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10 Wondrous Drug-Themed Album Covers
When you name your mixtape Cocaine Waitress, you’d better have the artwork to back it up. And thanks to The Awl, we now know exactly what the cover to that album, by the Atlanta rapper Diamond, looks...
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10 Music Videos That Glamorize Drug Use [NSFW]
Watching the video for “Synchronize,” Discodeine’s new collaboration with Jarvis Cocker, we couldn’t help but be taken with its darkly beautiful, drug-laced imagery. And it occurred to us that, despite...
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The Flavorpill Mixtape LIX: Radiohead, Liturgy, Lupe Fiasco
If it were up to us, this week would be officially known as Johnny Cash week. The Man in Black’s birthday is Friday — he would be 79 — and if there’s a better way to celebrate it than to pour some...
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Wavves to Score MTV Hipster Show ‘I Just Want My Pants Back’
Wavves’ Nathan Williams is totally down with big-business brand integration. Remember when he and girlfriend Best Coast recorded a duet for exclusive release on Target’s Christmas compilation? And how...
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The 10 Best 21st-Century Stoner Anthems
As stoners around the country are no doubt only too aware, it’s 4/20 today, which means it’s time to smoke yourself into a coma in solidarity with fellow ganja-lovers around the world. For the last...
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10 Albums You Need to Hear in August
The last couple of weeks have been a pretty dire time for album releases, but happily, there’s respite to be had in August — there’s a fair selection of worthwhile records due out over the next four...
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10 of the Most Unnecessary Side Projects in Music History
Things about which we are tired of hearing include: Wavves. As such, we greeted the news that Nathan Williams has a bitchin’ new side project with his bro with stony indifference — frankly, the last...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. “Dull Tool,” a new Fiona Apple song that will be featured on the soundtrack for Judd Apatow’s upcoming comedy This Is 40, has leaked online. Give it a listen here. (On a related note, if you missed...
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Exclusive: Play Flavorwire’s Wavves Bingo
Over the last few months, we’ve gone a little bingo crazy here at Flavorwire — we’ve settled down to tick off key moments in Girls, dealt with the (unfortunately vomit-heavy) pitfalls of New Year’s...
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Stop Singing About Drugs: A Bored, Exasperated Plea to 21st-Century Musicians
We had some gentle fun at Wavves’ expense yesterday, but even we have to admit that his new album, Afraid of Heights, is a whole lot better than his earlier work, mainly because he’s actually bothered...
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20 Years of Weezer’s ‘Blue Album': 11 Musicians Dissect It Track By Track
Back in the spring of ’94, just a month after Kurt Cobain’s suicide, Weezer released its self-titled debut — affectionately dubbed the Blue Album — into the world. What Blue offered was a new spin on...
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25 Alternative Summer Anthems
As classic an earworm as Bananarama’s “Cruel Summer” is, one cannot subsist on it alone all season long. “Boys of Summer” has lost its charm by the end of June. And with all due respect, The Beach...
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The 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: Kendrick Lamar on Race in America,...
This week was a tough one. A few established names dropped songs — Drake surprised us today with a whole album, Florence dropped a kind of confusing thing, and Hot Chip announced an album — but not all...
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17 Surf Rock Christmas Songs to Soundtrack Your Holiday Heatwave
Christmas music: you love it, hate it, or just try to tolerate it until the first of the year rolls around. Any way you slice it, you’ve got to put up with the jingle bells and sleigh rides and...
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