Cover Story

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  Run the Jewels

  All Due Respect

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2014

  El-P is onstage at a Minneapolis nightclub when the confetti falls. A blizzard of white paper he had no idea was coming flutters from the c...

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  The Barr Brothers

  The Art of Restraint

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2014

  "When restraint and courtesy are added to strength," Mahatma Gandhi is said to have observed, "the latter becomes irresistible." You know...

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  Rich Aucoin

  Under the Big Top

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2014

  Rich Aucoin is, for the first time in a long time, relaxed. The top hat has come off and the cane he twirls is leaning up against the door....

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  White Lung

  Torn Together

  PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2014

  Last December, Mish Way packed up her things and left her hometown. As the explosive lead singer for Vancouver punk band White Lung, Way ha...

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  BADBADNOTGOOD

  An Odd Kind of Trio

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2014

  Coming to the stage are three young men in T-shirts and jeans, no different from nearly any other band in nearly any other venue. Crushed u...

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  Kelis

  What's Cooking with Kelis?

  PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2014

  To hear Kelis tell it, rolling into South By Southwest in a food truck smothered in the sounds and images of new album Food and stocked ful...

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  Mac DeMarco

  On the Brink

  PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2014

  "I wouldn't call it modelling," says Mac DeMarco, as he reflects on that one time he was asked to try and "make love to the camera." Iconic...

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  St. Vincent

  Restless Heart

  PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2014

  Asked why she self-titled her fourth record as St. Vincent, Annie Clark is frank: "I was reading Miles Davis's autobiography, and between h...