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5 Albums to Stream for Free This Week: Kate Bush, Saul Williams
It’s Monday, which means it’s time for Flavorpill to forge bravely into the wilds of the Internet in search of five noteworthy and/or excellent records that you can stream for free all week. Here’s the...
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How to Have Fun Over the Holidays Without Leaving Home
It always feels like we’re pining for more free time during the holiday hustle, but often, when we’re faced with a few days at home to ourselves, we’re too spent to figure out how to enjoy them....
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Listen to an Extremely Slowed Down Version of Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”
If you’ve ever wondered what Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights” would sound like if it was 36 minutes long instead of closer to four, then you’ve got Dangerous Minds to thank for tipping us off to this...
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A Selection of Musicians Who Reliably Defy Expectations
Music lovers, rejoice — the new Liars album is out! If you’ve missed our earlier raves about it, suffice it to say that WIXIW (it’s pronounced “wish you,” incidentally) is one of the best things we’ve...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. David Rakoff, a frequent This American Life contributor and the author of the Thurber Prize for American Humor-winning essay collection Half Empty, has died at only 47 years old. Read a brief but...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. “It was a weird, confusing space to be in, because as angry as I was, as angry and hurt and betrayed, I just felt like he made that mistake because he needed help and who’s going to help him?...
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10 of Music’s Most Literature-Obsessed Songwriters
Good songwriting requires a lot of technical skill, artistic intuition, and, sometimes, literary genius. There’s something tremendously impressive about being able to create a song that’s not only...
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Tears and Tinsel: 9 Thoroughly Modern Holiday Songs
The holidays are that special time of year when old lovers re-emerge, flaring up like cold sores during a first date; it’s when we, shattered by the reality of having accomplished very little...
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10 Women We Can’t Believe Aren’t in the Rock Hall of Fame
So, tonight is the grand induction ceremony for this year’s class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. You’ll forgive us if we don’t get too excited, though, as the whole Hall of Fame experience...
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The 50 Albums Everyone Needs to Own, 1963-2013
No one buys albums anymore, goes the music industry truism. And yet, for all that the format’s commercial viability may or may not be on the wane, sitting and listening to a great album from start to...
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The 50 Best Debut Singles in Music History
Apropos of not a great deal, the music nerd contingent at Flavorwire central recently got a-talking about our favorite debut single. The list is nearly endless, but once you start to think about it,...
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Stereotyping You by Your Favorite Valentine’s Day Sex Jam
If you’re looking to show your significant other a proper Valentine’s Day, you need a proper soundtrack to go along with it. Whether you’re the type who spends bags of money to hire a violin quartet to...
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The Childhood Homes of 10 Famous Musicians
The legacy of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is stronger than ever this year, with Kurt Cobain Day established (February 20), the publication of Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, and...
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Solange Covers Kate Bush’s “Cloudbusting” at Coachella
While we’re waiting for Kate Bush’s recently announced first tour in 35 years, Solange surprised Coachella audiences with an awesome pallet-whetter, covering Bush’s “Cloudbusting.” Though videos of the...
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10 Teen Pop Songs With Decidedly Disturbing Lyrics
Alice Bolin recently wrote an excellent essay for The Toast about just how disturbing Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time” is if you really stop and think about the lyrics. Not the chorus,...
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Watch the BBC Kate Bush Documentary ‘Running Up That Hill’
BBC’s hour-long documentary on Kate Bush, Running Up That Hill, looks at the life and work of the English singer-songwriter with interviews from Annie Clark, Tori Amos, Natasha Kahn, and more. The...
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Here’s a Letter From Kate Bush on the “Extraordinary Experience” of Her First...
Kate Bush — everyone’s favorite literary pop-star recluse who managed to pull off a Winter album without sounding or looking like Rod Stewart — recently finished her residency at London’s Apollo...
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The Weirdest Vintage ‘SNL’ Musical Performances
Contemporary Saturday Night Live doesn’t always have its finger on the pulse the way it should. It’s done a few things wrong, like the ongoing race debacle that creators tried to make right with the...
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