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Caught in the Net: New music from Best Coast

- Source: The Independent - Music

In the lead up to the LP's release, Best Coast frontwoman Bethany Consentino has put together a Spotify playlist of music that inspired the album for The Independent: it's a laid back collection of tunes, including the likes of Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline, the Go-Gos and lots of Fleetwood Mac. Here's what Bethany Consentino had to say about the playlist: "This playlist consists of songs I listened to in my car while driving to and from the studio. I spent a lot of time in my car during the recording process, so I made sure to listen to a lot of songs that inspired me in some way. All of these songs influenced me - from the vocals, to the guitar tones, to the California sound of some of them - they all made me feel happy and energized on my way to the studio and back home again. I'd say this is a playlist of really great driving songs."

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Planet Gear: Sweet Billy Pilgrim on his dishwasher and Indian harmonium

- Source: Drowned In Sound

"I guess if we should be remembered for anything, it would be that we were the first band to perform a song featuring a plucked dishwasher and the sound of a badly fitted grill pan squeaking and rattling in its mounting, at a televised music awards ceremony. Our Twitter profile refers to us as 'serial white goods abusers,' but that's possibly disingenuous. We're prepared to abuse almost any stationary, non-living thing if there's a chance it'll make an interesting noise when we do it.

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Killer Mike 'R.A.P. Music': MC Feels 'Honored' on New Album, Discusses Life With a Cop Father

- Source: The BoomBox

After releasing his critically acclaimed 'PL3DGE' album in 2011, Grammy-winning Grand Hustle affiliate Killer Mike blindsided fans by announcing his next LP release, 'R.A.P. Music,' would be produced entirely by Brooklyn indie hip-hop hero El-P. The unexpected pairing resulted in a powerful, Bomb Squad -inspired sonic assault, at once a throwback to the hard-spitting days of early boom-bap and a futuristic sound all its own.

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Kobalt recruits IODA exec for new division

- Source: Music Week

Dodge, previously IODA's UK managing director and international vice president, takes up the position of general manager and VP of Kobalt's new operation, which was unveiled last month at the same time as a new division covering neighbouring rights management was announced.

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TVD Ticket Giveaway: Yasiin Bey aka Mos Def at the 9:30 Club, 2/20

- Source: The Vinyl District

But his bent toward social consciousness stays true to the grammatical modifier we "most definitely" know him as, Mos Def. The actor and emcee will appear onstage Monday, February 20th, at the 9:30 Club. Mos Def comes from a pedigree of politically aware lyrical artists originating out of Golden Era of Hip-Hop. In New York, where the art form took shape, there were rappers that quickly shot to the mainstream (Beastie Boys, Kid 'n Play).

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Articles: I Went and Saw Me Some Sleigh Bells/Diplo/Liturgy

- Source: Pitchfork Media

"There are now many historians who study popular culture, lowbrow entertainment, and the people of the streets, but I am always dismayed to find that they treat every saloon, high-heel shoe, or rock song as something else. If they are sympathetic to the people who consumed them, such things are remade into 'resistance' against oppression or 'collective alternatives' to capitalist individualism. God forbid they could be simply and only 'fun.'" –

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Craft Of The Lost Art: Jneiro Jarel

- Source: ClashMusic.com

Sure, there were reports that rap music had gone off the boil around the Millennium but out at the fringes, out at the edge the genre was still producing new talent who couldn't be placed in any one box.

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