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  Time Warp, the Most Prestigious Techno Festival in the World, Makes Its Way to New York
  By Steve Weinstein

  For three months, Time Warp found itself in limbo. The first festival in the city where it is still based — Mannheim, Germany, having debuted in 1994 — Time Warp has grown to become... More >>

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  The Best Bands to See in NYC This Season are Actually From New York
  By Jackson Connor

  Living in New York City means being able to see musicians from all over the world perform throughout the year: jazz pianists from Japan (Eri Yamamoto every Thursday through Saturday at Arthur's... More >>

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  Nineteen Concerts You Should See This Fall in NYC
  By Jesse Jarnow

  Venues in bars. Venues in record stores (Nels Cline Singers at Rough Trade, 64 North 9th Street, Brooklyn, November 10). Venues in yoga studios. Venues with impenetrable DIY video games and... More >>

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  Wiz Khalifa Returns Home With Blacc Hollywood
  By Sowmya Krishnamurthy

  "Put your thumbs in my eyes. Right there," Wiz Khalifa instructs. "Then you push in, and the eyeballs pop out." I squeamishly obey and place my thumbs gently on the rapper's tear ducts. He's... More >>

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  Getting Hi-Fi Love on Hi-Fi
  By Hilary Hughes

  The digital jukebox is a modern-bar mainstay, a strangely sterile presence in a sticky, moldy, and otherwise downtrodden place. It's a weird little robot, benevolently aglow even when it's... More >>

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  Our Interview With Tommy Ramone Was One of His Last
  By Peter Gerstenzang

  Sometimes, guys change Rock and Roll because they're prodigies, re-writing the rules as a result of their virtuosity. In that category, you'd have a guitarist like Jimi Hendrix, or a demonic... More >>

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  Learning About Speedy Ortiz by Bowling on the Eve of 4Knots Music Festival
  By Brian McManus

  We're in the middle of the game now, and the members of Speedy Ortiz are beginning to hit their stride. In the last two frames, among the four of them, they've bowled five strikes and two spares.... More >>

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  Urine-Obsessed NYC Noise Outfit Yellow Tears Drop a Deuce
  By Ray Cummings

  Liquid Diet. Soaking Wet From Your Brother's Tears. Paint Gurgle. The titles of Yellow Tears' releases are hardly window dressing. This Brooklyn trio's worldview is thoroughly saturated —... More >>

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  Hip Hop Did Not Begin the Way You Think It Did
  By Chaz Kangas

  To hear most people tell it, the history of rap goes like this: MCs were originally rapping primarily to showcase their DJs. That is, until Sugar Hill Gang put out "Rapper's Delight" in 1979. It... More >>

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  Lionel Richie: The Obama of Pop Music
  By Mike Seely

  In 2016, when Americans take stock of Barack Obama's presidency, they may determine that he did very little to improve the lives of everyday black people. But what is indisputable is that Obama... More >>