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A little over halfway into the year, Barack Obama has finally shared his song of the summer picks with us.
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Hey, everyone. Anthony Fantano here, the Internet's busiest music nerd. And I have some pretty bad news for you. You may have been enjoying our time here together, doing what we do, you know, just, like, getting comfortable, eating stuff out of my fridge. And look, while there
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Making a Valentine’s Day playlist is a regular thing here at The Needle Drop. Last year’s featured just about everything from Run the Jewels to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, but this year Anthony pretty much had his heart stuck on one genre — soul. So what you’
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Today Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, and pop innovator Björk celebrates her 50th birthday. In honor of this occasion, we’ve compiled the above career-spanning playlist for newcomers or those who just would like an overview of her catalog. This set was probably the hardest one yet to sequence, as over the
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It’s high time that we devote one of these playlist features to perhaps the most important era in hip hop’s history, its Golden Age. Centered on the East Coast and spanning the mid-80s to the early-90s, the golden age of hip hop was a time of creative innovation,
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We’ve been in a pretty noisy mood lately. Last week we brought you a sprawling noise rock playlist and now you’re getting a 2.5-hour-long set of tracks from the master of harsh noise, Masami Akita (b.k.a. Merzbow). In a sense he is the perfect subject
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For this month’s genre playlist, we’ve put together a little something for those of you who prefer your rock music dissonant and in shambles. Here’s a sprawling set of 21 noise rock tracks we dig, lasting an hour-and-3/4. That’s just a case of tinnitus waiting
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2015 has been a very busy year for singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek – since the release of Universal Themes (his seventh album with Sun Kil Moon), he has announced a new EP and spoken word project due out in October via his Caldo Verde label, as well as a full-length collaboration with
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Say what you will about Serge Gainsbourg, that he and his music were overly lewd or whatever; he was arguably the most significant voice in 20th century French pop music. Even when he was penning albums comprised mostly of shit humor (Vu de l’extérieur), the man was delivering some
