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Gotye in Traffic, Skrillex the Board Game, El-P on 'Letterman' & More -- NEWS!

  • Posted on May 16th 2012 3:30PM by Theo Spielberg
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Check out Jeff the Brotherhood's new Dan Auerbach-produced jam "Sixpack." Do it. [Spin]

Name 10 things that aren't Skrillex. It's harder than you think. [Antiquiet]

Gotye has everyday applications! [Out-Gayed-Myself]

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Dropkick Murphys: Pro-Union Punks Slam Republican for Using Their Song in Rally

  • Posted on May 16th 2012 2:30PM by Jason MacNeil
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You have to give American politicians some credit as it's been several weeks since anyone's been caught using an artist's music without permission. But according to Punknews that streak came to an end over the weekend when Boston band Dropkick Murphys called out Wisconsin Republican Jeff Fitzgerald for using "Shipping Up to Boston" in a campaign stop.

"We just got word that Wisconsin State Rep and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald used 'Shipping Up to Boston' as his walk-on song yesterday at the Wisconsin GOP Convention in Green Bay," the band wrote in a Facebook post. "The stupidity and irony of this is laughable. A Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate -- and crony of anti-Union Governor Scott Walker -- using a Dropkick Murphy song as an intro is like a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap!"

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This Week in Music History: May 13 - 19 -- Ian Curtis and Frank Sinatra Died, Tom Petty Survived, Britney Spears Lied

  • Posted on May 16th 2012 2:00PM by Aaron Brophy
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When you're listening to your iTunes on shuffle and it kicks out Interpol, the Bravery or She Wants Revenge, you probably have a hard time distinguishing between them, right? We don't mean to beat a 2006-era joke into the ground, but they all do sound kinda the same. Which is quite unlike their spiritual fathers, '70s British post-punkers Joy Division.

Now that's a band that still sounds unique to this day. Perhaps that's why Disney has gone so far as to cop Joy Division style for shirts, why there are Joy Division walking tours, or why former Joy Division bassist Peter Hook continues desperately selling himself on the back of the band's ghost.

To read about why Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis, Happy Mondays' Shaun Ryder, Britney Spears and more made music history this week click to launch the gallery below.

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Donovan Q&A, on Dylan Rivalry, Helping Paul McCartney Write 'Yellow Submarine'

  • Posted on May 16th 2012 1:00PM by David Chiu
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Forty-seven years after the release of his first single, "Catch the Wind," Donovan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Coinciding with the honor was the release of a double-disc compilation of his music, The Essential Donovan, which covers the years 1965 to 1973, and contains four songs that had either not been issued in the U.S. or available in the U.S. in CD form.

Donovan, who turned 66 on May 10, says that he has been inspired him to perform live again, which he'll be doing this summer and in the fall. During a visit to New York, he spoke to Spinner about being inducted into the Rock Hall, the new anthology set, the early days with Bob Dylan, his friendship with the Beatles, and his involvement with the David Lynch Foundation, which promotes Transcendental Meditation.


Congratulations on your recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. How does it feel to finally get in?

Awards have been coming as the work gains in weight and critical acclaim and historical meaning. But this one is the largest, it's more like an Academy Award because so few are awarded every year and it's by our peers. This, for me, is important because from the very early day of committing myself to being a voice for a generation -- and I did intend that -- because I came from the tradition of folk music, introducing ideas from Bohemia and what we called the underground ideas that I felt were needed by the millions of young people in the world to save this planet from absolute destruction, deterioration, pollution and poison from a modern age.

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School Knights, 'Powerslut' Video Premiere: Gender-Role Criticism and Whiskey

  • Posted on May 16th 2012 11:24AM by Cameron Matthews
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Sometimes, chillin' with the gals is the best way to spend a school night, especially when that beeotch "Jennifer" is at a super cool show and forgot to invite you. How do you "forget" to invite someone?

School Knights, Boulder, Colo.'s handsome new noise-rock quartet, are tearing down gender roles in their new video for "Powerslut." The Zack Roif and Dan Anson-directed video features the rock outfit dressed in drag, ready for a night of heavy boozing and gal-paling.

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Jack Black: Tenacious D Album Better Than Jack White, Foo Fighters and Gotye Records Combined

  • Posted on May 16th 2012 11:23AM by Kenneth Partridge
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Listenable though they may be, Jack Black says, the recent offerings from Jack White, Tom Waits, the Foo Fighters and Gotye all share one thing in common: They're not as good as the new Tenacious D album, Rize of the Fenix.

"I do love [Jack White's] "Blunderbuss," I love the Foo, I love Tom Waits, his new record is incredible ... and Goyte ... but our album is better than all of those, and because we're clowns, we don't get that kind of love," Black said in an interview with Reuters, talking up his comedy-rock duo's third full-length.

"In a hundred years' time, no one will remember Gotye or the rest, but the shining beacon of The D -- they're going to start religions after us," he added.

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Company, 'Something About You' -- Free MP3 Download

  • Posted on May 16th 2012 10:00AM by Cameron Matthews
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Artist: Company
Hail From: Charleston, S.C.
Song: 'Something About You'
Album: 'Dear America,'
Sounds Like: The Shins, Dinosaur Jr.

In Their Words: "Theres that scene in the 'Starsky & Hutch' movie where Ben Stiller is messed up on cocaine and Owen Wilson plays that one song and there's cartoon birds flying around his head ... Well, I always dug that song and it was in my head when I wrote 'Something About You.' I wanted it to sound like T. Rex during the verses then the chorus ending with a loud Dinosaur Jr. type of distortion." -- Singer Brian Hannon

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