. “Dust” has a loping, cowboy Western feel, spacing tendrils of guitar riffs between suffocating lyrics: “It comes through the window, it...

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWPanda Bear @ MHoW

All photos Lindsey Rhoades Blame it on the Internet: to make as big a splash as possible with a new album release, bands will try a variety of approaches. Whether that’s U2’s latest LP showing up uninvited in everyone’s iTunes, My Bloody Valentine and Beyoncé suddenly dropping fully-formed albums...

Lindsey Rhoades

INTERVIEWAvey Tare

Dave Portner is a busy guy. Under the pseudonym Avey Tare, he's acted as "de facto frontman" of Animal Collective, arguably one of the most influential groups in all of indie rock, for over a decade now. The band's prolific output represents just a fraction of his complete discography - he's...

Lindsey Rhoades

ALBUM REVIEW"Enter The Slasher House"

Avey Tare has put out some nine-odd albums with pioneering psych-electronic quartet Animal Collective, but this decade, he's focused more on solo work than he has on the band that originally made his bones. His latest creation, Slasher Flicks, feels like a deliberate push towards something new, in...

Carena Liptak

i know what you did last year.

For some, 2011 was just a year where seemingly every other girl/gay man in Brooklyn decided to shave a random swath of hair down to the scalp. But for me, it was a collection of moments that have inspired me to whole-heartedly evaluate the way I experience music and actually make something out of...

Lindsey Rhoades