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Every successive song by Albert Hammond Jr. feels like a natural progression of itself. For someone whose solo career has...
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Vanessa is a music critic based in New York City.
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We're excited to premiere the exclusive footage of Los Wálters at House of Creatives. The band's beach synth sound set the tone for the next one to come!
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Whenever I needed the reminder to fight, I turned to Blood Orange's 'Freetown Sound' for its answers, questions, its existence rooted firmly in resistance.
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3 years since any new material, The Strokes' 'Future Present Past' came in the form of answers to the following questions - who were we back then? What are we doing now? Where are we going?
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A chat with Gordon Raphael on "Modern Girls & Old-Fashioned Men", the magic behind The Strokes fifteen years on, and almost being a member of Nirvana (so many people can say that, right?)
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KEEP GOING This week, Mitski blew the crowd at Gramps away with a stellar performance. The show opened with Weaves, a Toronto-based indie rock quartet who set the night off on an electrifying start, followed by Fear of Men, an English dreampop female-fronted band who converted every person in the...
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THE HOC FESTIVAL 2016 On November 18 and 19, The HoC festival hits the shores of Miami. House of Creatives Music...
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NEW TERRITORY AHEAD The year 2001 in New York City was undoubtedly defined by the rise of The Strokes. Their...
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RAW INTIMACY Even if you don’t recall his name, you’ve definitely heard Greg Rogove‘s work before. The LA-based songwriter brought us much-loved experimental surf rock band Megapuss along with Devendra Banhart and Fabrizio Moretti (of The Strokes) and has collaborated with everyone from Unknown Mortal Orchestra to Beck. He is now making music...
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NOT YOUR TYPICAL GARAGE ROCK BAND On the second day of III Points Festival, I had the opportunity to catch...
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III POINTS FESTIVAL, MIAMI Last weekend, III Points Festival brought Miami some much-needed sunshine on it’s triumphant fourth-year return. With...
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HEADS UP Time passes. This is an indisputable fact, and if you’re anything like me, you might even worry that your favorite music might outgrow you – not the other way around – but that our beloved artists might find themselves maturing down a much more different twisted path while we...
