10 Free MP3s You Need to Download This Week
It’s Friday, and unlike the rest of Flavorpill, this writer’s not in Austin — instead, it’s time for another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. There’s...
View Article10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Redd Kross, Yeasayer
It’s Friday, and we’re back with another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week there’s a long, long-awaited track from resurgent ’90s icons Redd...
View ArticleSongs That Sound Like Love Songs But Aren’t
A while back, we did a feature on some of the most misunderstood songs in music, and it’s a topic we’ve been meaning to revisit ever since. Specifically, we’re always interested in the realm of the...
View ArticleLollapalooza 2012: The Festival in Photos
Last summer, formerly roaming, currently Chicago-based festival Lollapalooza celebrated its 20th anniversary. This past weekend, Perry Farrell’s brainchild barreled into its third decade, once again...
View Article10 Bands That Changed the Sound That Made Them Famous
This week’s most notable release has been Fragrant World, the curiously titled new album from Yeasayer, which came across our desk a couple of weeks back and has been on occasional rotation at...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Retire the Grammys’“Best Alternative Album” Category
The annals of music history are filled with once-specific genre names that are now functionally meaningless. “Indie rock” and “EDM” are some recent examples, but back in the ’90s, it was “alternative”...
View ArticleSecrets of the White Sea: How M83’s Morgan Kibby Made Pop’s Newest Break-Up...
Morgan Kibby, looking like a Manhattan vision of a fourth wife, is trying to eat bacon gracefully. For the most part she’s succeeding — her pot of tea, low-cut cape-blouse, statement jewelry, and...
View ArticleZola Jesus On Her Pop Dreams: “When You’re So Full of Passion, It Can Really...
“I used to think humility was everything,” Nika Roza Danilova pleads atop a cryptic electronic beat on “Ego,” the high point of her fifth album, Taiga. Meeting the 25-year-old singer-songwriter, who’s...
View ArticleHarry Styles Is Far From the Most Interesting Thing About Taylor Swift’s New...
Of all the songs on Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989 (out October 27), “Out of the Woods” is supposed to be among the rare few that shit-talk — specifically, it shit-talks an ex-boyfriend, who happens to...
View ArticleYou Could Be in M83: Band Issues Open Call for “Female Singer-Keyboardist”
Have you always wanted to start a band, but didn’t want to deal with the decade-plus of playing empty bars, driving in broken-down vans, and living off of your parents’ good will? Oh, also, are you a...
View ArticleM83 Announce New Album ‘Junk,’ Release Video Featuring Talking Dog Head in Space
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about quality music? Is it a disembodied dog head floating in space, singing the words to flashy dance song by French band M83? You’re so smart!...
View ArticleM83’s ‘Junk’, ‘Trainspotting’ Two Decades Later, and More: Today’s...
Here at Flavorwire, we pride ourselves on not only writing some of the best content on the Internet, but keeping an eye on all of the great writing that other folks on the ‘Net are doing, too. Today,...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Songs We Heard This Week: Zayn, M83, and Empress Of
This week has been all about SXSW and the live music so rampant there, but while all the young buzz bands were making a case for indie rock stardom down in sweltering Austin, we were here in dulcet,...
View ArticleLollapalooza 2012: The Festival in Photos
Last summer, formerly roaming, currently Chicago-based festival Lollapalooza celebrated its 20th anniversary. This past weekend, Perry Farrell’s brainchild barreled into its third decade, once again...
View ArticleM83’s ‘Junk’ Is the Kitschy Headache of an Album We Deserve
We should’ve listened to Anthony Gonzalez. In a year that cursed us with the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, Charlie Sheen’s public meltdown, one of the worst tsunamis in history, and Anders Behring...
View ArticleWatch Teen Wolf Perform New M83 Songs on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
M83’s recently released album Junk was kind of weird, kind of ugly, kind of bad, but infinitely intriguing, and it doesn’t need any gimmick beyond its sounds to sell it, but that didn’t stop singer...
View ArticleGovernors Ball 2016: The Not-So-Calm Before the Storm
This weekend saw the return of the Governors Ball to NYC — well, sort of, because in a continuation of the festival’s bad luck with weather, Sunday’s sets were cancelled entirely due to a storm. Still,...
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