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Denzel Curry Joins Pain Of Truth Shows, May Pivot To Hardcore

For many years, Florida rap great Denzel Curry has been messing around in the hardcore world. When the teenage Curry first emerged as part of the underground Raider Klan crew, they helped introduce choatic moshpit energy to the rap world. In 2019, Curry covered Rage Against The

Drain Cover Sick Of It All In Tribute To Lou Koller

The biggest live-show beatdown I ever saw happened during New York hardcore heroes Sick Of It All's set at the 1997 Warped Tour in DC. One guy came running through the crowd past me, gushing blood from his head, while a bunch of other dudes chased after him. One guy had his

Pavement Play “Greenlander” For The First Time In 34 Years

Pavement have been working their way across America over the past week and a half, playing a short summer tour that suggests their reunion will continue on a small scale in perpetuity, which rules. That tour coincided with my family vacation, which does not rule, especially

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Charli XCX Shares More Music, Film

Last Friday, our great deconstructionist pop star Charli XCX released her new album Music, Fashion, Film . The record gets its title from a line in Charli's song " SS26 ": "Nothing's gonna save us/ Not music, fashion, or film." But even if those things won't save us, Charli

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Faith No More Announce First Shows In 11 Years

For a minute there, it wasn't entirely clear that alterna-metal titans Faith No More would ever perform together again. Faith No More broke up for the first time in 1998, reunited in 2009. They kept touring together for the next six years, and they released the 2015 reunion

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Brooklyn Street Renamed After Ol’ Dirty Bastard

Putnam Avenue in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood now shares a name with one of the most influential rappers of all time. Yesterday, with an official ceremony that brought together friends, family, and government officials, Putnam Avenue also became ODB Jones Way, named after