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Hannibal Buress played drums for Speedy Ortiz at SXSW
Photo via Pitchfork. UPDATE: There are now full videos of two songs with Hannibal Buress on drums for Speedy Ortiz, via Pitchfork: "If you fuck this up we're not going to get discovered this year."...
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Let’s all live vicariously through this SXSW 2015 video roundup
Photo by Paul Carter via Stereogum. We get it. Every morsel of music news is about SXSW. Your buddies are there. Your favourite band is there. You've been pretending all this time that you don't care,...
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10 Best Songs of March 2015
These are our favourite songs of March 2015, no joke. The final (fingers crossed) taste of winter brought us 180-trap, elegant pop, houncy kiss-off anthems and filthy noise rock. Try to guess which is...
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Band 2 Band: The dirt on Speedy Ortiz’s embarrassing musical past
Our video series Band 2 Band helps artists learn more about each other in the most natural way we could think of: by pulling questions out of a jar and asking them to each other. Speedy Ortiz are...
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Speedy Ortiz did a Reddit AMA and we turned it into a playlist
Speedy Ortiz's new album Foil Deer is giving them the breakout success they've deserved for years. But, even while receiving glowing reviews and breathless magazine profiles, the members of the band...
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Even more Canadian festival news! POP Montreal and SappyFest enter the fray
I wore shorts the other day! I drank a beer on the balcony! Tomorrow, I might just hang out in a park, like, for fun. Let's celebrate that climbing mercury with a fresh rundown of Canadian festival...
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EXPOSURES: The magic of SappyFest X caught on film
EXPOSURES captures the moods and experiences of fans and artists, both onstage and off. This time, Colin Medley traveled somewhere he's been many times before, this time with a bagful of film, as...
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FULL SCREEN: Shamir takes the world by UFO, Wavves impresses The Iron Sheik
Full Screen is our rumination on the remarkable music videos of the day. Today, Wavves gets EXTREME, Shamir drops his mixtape (literally), and Speedy Ortiz go to camp. It's a good one! Wavves, "Way Too...
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Father John Misty’s I Love You, Honeybear and counterculture’s quaint...
The Albums That Defined 2015 explores how this year's most influential records have shaped and reflected the wider music landscape. Today, how pop and indie are blurring together. Or at least meeting...
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12 of Our Favourite Artist Portraits of 2015
EXPOSURES captures the moods and experiences of fans and artists, both onstage and off. My entire summer was one big blur. Between June and the beginning of August, I was at a music festival every...
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You missed a lot of music this long weekend
Now Hear This is a daily dive into the standout songs of the day. Today, fuck it, here's 12 things. If you're anything like me, you spent your long weekend as far away from your day job as possible....
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Modern Baseball have created a hotline to ensure the safety of their fans on...
Tonight Modern Baseball will kick off their tour with Joyce Manor and Thin Lips in Nashville, Tennessee. The hefty 34-date road trip is in support of Holy Ghost, MoBo's recently released third album, a...
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Win 2 tickets to see Guided By Voices, Built To Spill, and more at Sled Island
In its 10 years, Calgary's Sled Island Music & Arts Festival has established itself as one of the country's premiere music festivals, programming alt icons beside Canada's best 'n' brightest and...
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Toronto venues are banding together to prevent sexual harassment and assault...
Pictured: Double Double Land A handful of venue operators, a festival organizer, some musicians and a couple of journalists cluster together around a long kitchen table at Double Double Land, a DIY...
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Oh, you’re still here? Then here’s all the new music
Now Hear This is a daily dive into the standout songs of the day. Today: if it seems like new music has come to a standstill, PR companies clocking out early for the holidays, you're mostly right. We...
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The music trends of 2016
A lot happened in 2016. Some of it was wonderful. Some of it was heartbreaking. Our news department decided to memorialize what seemed like an especially tumultuous year by picking out the broader...
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