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20 Songs You Need To Listen To Now (June 2013)

We expose another goodie bag of vices featuring new tracks from Washed Out, O’Brother, Danny Brown and the Arctic Monkeys.

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Seven EDM Addicts You’ll Meet At Digital Dreams

Electronic music festivals go with summer like peanut butter goes with jelly, which is pretty damn well. Then there’s these guys…

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Stream Make Do And Mend And The Flatliners’ New Split 7″

Thanks to the folks at Rise Records, Make Do And Mend and The Flatliners have released a new split 7-inch and it’s honestly one of the best releases you’ll hear this year. Period. Plus the physical vinyl’s only $5.

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We Interviewed Drake (Well, Sort Of, But Not Really)

While playing Scrabble on an ATV somewhere in the middle of the Caribbean, we talked to Drake about his third studio LP while he responded using lyrics from his songs. Yeah this is 100% fake, but take that GQ.

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Download Killer Mike And El-P’s Run The Jewels Album

Ask any rap nerd and they’ll tell you that both Killer Mike and El-P released two of last year’s greatest hip hop records. Now they’ve released their joint album for free and it features Big Boi, Prince Paul and more.

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Stream letlive.’s New Album The Blackest Beautiful

The California group’s first original release for Epitaph Records jumps the Fake History ship and flirts with imagery and unsettling bursts of melodic hardcore. Did we mention their pre-order merch is awesome?

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30 Must-Hear Artists At NXNE 2013

With NXNE in full swing, here’s our definitive guide to this week’s alternative freak outs, rap gigs and intimate doses of electronic music.

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20 Songs You Need To Listen To Now (May 2013)

Introducing yet another goodie bag of vices, we present a staff-selected list of songs you may have missed this past month, featuring Deafheaven, Ellie Goulding, Wise Blood, Crocodiles and Run The Jewels.

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Lil Dicky: Your New Favourite Suburban Rapper

Instead of decking himself out in bling, riding around in Bugattis and getting girls in bikinis to dance by a pool, the Drake-worshipping Philly rapper is getting faded in his car and making viral rap videos.

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5 Best New Artists (May 2013)

Because your iTunes could probably use a hug, May’s picks introduce a few alternative noisemakers and a need-to-know MC.