Media Temple is back to host the biggest, baddest Interactive Closing Party you have ever seen. Live music blowout!……

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS PUSH THE SKY AWAY FEBRUARY 2013 "I don't know, this record just seems new, you know, but new in an old school kind of way" Nick Cave "Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of…

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With rare objection, Café Tacuba is credited far and wide as the preeminent band to have arisen from the rock en español movement of the early '90s. The Mexican four-piece unfortunately isn't well characterized by the ro…

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Trevor Powers, whose stage name is Youth Lagoon, began writing his debut albumThe Year of Hibernation in 2010. Based around the idea of psychological dysphoria, Powers tried to document the trailsof his mind through son…

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alt-J (∆)’s name takes a little explaining. Pronounced “alt-J”, the delta sign is created when you hold down the alt key on your computer keyboard and punch ‘J’ on a Mac computer. The symbol has a deeper meaning for the …

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5 childhood friends from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, augmented by 3 mid-western transplants, The Mowgli's are a quintessential California band. Inspired by the magnetism of San Francisco, the grind of Los Ang…

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With a name like “Walk Off The Earth,” you might say this band sounds otherworldly. In fact, it’s very much grounded in reality. "We wanted to come up with a name that would make people forget about their problems, no…

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Lissie is Laurel Canyon prettiness stewed in campfire and bourbon with a big old voice to match. She caught everyone’s attention with her 2009 EP “Why You Runnin” and again with her 2010 album “Catching a Tiger.” Paste M…

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Drop City Yacht Club doesn't front. In fact, the California trio—Kristo, A Wolf, and THX—will just as quickly rap about the girl who turned them down as the one that they took home. Writing and producing all of their own…

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Wardell (formerly Brother/Sister) is a band that was formed by one brother and one sister who met during a play date set up by their parents. One's black and one's white. They remain brother and sister. They make the kin…

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Drop City Yacht Club doesn't front. In fact, the California trio—Kristo, A Wolf, and THX—will just as quickly rap about the girl who turned them down as the one that they took home. Writing and producing all of their own…

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New Chain is the debut long-player from New York's Small Black. Richly coloured and thickly layered, it is an absorbing, eclectic and obsessive body of work. The Brooklyn group have succeeded in melting together locked a…

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BIOGRAPHY: HAIM Hailing from the San Fernando Valley, HAIM consists of, “Three sisters, and a mister” that has been shaking things up in the city of Los Angeles for the past four years. It is truly a family affair for …

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