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Either Twitter Is Mean or Slowdive Are Reuniting

All the world's a stage, and Slowdive might soon be playing on it (again).

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"I Can't Do It, Mr. White": When Education Tastes Like Los Pollos Hermanos

Walter White as aged teacher and Jesse Pinkman as retired student grow to be somewhat of a family for each other, but the way in which Jesse learns and applies himself shows that Breaking Bad's theme of learning goes deeper than one might initially think.

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Beach Fossils - "Crashed Out" (video)

The National and Beach Fossils both released new records in early 2013, each effort playing like the inverse of the other.

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The Sound of Silence: On Rolling Stone's 'Bomber' Cover

Joseph Fisher examines the controversy over Rolling Stone's Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover issue, as well as the lack of response from the indie music publishing world.

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Facing the Path of Time: Alice in Chains Remembered

The sumo wrestler suits are still awesome.

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The Money Shot: Should Musicians Watch More Porn?

The music industry seems to be aggressively reactive, either spurning technology with a kind of evangelical vehemence or taking far too long to figure out how to use technology to the advantage of all involved. Is it possible that the music business could learn something from the porn business?

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DIIV's Oshin, Every Last Minute of It

For me, what distinguishes DIIV from their peers on Captured Tracks is that despite having internalized every note of the Cure's Disintegration (either on purpose or by osmosis), the band is anything but backward-looking.

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Ride to Reissue 'Going Blank Again', Rest of Catalogue

I daydream about this stuff actually being available in the United States.

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How Long Must We Sing This Song?: Your Technology Is Destroying My Music

Really, do we need another article posted on the Internet that ponders the paradigm-shifting possibilities posed by that very same Internet? Right now, I’m just not sure that we do.

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Boston's Constants Cover Catherine Wheel's "Strange Fruit"

Boston's Constants have teased their new album Pasiflora by offering a cover of Catherine Wheel's "Strange Fruit".

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Intimacy in World Building: Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl on their Indie Sci-fi Film, 'Prospect'

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All the world's a stage, and Slowdive might soon be playing on it (again).

Humble PopMatters Readers, we are interrupting the internet's End-of-2013-Yeezus-Coverage for an important announcement: Swervedriver will be releasing their first new material in over 15 years.

Walter White as aged teacher and Jesse Pinkman as retired student grow to be somewhat of a family for each other, but the way in which Jesse learns and applies himself shows that Breaking Bad's theme of learning goes deeper than one might initially think.

The National and Beach Fossils both released new records in early 2013, each effort playing like the inverse of the other.

Joseph Fisher examines the controversy over Rolling Stone's Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover issue, as well as the lack of response from the indie music publishing world.

The sumo wrestler suits are still awesome.

Broken Heads, Noses Everywhere

The music industry seems to be aggressively reactive, either spurning technology with a kind of evangelical vehemence or taking far too long to figure out how to use technology to the advantage of all involved. Is it possible that the music business could learn something from the porn business?

For me, what distinguishes DIIV from their peers on Captured Tracks is that despite having internalized every note of the Cure's Disintegration (either on purpose or by osmosis), the band is anything but backward-looking.

This week's List This celebrates ten shoegaze tracks that were not always celebrated by the scene itself.

I daydream about this stuff actually being available in the United States.

Really, do we need another article posted on the Internet that ponders the paradigm-shifting possibilities posed by that very same Internet? Right now, I’m just not sure that we do.

Boston's Constants have teased their new album Pasiflora by offering a cover of Catherine Wheel's "Strange Fruit".