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BEHOLD THE COACHELLA 2010 LINEUP

January 19th, 2010 · 8 Comments

Buy Coachella 2010 Tickets Here Friday, April 16th: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, [...]

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MP3: WALE "PRESCRIPTION"

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Download: Wale “Prescription” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (off Attention Deficit out Nov 2nd on All I Do / Interscope) Read: WALE: MAKE MUSIC BE INTERESTING AGAIN

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SNEAKER PIMPS @ THE VANGUARD

May 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Bowel-rattling bass during the Sneaker Pimps event at The Vanguard may have melted attendees’ brains, rendering them unable to respond to complex stimuli. There doesn’t seem to be another viable explanation for why a room chock full of hip hop (and fancy sneaker) fans stood motionless and looking vaguely confused through a raunchy performance from 88-Keys and a blazing freestyle and several lectures from Wale about how embarrassingly catatonic they were.

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THE BUDOS BAND: IT STINKS LIKE THE REST OF US

April 16th, 2009 · No Comments

The Budos Band are an eleven-piece (and sometimes larger) instrumental funk-soul-Ethiopiques-style band from Shaolin—Staten Island—who recently had a song appear on Wale’s Mixtape About Nothing and who name all their albums in numerical sequence, although they are considering skipping III just to torture people. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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ISSUE 12 RELEASE PARTY AT CHA CHA!

February 9th, 2009 · No Comments

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WALE: MAKE MUSIC BE INTERESTING AGAIN

January 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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