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Single-handedly responsible for popularizing dubstep, an electronic music subgenre characterized by ricocheting drum and bass riffs (think drum ’n’ bass, only trippier), Sonny Moore (aka Skrillex) has already won six Grammys ov...
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Since 2009 director Amma Asante has been trying to make Belle, a film based on Misan Sagay’s script about Dido Belle, a woman of mixed race who grew up in England during a time when slavery was still legal. Raised by her father...
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Singer-songwriter Neko Case got her start playing in punk bands in British Columbia. She eventually would embrace an alt-country sound with 1997’s The Virginian. She hasn’t looked back. Her latest album, last year’s The Worse T...
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British producer Alan Parsons is perhaps best known as the guy who engineered Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon. Parsons, who got his start at as an assistant engineer at the famed Abbey Road Studios, worked on The Bea...
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Released earlier this year, †††’s self-titled debut album features another side of singer Chino Moreno. While Moreno is known for, as he puts it, “screaming his head off” with the heavy-hitting Deftones, he tones th...
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After original singer Layne Staley died in 2002, it wasn’t certain that grunge icons Alice in Chains would continue. Yet the band persevered, regrouping in 2005 and recruiting powerhouse vocalist William DuVall to take his plac...
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On Mogwai’s eighth studio album Rave Tapes, the band delivers another set of compelling mood-altering, mostly instrumental tunes. Mogwai wrote and recorded Rave Tapes at the band’s Castle Of Doom studios in Glasgow, Scotland, w...
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To hear frontman Todd Fink tell it, indie rockers the Faint almost called it quits after releasing their last studio effort, 2008’s Fasciinatiion. But the band reconvened last year to record their new album, Doom Abuse, a colle...
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Singer-guitarist Holly Golightly‘s punk rock ethos was instilled in her years ago in the UK, where she joined outsider artist and poet Billy Childish in his garage rocking act the Delmonas, which then became Thee Headcoat...
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A fascinating documentary about a nanny who took more than 100,000 photographs but never had a single gallery show, Finding Vivian Maier grew out of John Maloof’s random discovery of her negatives (he bought a box of them at an...