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The story of the most controversial shirt in rock history.

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This is actually really hilarious and awesome and yeah

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Sophie’s Blogspot is one of my most favorite sites to troll. Always wonderful material, downloads, and synopses. 

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EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHECK OUT SKYLINE THE CITY

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Annabel

I'm so excited... I AM FINALLY GETTING TO CHECK OUT ANNABEL 😭

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The lyrics of recent No. 1 singles average at a third grade reading level

New study examines lyrics from Beyoncé, Foo Fighters, Adele, Eminem, and others.

Fascinating and humorous. 

Check out the full study here.

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Beautiful <3

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#deep

This is sort of the definitive track for the album I suppose, title track and all. I wrote it in Brooklyn and I was trying to get to the heart of what it felt like when my partner and I were apart. It's sort of like a feeling of inertia where you don't know which way is up. Things between the two of you move slowly, whilst the world around you remains in perpetual hyper motion. There's this anxiety that comes with feel like you're stuck in slow mo. I was also thinking about how important images are when you're dealing with the absence of someone you love, our lives already revolve around ever changing images, morphing and distorting each other, but when you've lost someone that becomes all you have, either through your memories of an idealised past or the stuttering Skype connection at 1am. It's pictures which are your point of contact really.

- thelineofbestfit.com interview with Outfit

Here, the pop-group Outfit discusses, in depth and track by track, their forthcoming album, Slowness, which drops on June 15 via Memphis Industries. I discovered this gem whilst perusing their analysis of their song “Slowness.” I loved this so much that I had to share it. 

Oh, you can stream the song, as well as their entire LP, through the wonderful website of thelineofbestfit.com by clicking on this link.

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Morrissey: “Obama Seems To Be White Inside” - Stereogum

Morrissey has again shared some political observations with the public in the form of an interview with Alternative Nation. The interviewer asked Morrissey about his past support for Barack Obama and some negative remarks the erstwhile Smiths singer once made about Hillary Clinton. That led to a lengthy, multi-tiered response that involved Moz musing that Obama "seems to be white inside." Here's the Obama portion excerpted: Obama has mystified me because he doesn’t appear to support black people when they need it most… Ferguson being an obvious example. If Michael Brown had instead been one of Obama’s daughters, I don’t think Obama would be insisting that the nation support the so-called security forces! How can they be called security forces if they make the people feel insecure? Obama seems to be white inside. There is an obvious racial division in America and it’s exploding and Obama doesn’t ever support the innocent black people who are murdered by white police officers who are

Reasons why I worship this man UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Chance the Rapper is curating a free Chicago festival for fans age 13 to 24.

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Already Heard Session: The Early November - A Stain On The Carpet

The career of The Early November has been one of ups and downs. Breaking through with their debut release, ‘The Room’s Too Cold’ in 2003, the New Jersey called it quits in 2007. Fast forward eight years, and The Early November are firmly back together having recently released a new LP called 'Imbue’ with a UK tour to compliment its release.

It was this UK tour where Already Heard met up with frontman Ace Enders as he treated us to a performance 'A Stain On The Carpet’ from 2012’s “reunion” record 'In Currents’.

Produced by

Future Epic Productions

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Nevada Music

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'Imbue’ by The Early November is out now on Rise Records.

The Early November links: Website|Facebook|Twitter

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Absolutely love this song. I'm going to be checking out all of The Early November's stuff now.

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Who doesn’t love super sad acoustic covers of The National? I know I sure do. Holiday Oscar is here on his guitar with I Need My Girl.

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Jaden Smith Joins Baz Luhrmann Hip-Hop Series ‘The Get Down’

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The McKinney man who called the police has inspired a brilliant satirical hashtag 

Sean Toon was one of the white McKinney residents who called the police on the group of teens at the pool last week. In honor of Toon dialing 911 when seeing black people engaging in “suspicious activity,” Twitter created a hashtag in his honor. Here’s how racists see the world.

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Long Live Punk Rock

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I'm less than 120 minutes away from hearing/meeting The Menzingers in person :-)

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“I know where your heartache exists, it’s when you are alone and when you’re around me.”

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Concert tonight!

If you’re struggling to find something to do tonight, head over to the Southgate House Revival in Newport, KY to see The Menzingers play! The Menzingers are an awesome four piece punk outfit from Scranton, Pennsylvania (here is where you should be thinking “AH! DUNDER MIFLIN!”). They have transcended their earlier hardcore sounds from their first LP A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology to, with their critically acclaimed third LP, On The Impossible Past, become the gritty melodic pop punk band that they are today. I have yet to listen to Rented World (check out their latest single “I Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore”); however, I am syncing to my iPod as I type. The tickets are still on sale at $16 a pop. I suspect they won’t sell out, but, just in case, you can order online via http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/807045/tfly?utm_medium=api&utm_medium=291182. The address of The Southgate House is 111 East 6th Street, Newport, KY. To end this post, I will leave you with my personal favorite song: Gates, from On The Impossible Past.