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Sometimes remixes get too much hype; don’t sound anything like the original–or too much. Sometimes they completely loose the whole meaning of the original song; take a snippet and loop it over and over. Sometimes they are completely horrible! Sometimes, however, it is a genre-bending opus that completely turns a Genre’s Classic into [...]

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What would a new release from everyone’s favorite dancing-indie-rocker Beck look like if he was signed to Blue Note?  Well, this>>>>
Beck has released his new album artwork and his tracklisting for the forthcoming Danger Mouse-produced-Cat Power-featured new Album: Modern Guilt. It will be out July 7 in the United Kingdom and Europe from XL, with a North [...]

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The Wu-Tang Clan is/was a ground-breaking Hip-Hop troupe that brought the way the youth of New York was expressing themselves to the Nation in the 90s and early 2000s. A documentary about the history of the Wu-Tang Clan, titled simply Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan, will debut at the Urbanworld Film Festival on [...]

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Taken from his website:
“Overcoming the climate of mediocrity and misdirection, Mickey Factz takes us on his internal search for clarity and meaning on his journey towards self-enlightenment. We watch as the abstract psyche of an artist come into full focus as he confides in us about his aspirations, relationships, and vices. Laying his narrative over [...]

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Every so often on this interweb thing you come across a band or artist that confuses you and also seems so right at the same time. Cof Cof, the band/duo from Valencia, Spain, is a good representation of one of those acts. The freeness and quirkiness of Spanish culture, or so we believe (we will [...]

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You know you are doing something right as a young strong female black performer when Ms. Erykah Badu has given a nod in your direction. 23 year old Janelle Monáe has had quite a long trip; with plenty of more room to roam and recently Ms. Badu has said that Monáe is the next big [...]

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So, we know we here at eargoggles are not the first (or last) to post our opinion on Death Cab for Cutie’s new release Narrow Stairs, but nevertheless-here we go. Of course we have heard the spacey time-driven 8+ minute “I Will Posses Your Heart” and cannot get enough; saw the video as well. This [...]

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Just two months after an web-exclusive release of Ghosts I-IV and only two weeks after surprising radio stations with new single “Discipline,” Trent Reznor and the ever-intense Nine Inch Nails announced this morning that their hinted-at new album The Slip was available as a free and immediate download. According to Reznor, the album is being [...]

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Throbbing Gristle, an Avant-Garde group from the UK, and Gnarls Barkley have something in common now. Other than the use of pre-recorded tape-based “samples,” and extensive use of special effects to produce a distinctive, highly distorted background, usually accompanied by lyrics or spoken-word performances by Genesis P-Orridge. Danger Mouse and Gnarls Barkley have oddly enough [...]

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Well well NYC, it looks like this summer will be sizzling hot. Just announced, the Mos Def Big Band with special guest Gil Scott-Heron will be performing at the JVC Jazz Festival on June 28th. Mos Def describes the event as “an evening of music and spoken words with material drawn from Miles Davis, [...]

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