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NEW: The Return of Sleater-Kinney
After various hints of a return to music, Sleater-Kinney have announced a new album, tour, and have released a new lyric video for their single, “Bury Our Friends” (feat. Miranda July!) Watch the lyric video below. Lead vocalist and guitarist Carrie Brownstein is probably most widely known today for her role on IFC’s “Portlandia,” opposite […]
Listen Up: Vic Mensa “Innanetape”
By: Eric Short, Staff Writer Never before has Vic Mensa had to prove himself quite like this. The 20 year old Chicago MC put out his first EP at just 16, 2010’s Straight Up, and then grabbed the ear of every indie music connoisseur as the rapping front man for the genre-blending sextet Kids These […]
Writers Pick: Kitten
By: Dan Kurtz, Staff Writer/Kitten advocate Kitten hasn’t garnered a significant amount of attention in its 4 years of existence. However, the Californian dream pop group, lead by Chloe Chaidez, has opened for big acts like No Doubt and, most recently, Charli XCX and has even received attention from Nylon, Spin, and Rolling Stone. Even after releasing three solid […]
Catch Up: Dum Dum Girls “Lost Boys and Girls Club”
By: Elle Hoffman Editor-In-Chief/now in the market for a latex crop top This song is all I need, seriously. The intro sounds like updated Smiths- era Johnny Marr, and Dee-Dee’s dark and inviting vocals have never been more perfectly used – making treacly lyrics like “daisy chains of love” sound intriguingly ominous. To be honest […]
Triumphant Return: M.I.A’s “Matangi”
By: Kyle McMahan, Staff Writer and KCOU Social Media Director/Bad Girl Matangi is a Hindu goddess of music and spoken word in addition to being the namesake of Mathangi Arulpragasm (M.I.A.) and this album. In her semi-self-titled fourth album, M.I.A. does her best to channel this goddess. Taking the year’s whole “rappers as deities” thing and just […]
Totally Rad: Sky Ferreira “Night Time, My Time”
By: Dan Kurtz, Staff Writer/Member of “Team Sky” Signed to Capitol Records at just 15, it didn’t take long for Sky Ferreira to join the ranks of the numerous potential child stars that didn’t quite make it. After the singles “Obsession” and “One” and several unfulfilled promises of a future album, Sky disappeared from […]