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Warm Up 2010 At MoMA PS1 Schedule
A couple of months ago MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach -- the person who organized MoMA's ridiculously popular Marina Abramovi? exhibition, among other things -- asked me if I'd want to help curate...
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Gucci Mane, DMC, Andrew W.K., Tim Harrington, Doug E. Fresh, The Cool Kids,...
And so ended the Pool Parties, at least in the form in which we know them. That is to say, they ended with fun and sunny sets from the previously confirmed Florida booty rap party starter Dominique...
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Big Freedia –“Azz Everywhere” Video (NSFW) (Stereogum Premiere)
If you're catching up on Big Freedia, the salient facts are these: She's the ascendant ambassador of New Orleans' "Sissy" bounce scene, a libidinous rap amalgam fronted by transgendered MCs that play...
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CMJ 2010: 9 Bands That Played Nice Sets, Others That Came Out Ahead Too
Every year the death knell drum beats a little louder around CMJ. By 2007 the NY Times was well practiced writing that sort of piece -- when the author of that year's article Melena Ryzik asked for...
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The 12 Most NSFW Videos Of 2010
A couple of Best Videos Of The Week ago I mentioned how nearly every good clip that week was too long, too nude, or too violent to make it on to MTV; one was even removed from YouTube, verification...
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Big Freedia –“Y’all Get Back Now” Video (Stereogum Premiere)
Booty-clap pied piper and Sissy Bounce emissary Big Freedia has spread awareness of her gender-bent rap amalgamations far beyond their New Oreleans origin, though it's only with next week's Scion...
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The 10 Best Videos Of The Week
This week we've got new videos from tUnE-yArDs, TV On The Radio, SebastiAn, Mr. Dream, Coma Cinema, Big Freedia, and the Human League. That's a still from the Human League video above, who put together...
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Big Freedia –“Almost Famous” (Stereogum Premiere)
"I wanna thank all of my fans and all of my haters for making me famous." Freedia gets that mission statement for "Almost Famous" out early, and spends the rest of this track -- the lead single from...
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Scenes From New Orleans Jazz Fest 2011
Wilco, The Strokes, Lupe Fiasco, The Decemberists, and many many others headed down to New Orleans for the week-long New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The festival started in the 70s, and it's...
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Big Freedia –“Excuse” Video (Stereogum Premiere)
"Excuse" follows "Almost Famous" on the five-song Scion A/V Presents Big Freedia EP. The video, funded entirely by Scion A/V, was directed by Scott & Karl of Project Fathom. If you liked the "Y’all...
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Spank Rock –“Nasty” (Feat. Big Freedia)
"Nasty" is probably the title you'd expect for a team-up between Baltimore/Philly dance rapper Spank Rock and New Orleans sissy bounce queen Big Freedia. And the song itself, from Spank Rock's new...
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Big Freedia Brings A Reasonable Amount Of Ass To Kimmel
Sissy bounce emissary Big Freedia, the New Orleans sensation whose concert is something you absolutely should take your most prude friend to, made her network television debut on Jimmy Kimmel last...
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Bumbershoot Lineup 2014
The Bumbershoot Festival goes down in venues around Seattle every year on Labor Day weekend, and the lineup for this year's festivities on 8/30-9/1 just came out. As usual, it's a unique assembly of...
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Artist Portraits From Stereogum #Soundwave At Outside Lands 2014
At this year's Outside Lands, Stereogum teamed with Toyota to present performances at the Soundwave tent. Throughout the weekend there were intimate jams, DJ sets, and Q&As from artists like...
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Festival Supreme 2015 Lineup
The Tenacious D-run Festival Supreme Is entering its third year of existence, and they've just announced their lineup which, as always, features a healthy mix of music, comedy, and artists that fall...
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Sia –“Eye Of The Needle (Bounce Remix)” (Feat. Big Freedia)
The latest contribution to this year's Adult Swim singles series is from bounce legend Big Freedia, who remixes Sia's downtempo 1000 Forms Of Fear ballad "Eye Of The Needle" into a dramatic upswing,...
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Apple Blocks Tidal From Streaming Drake’s Lil’ Weezyana Performance
Instagram.com/416ovo246navy">Last night, on the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Lil Wayne held his first annual Lil' Weezyana Fest in New Orleans. As MissInfo points out, proceeds from the...
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Beyoncé –“Formation” Video
Beyoncé has just pulled a Beyoncé and dropped a new single on the world without warning, her first new solo track since 2014's BEYONCÉ platinum edition. "Formation" is produced by Mike Will Made-It and...
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Big Freedia Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Housing Vouchers
Instagram.com/BigFreediaQueenDiva">In a New Orleans federal courtroom this afternoon, Big Freedia, the New Orleans bounce-music queen, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $1,000 in housing...
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Big Freedia Ordered By Judge To Live In Halfway House Until Setencing
Instagram.com/bigfreedia">Earlier this year, New Orleans bounce artist Big Freedia pled guilty to a federal theft charge and is currently awaiting a mid-August sentencing date, when she could face...
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Drake –“Nice For What” Video
Last time Drake dropped some new music on the weekend, it worked out pretty well: "God's Plan," the lead track on his two-song Scary Hours EP, debuted at #1 and has stayed there for 10 weeks, buoyed in...
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Drake –“In My Feelings” Video
Drake released his extremely long double album Scorpion in June. Since then, one of the songs has taken our social media feeds by storm, rising above the other ubiquitous Drake hits. The song, "In My...
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Kesha –“Raising Hell” (Feat. Big Freedia) Video
Pop-industry survivor Kesha has been through a whole lot of bullshit, especially in her prolonged court and public-opinion battle with former collaborator Dr. Luke, and now she's ready to get back to...
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All Hail King Princess
King Princess really is royalty of a sort. Mikaela Mullaney Straus, the 20-year-old upstart who'll release her debut album Cheap Queen tomorrow, is the daughter of Oliver H. Straus Jr., owner of...
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New Kids On The Block –“House Party” (Feat. Boyz II Men, Big Freedia, Jordin...
Hey, here's some random-ass shit! Foundational early-'90s boy band New Kids On The Block have a new quarantine-era anthem called "House Party," a funky R&B-influenced dance-pop track about staying...
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The Benevolent Celebrity Livestream Parade Is So Bleak
Livestreams suck. Livestreams have always sucked. There are exceptions -- when your favorite artist logs on, when something incredibly charming and unexpected happens -- but in general, watching...
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The Postal Service Hold Band Auditions For Anne Hathaway, Kenny G, Japanese...
When the Postal Service's Give Up turned 10 back in 2013, the band shared some "long-lost footage" of humorous band auditions featuring a ton of famous people. Now, with the United States Postal...
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Rebecca Black On 10 Years Of “Friday”
In 2003, an unknown director named Tommy Wiseau wrote and starred in what many call the worst movie ever made, The Room, an accidental cult classic that he would later claim as satire. Its notoriety...
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Lady Gaga Announces Born This Way 10th Anniversary Edition With Reimagined...
Lady Gaga’s Born This Way turned 10 last weekend. To celebrate, Gaga has announced Born This Way The Tenth Anniversary, a special 10th anniversary edition of the album featuring new packaging — aka a...
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Chance The Rapper, Brockhampton, Lil Uzi Vert, & More Have New Songs On Space...
The soundtrack to the original Space Jam was quite a big deal, spawning two top 10 Hot 100 hits with R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” and Seal’s Steve Miller cover “Fly Like An Eagle,” and featuring...
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Beyoncé –“Break My Soul”
Last week, we found out that Beyoncé would be releasing her first new solo album in six years, Renaissance, at the end of July. Compared to the rollouts for her self-titled and Lemonade, it seems that...
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A. G. Cook, Syd, Skrillex, Drake, BloodPop, Right Said Fred, & Many More Have...
A day after revealing the tracklist for her new album Renaissance, Beyoncé has also shared the composer credits. They’ve already been helpfully loaded into the album’s Wikipedia page, too. Some notable...
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