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According to Soundway Records boss Miles Cleret’s liner notes to the 2008 compilation Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria, the Afrobeat movement wasn’t that nation’s most popular musical style of the […]
Ja Morant Suspended From All Team Activities After Another Gun-Flashing Video Surfaces
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The Dead C: Harsh 70s Reality
In spring 1997, when the increasingly obtuse New Zealand trio the Dead C had been releasing records and tapes for about 10 years, Pavement appeared on the cover of Pulse!, formerly the in-house promotional arm of Tower Records. […]
Brittney Griner Returns to WNBA Court for First Time Since Russian Detainment
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Animal Collective: Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished (Remastered 2023)
You probably know the story of Animal Collective, the band that started out making electronic-acoustic noise jams with lots of babbling and screaming, gradually learned to pull melodies and song structures from the iridescent muck, and […]
The Washington Commanders’ Dan Snyder Era Is Finally Over
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SPIN Sessions Presents: Jimkata
As teenagers in their early days, they jammed together in their basement doing covers of Nirvana, Rancid and Rage. Today, they’re the epic force of indie electro-rock known as Jimkata. The trio of Evan Friedell […]
Twitter Finally Agrees On Something: Hating Musk’s New CEO
In December, Elon Musk asked Twitter to vote “Yes” or “No” on the question of whether he should step down as head of the tech giant, noting that he would abide by the results of […]