Following the death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker on September 3rd, Donald Fagen wrote in his tribute to Becker that “I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.” Fagen will make good on that promise as Steely …
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Avicii spent most of his twenties as one of the biggest touring DJs in the world, blowing fans’ minds from Las Vegas to Ibiza with confetti cannons and colossal EDM hooks, not to mention a wedding-favorite pop smash (“Wake Me Up”). But, it turns out, it wasn’t much fun for …
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LCD Soundsystem, American Dream“James Murphy and his wrecking crew of New York punk-disco marauders don’t waste a moment on the superb American Dream,” Rob Sheffield writes about the first album in seven years from the New York dance commanders. “It’s a relentless, expansive, maddeningly funny set of songs asking how …
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Arcade Fire performed a pair of Everything Now tracks and mocked consumerism during a visit to The Late Show Thursday. The performance was “sponsored” and preceded by an ad from the “Everything Now Corporation,” Arcade Fire‘s parody of an Amazon-like retailer that offers “everything now, the two most beautiful words …
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