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

Messing with nostalgia, we pay homage to the old days and introduce a staff-selected list of songs you may have missed this month.

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40 Must-Haves For Record Store Day 2013

Going for the throat with The White Stripes, Deftones, Notorious B.I.G. and the Drive OST, Record Store Day is not kidding around.

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5 Best New Artists (April 2013)

With the summer being mapped out, April’s picks will keep you busy with raw alternative punk and nostalgia-laced R&B.

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Download BLARE’s SXSW 2013 Mixtape

For your ears only, we’ve compiled a massive tape of 40 artists worth looking up at South By Southwest, tagging rising noisemakers and more commercial names that will manhandle your iPod.

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The 20 Best SXSW 2013 Day Parties

Daft Punk, Prince, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, and David Bowie are all names that made the rounds on Twitter this past weekend but these afternoon delights at South By Southwest are no joke.

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40 Must-Hear Artists At SXSW 2013

Full of stage dives, mic drops and possible cameos from Ryan Gosling, here’s our definitive guide to Austin’s big week.

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5 Best New Artists (March 2013)

Spring hasn’t quite sprung yet but March’s choice cuts will invade your headphones with gritty garage pop, conscious East Coast rap, new era pop punk and an Australian producer that re-ups oldies.

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Why Frank Ocean Deserves A Grammy

The aspiring vocalist went from being a ghost writer to what The Village Voice called “an intuitive R&B stylist”, and he did that off a mixtape. Don’t kill his vibe 2013. Just give him the gramophone he deserves.

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Why Dave Grohl Will Always Be Rad

In case it’s been a while since you’ve involuntarily thought to yourself, “Man, Dave Grohl is so rad!”, you might want to dig into the buzz surrounding a new documentary that goes by the name of Sound City.

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30 Artists To Watch In 2013

The new “wave” of artists has now become a full-blown tsunami with Godzilla slamdancing at the helm.