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A blog about the world via Chicago.

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VIDEO: Instagram September 17, 2016 at 09:19AM

#SetYourGoals pit cam from Instagram http://ift.tt/2cyjuJg via IFTTT

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VIDEO: Instagram September 16, 2016 at 06:45PM

#Glassjaw playing beyond recording quality in the evening heat from Instagram http://ift.tt/2cQee6s via IFTTT

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Ultimate in Laziness: New Ad Lets Hulu Users Instantly Order Pizza

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Broken Bells will be releasing the ‘Holding On For Life’ 12” vinyl for Record Store Day on April 19th. It will feature three previously unavailable remixes plus acapella and instrumental versions. http://bit.ly/1fbDwkO

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Good news from Broken Bells

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Download a new mixtape featuring J Dilla beats with reworked De La Soul lyrics. 

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De La Soul over J Dilla

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Tyler Durden certificate, framed at IKEA.

Photo by Jennifer Van Sickle.

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ARUN RATH: You are huge now; there’s no getting around the fact that you’ve made it big. It’s kind of amazing that this is actually your first studio album.

Sonny Moore (a.k.a. Skrillex): Yeah. What does studio album mean?

You tell me.

I don’t know! I didn’t really do my record in one studio, you know what I mean? When you say “studio album,” it feels like I went away to a studio in the mountains for a month. But it was made in so many different places — like, the Chance the Rapper record was done in Seattle after one of his shows, just randomly.

You can release music in so many different ways, and even though the mainstream media and certain people might not pick up on it because it’s not through the normal avenues, it’s still effective. I’ve put out four EPs in the last three and a half years, and probably just as many or more singles and remixes throughout those years. So I’ve put out the equivalent of many studio records, just in a different way.

I feel like people don’t take you as seriously unless you’ve done a “studio record” — which is OK, but I think it’s also important to not limit yourself to that, and show that you can release music and be successful in other ways. Especially in the world of electronic music, kids are so fast and prolific. They’re making stuff, and then the night they made it they’re playing it out live, it gets shot on a cellphone, it’s already on SoundCloud. So how do you accentuate that movement? That’s how I’ve always kind of seen things. Recess happened naturally. In the beginning, I wasn’t even sure if I was gonna release an LP or what it was gonna be, but those were the songs that I wanted to put out at the time.

Does it feel weird for you to release a “studio album” in that way? To do the traditional thing?

The only thing that’s weird to me is when people say that — all of a sudden, it’s this thing. You definitely get a lot more attention when you put more songs together. But my core fans have never complained; whenBangarang came out, it wasn’t like, “Where’s the album?” Because they know that I’m putting out remixes and stuff in between. I don’t think there’s any right way to do it. Maybe I’ll make a four-disc epic record one day, and maybe the next day I’ll make a single or something.

Skrillex on All Things Considered

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On Skrillex...

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"You’re listening to a poor Xerox," Neil Young says of the MP3. Watch the singer describe the Pono music player, his attempt to change an audio trend that stresses convenience over quality.

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How to get success from content marketing

This is all based on having an agile team. Good stuff. Infographic by Vertical Measures

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JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings author's version of epic Anglo-Saxon poem fleshes out heroes' past, reports Alison Flood

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SOLANGE KNOWLES: My earliest love, which was sort of an obsession actually, was Nas. I was in seventh grade, I believe, when Nastradamus was out, and I took it pretty far. I listened to it — no, I mean, I actually was telling someone yesterday, I got suspended over Nas.

FRANNIE KELLEY: What?

KNOWLES: In eighth grade I went to a very, very Christian school. I had the God’s Son shirt-off poster in my locker — across the belly — and the dean told me that I needed to remove the poster because it was blasphemous. And I argued that if I did that the young lady two lockers down from me had to take down her Justin Timberlake poster because he had a cross tatted on his chest.

ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD: Nice.

KNOWLES: And I didn’t really see what the difference was there. So he told me he was giving me until Friday — it was a Wednesday. I went home, spoke with my parents about it and my parents actually gave me the choice and the freedom to stand by it and accept the repercussions if so, which was an in-school suspension. So I took that, I took that for Nas.

Solange Knowles on Microphone Check

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Phantogram plays spiky, dense and danceable pop-rock songs with an electronic pulse. Voices is the sound of a band at ease and assured in its moment, as it seizes every scrap of momentum it’s created for itself.

Stream Voices from NPR Music’s First Listen. 

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Atmosphere - “Bob Seger” (VIDEO)

"The #EmoRevival is a lie"

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Get Winter Band Merch Now!

Our new design for the FU! Farraday University sweatshirt are only available until Wednesday February 12! Get yours now and support the tour:

http://bit.ly/1bjIidS

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When you listen to “North Street,” a just-released song by the band Death, it’s hard to believe it’s more than 30 years old. The cut, with its urgent beat and relentlessly propulsive guitars, is part punk and part avant-garde rock. Death originally recorded the track in 1980, but it never saw the light of day — until now.

Photo: Tammy Hackney

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Catch the documentary on Netflix.

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the desire to be pleased, catered to and flattered by the products we consume

Does vocabulary say something about elitism?

Article: Is the literary world elitist?

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How writers and coders can play nice together

A USC journalism prof has some great ideas on the collaboration between content people and web developers.