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  • Feb 20 2017

    Best & Worst Tracks: 2/20 (Lana Del Rey, Thundercat, Rae Sremmurd, Maroon 5)

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    The weekly segment in which Anthony touches down on some of the best and worst tracks he has heard in the past week.

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  • Feb 19 2017

    Mount Eerie - "Ravens"

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    “Ravens” is our second glimpse of Mount Eerie’s forthcoming album A Crow Looked at Me, and it’s every bit as devastating as the lead track, “Real Death.” Probably even more so when you take into account its considerably longer runtime and beautifully photographed video, which contains (among other

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  • Feb 19 2017

    Thundercat - "Friend Zone"

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    With his new single, “Friend Zone,” Thundercat stood up to Valentine’s Day bullshit with an expectedly funky and funny song about, well, being stuck in the friend zone. It’s taken from the album Drunk, out February 24 via Brainfeeder.

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  • Feb 19 2017

    Pharmakon - "No Natural Order"

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    Pharmakon’s latest single, “No Natural Order,” features what might just be her heaviest industrial noise composition and most piercing vocal performance to date. The track closes her third Sacred Bones album Contact, which drops March 31.

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  • Feb 19 2017

    Animal Collective - "Kinda Bonkers"

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    This past week, Animal Collective released The Painters, an EP of four tracks recorded during the sessions of their latest album Painting With (review). You can hear the opening track above; to our ears it’s a lot more stimulating than a lot of the material that made it onto

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  • Feb 17 adele

    FOREVER DISAPPOINTING: A 59th Grammy Awards Recap

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    My thoughts on the numerous and to-be-expected disappointments the Grammy’s dished out in their recent awards ceremony. And I’m just talking winners and losers here; don’t even get me started on the Chainsmokers accepting Bowie’s posthumous award. Don’t!

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  • Feb 16 Album Reviews

    Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often

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    Though Being You Is Great… contains some of Quelle Chris’ most obtuse material, it is also the Detroit MC’s most ambitious and cohesive album yet.

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  • Feb 15 Album Reviews

    Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now

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    While Jesca Hoop’s latest album does lack a strong sense of identity, its well-crafted songs and beautifully simple instrumentation are more than enough to make it one of the better singer-songwriter releases 2017.

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  • Feb 14 Album Reviews

    Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Light

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    DROGAS Light is one of Lupe Fiasco’s better attempts at making an album with pop appeal, though it still pales in comparison to his more progressive work like Tetsuo & Youth.

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  • Feb 13 2017

    Lil Yachty: Rap's Punk Phase

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    Anthony explains why he believes Lil Yachty’s rudimentary approach to hip hop represents a punk phase for the genre.

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