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Irrelevant Interviews - TacocaT

This past week, everyone in Portland, Oregon, (including myself) has been experiencing the best thing in the world: extreme global warming. True, in a few years, April and May will probably yield 100-degree weather and cancer. But it's been sunny and a day-drunk 80 degrees for the past five days straight. Good thing I was interviewing party-time, fun-loving, summer-channeling TacocaT. Full story

Pen Pals

Bert Meets a Real Rapper Who’s a Year Out of Prison

A lotta dudes in prison are rappers, but I don’t pay them much mind. But in the case of SunBlaze, I had a feeling that he was serious bizness—the way he kept to himself, quietly writing and not talking a lotta shit like lotsa dudes do. He got out last May and has been doing very… Full story

Mac Miller Opens Up

If you haven't been paying attention, you might not have known that Mac Miller has abandoned party-rap in favor of a psychedelic, near-Based perspective on life. These days, however, he's totally fine if you're not paying attention. Full story

Here Is Radiation City's New Single, "So Long"

Plus an interview at their drummer's home in Portland. What happened resulted in the most viciously awful hangover I've ever had in my life, but it was worth it to talk to them about Nancy Sinatra, missing teeth, and "gentle gesticulation." Full story

The Long VICE Interview with FLAG

Original vocalist Keith Morris, bass player Chuck Dukowski, drummer Bill Stevenson, and guitarist Dez Cadena are going on the road as FLAG. Meanwhile, Black Flag’s founding member, guitarist and principal songwriter, Greg Ginn, announced in January that he, too, would be reformin… Full story

Neither Big nor Easy

3D Na'Tee Brings Real Rap to New Orleans's Jazz Fest

Rap godfather Chuck D has said that he never likes to watch anyone on stage and think to himself, 'I could do that.' When 3D Na’Tee takes the mic, no one thinks that. Her words are so plentiful they often crowd out any hope for a chorus, and her quick lyrical twists and turns wou… Full story

My Thoughts on This Whole Danny Brown Oral Sex Thing

I'm currently on tour with Danny Brown, and last Friday he was sexually assaulted onstage in front of a bunch of people in Minneapolis. It's obvious the reason nobody will call this an assault is because a girl did it to a boy. Full story

Reviews

I was hoping that listening to this record after 12 years of avoidance would age it like a truffle rustled from the fertile soil of Montferrat by pigs bred solely for this purpose. Unfortunately the experience was more like spraying André Sparkling Strawberry on a pile of burning… Full story

The Creators Project

Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' Collaborators: Chilly Gonzales

For the past few weeks we've been taking a look at the collaborators behind 'Random Access Memories,' the new Daft Punk album. For episode six, we spoke with piano man extraordinaire Chilly Gonzales. Full story

Listen to Kylesa's New Single, "We're Taking This"

We love Kylesa, and we love that they've got a new record coming out next month. We especially love the sludge-metal crushiness and isolation-tank psychedelia of their new single, "We're Taking This." Full story

New York State of Mind

Fabolous, Pusha T, Joey Badass, and Children of the Night

Hip-hop is having a renaissance right now in the city of New York, where it seems like every other day a new MC rises up. So we sent scene insider Verena Stefanie Grotto to document the New York Movement as it happens in real time. Full story

Saturn Dogs: Noise and Sushi Dinner in Berlin

This multi-level approach fits well in Berlin, where the idea of a band already drifted away from traditional musical and instrumental concepts years ago, and where the art scene has been forced into adapting the scrappy attitudes and strategies of musicians out of economic neces… Full story

The DJs Who Saved Bill Brewster's Life

Bill Brewster literally wrote the book on dance music with his historical tome 'Last Night a DJ Saved My Life.' So it was only fitting that we hit up the author to give us a rundown of the top dance-music DJs who helped him forget about the mortal coils and dreary dregs of everyd… Full story

R.A. the Rugged Man Still Hates Every Record Label

There are few rappers working in America today with the pedigree of R. A. the Rugged Man. Signed to Jive Records as a teenager during hip-hop's golden age, the Rugged Man failed to find an audience, eventually catching a sexual harassment charge and getting blacklisted by the maj… Full story