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If you're heading to The Gorge for Sasquatch! this weekend, you probably already know to check out Sigur Rós, Vampire Weekend, Tame Impala, and other live favorites. But, as with Coachella , there are some hidden gems of the festival that you need to check out. Some are groups on the verge of breaking through, some are already great bands that just got a bum set time, and others are already popular artists who are going to have some special things in this setting that you may not have realized. So click here to start [...]

Tom Hawking's list of 50 albums everyone needs to own , with the caveat that he selected one album per year from 1963-2013 is the rarest of lists. It's both a comprehensive musical overview of the last half century, touching on many necessary albums and cross-polluting plenty of genres, but it's also one that is well argued and opens the door for alternative possibilities. Plus, there are a few nice surprises sprinkled in, especially in the aughts. That's a hard decade to select because we don't have the time and retrospectiveness (is that [...]

With all the fanfare surrounding their comeback smash “Get Lucky” and this week's release of Random Access Memories , it’s easy to forget that French house ambassadors Daft Punk have been around for nearly two decades. Thanks to a sound that’s always been ahead of the curve (and robot helmets to mask any wrinkles), the duo of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter seem positively ageless more than 15 years after they first wowed us with their debut, Homework . That they’re [...]

We're like three days away from Random Access Memories, but guess what, there's a cavalcade of dope music that's dropped/dropping that has nothing to do with the androids. Don't believe me? Just watch.

There I was, somewhere on the 134 heading West, trying in vain (again) to get all the way through The Invisible Way, when I started to wonder, "This is easily the WORST studio album Low has released, right? I mean…it has to be. What's worse than this?" And I drove, and I thought, and for [...]

• Low - stay

Sebadoh were something of the “Beautiful Losers” of the ’90s indie scene. Lou Barlow emerged from Northamption hardcore act Deep Wound, and later Dinosaur Jr., having famously been acrimoniously dismissed from the latter. He’d certainly borrow from J Mascis’s pop instincts, as well as Deep Wound’s wonton aggression, throughout Sebadoh’s existence, while perfecting the art of the sensitive yet self-deprecating indie ballad. Read More...

It's kind of a stretch to connect James Murphy's most recent dismissal of an LCD Soundsystem reunion with the release of “ Get Lucky ", which happened within a few days of each other, but it's still worth noting. After all, it has now been seven years since Murphy waited "seven years and fifteen days" (another reference from a self-consciously referential band, this time to German trance outfit Groove Coverage's "7 Years and 50 Days" from the year before) to play Daft Punk at his house party. Even if Murphy says, once and for all, that [...]

Since our last pairing , a number of fantastic releases have hit the shelves. A highly anticipated Daft Punk album, a stunning Vampire Weekend full-length, and perhaps the finest 2013 free release thus far in Chance The Rapper's Acid Rap, are just some of the releases we considered. And we such a refreshing month of music upon us, we took it upon ourselves to pair said albums with equally tasty brews. And, just like last week, feel free to add any of your own pairings in the comments section below. Navigate through the pages [...]

The recent business failures of Rick Ross and Lil Wayne show the ugly side of hip hop’s unstable relationship with the business world. Rappers who are already conditioned to be business savvy make bank off of endorsements and investments. However, even with all the hustle hip-hop tries to teach there are some inevitable mishaps from even the most familiar of stars.                                   8 Business Endorsement Fails of Raps Biggest stars [...]

Words By AJ + Preezy Da Kid You ever watch an old movie or show set in the future and think, "I wish I had a time machine"? For all the technological advances we've made, you'd think we'd have some of these things already, but we don't and it f*cking sucks. Seriously, science, what gives? So before you head to the theaters this weekend to check out the latest Star Trek movie (or a third viewing of Iron Man), take a look at these 10 fictional [...]

Close to seven years ago, I wrote a piece for Earvolution entitled The Ten Greatest Books About Rock And Roll. Motivated by arrogance, entitlement and a desire to prove that Largehearted Boy wasn’t the only Internet journalist that reads, I felt perfectly comfortable in proclaiming a finite set of books as the elite strata of rock and roll journalism. In a revelation that should surprise no one, I was quickly disabused of the motion that I covered the subject adequately. Even subjective endeavors such as “best of” lists can have some objectively egregious omissions. [...]

Dear Rev. Run, Out of respect for you and the invaluable contributions to our culture, we tried turning a blind eye to the gloriously thick woman your daughter has become, but we can't anymore. We just can't. Angela might still be daddy’s little girl to you, but to us she’s a grown 25-year-old woman, ripe for picking! We won’t try our hand by going on about how our nether regions are filled with desire for Angela (and your other daughter Vanessa , too). Instead, we're just going to quietly stare at these [...]

Unfortunately, Lower Frequencies will have to go on a month long hiatus from posting. I'll be in India for a few weeks and internet cafes don't exactly do the trick. Anyways, listen up on the new LPs from Vampire Weekeend and The National and we will be back in no time.

You've got all day tomorrow to honor your moms for the love and shit she's given you. Hopefully you're already doing that shit for most of the year. Cut the nonsense out, though; this is your Saturday. Turn up and get involved. Or sit around, be lazy, and crack open some ice cream. Gorge yourself.

Eater.com has generously researched and posted 23 of the most buzzed-about specialty doughnut shops across the United States. Most of these establishments have opened over the last twelve months. These include Umami founder Adam Fleischman's doughnut concept inside a concept (Umamicatessen), two brand new fried-chicken-and-doughnut restaurants in Washington, DC (GBD and Astro Doughnuts) and a second location for Philadelphia's iconic chicken-and-doughnut restaurant (Federal Donuts). There's also a scratch-doughnut shop from Portland's Micah Camden (Blue Star Donuts) and plenty of wild flavors and toppings to go around. Check out the list HERE [...]

As the release date for Daft Punk ’s highly anticipated new album Random Access Memories draws nearer, we’re reminded of all those rappers who’ve borrowed the French electro duo’s sounds in the past. (Ten bucks says will.i.am is currently trying to figure out how to make his own version of  “Get Lucky” titled “#GetPower”). Some have been more successful uses of their samples than others, but one thing’s for sure: Hip-hop loves Daft Punk. Everyone from Kanye West to Janet Jackson has aped their beats and verses, and we’ve narrowed [...]

For the first time in - dare I say months? - I took a friend's music advice and it led to me stopping by Amoeba to pick up a new LP. This happens very infrequently. Alas, the album - Excavation by The Haxan Cloak - was too good to pass up.  I know I don't typically post [...]

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• The Men - Half Angel Half Light

“I want to be the Patti Smith of now, with something like ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger’ blaring out of kids’ speakers. I fantasize about that, but I’m not going to be that. I’m just not that dangerous,” Bradford Cox told me in an interview for The Big Takeover back in 2008. While it’s defeatist to live in a world measuring yourself to your idols, Cox has carved out an idiosyncratic, challenging, and even dangerous milieu for himself making great records, from the rather underwhelming Turn It Up Faggot in 2005, on through his newest, released this [...]

Let's face it, the apocalypse is fast-approaching. And while this upcoming apocalypse could be of the world-swirling, four-horsemen-laying-waste-to- the-world variety, it's more likely that we're all just going to be chomped on by zombies (we're halfway there anyway). Hell, it may already have begun . We can't really trust the world to be smart while the apocalypse builds up, as this comic will demonstrate. If you're clued in to the rules  and keep your head about you, you might just survive. However, it's near-impossible to know when exactly the outbreak will reach your city, or when someone [...]

In celebration of #ZombieDiwas at NH7, I put together a list of the most interesting covers I could find on the internet of that legendary song. I did this because I don't know anything about zombies (unlike Siddhant Mehta ), and felt I needed to contribute towards this epic day at the NH7 office and in the world in general. Initially, I wanted to write a piece titled 'Zombie Nation' quite like our previous reads 'Metal Nation' and 'Dance Nation', but also nothing like them at all, but yeah, that didn't happen. So, I made this list [...]