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| Take a look back at the early days of the seminal American punk music scene with The Art of Punk - Black Flag - Art + Music. |
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| Mount Kimbie ... Dominic Maker and Kai Campos came up on listening to indie and grunge music before translating that into a modern context that involves influences from dubstep, shoegaze, ambient, minimal techno and even R&B and hip hop. |
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| Manchester ... we all hear the name thrown around as a great music city, with long standing roots of turning out great music. But what do most music fans really know about Manchester, the city itself? Get the real deal from the people that work and live in Manchester. |
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| Moderat talk about how they all connected in the beginning -- why they decided to form Modeselektor and Apparat into Moderat, and the roles that each member plays in the group. |
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Krautrock - The Rebirth of Germany |
Check out a documentary on Krautrock: how it started,
how bands like Can, Neu! and Kraftwerk tried to make music
different from the stale Geman pop music that had captured
Germany at that time. |
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| Kevin Parker from Tame Impala speaks on how Tame Impala takes chances with an ordinary indie rock sound to blend complex pop songs with on the spot improv and a retro-psych sound; all without sounding like a flashback band. |
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Richie Hawtin Interview |
| Richie Hawtin explores how the birth of Techno in Detroit was a challenge for being accepted in an age where technology was one dimensional and flat, dehumanizing. The music now is more dynamic and wide-ranging, he says. Check out an interview with Richie as he shares his history and plays Richie Hawtin and Plastikman music. |
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| As the 1980's moved to the 1990's The Stone Roses emerged at the forefront of the BritPop movement and the Madchester scene. It all happened so fast ... and it came apart just as fast. |
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| The Postal Service reunion is happening this weekend at Coachella, and Jimmy Tamborello was the driving creative force behind the indietronica project that quickly moved to "such great heights" with success. He's been a part of so many projects: The Postal Service, Figurine and Dntel primarily. |
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| The great singer-songwriter that moved across all types of music: Jeff Buckley was a young master of many styles. Check out a BBC documentary about Jeff Buckley's story: his roots, his peers and his music. |
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| Kode9 drops in for an interview to talk all thing Hyperdub: The illusive and wry Kode9 has innovated in grime, dubstep and music with heavy bass and worked it all towards his Hyperdub label, creating an outlet for artists like ... |
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| The Pixies reviewed by their peers: the Gouge documentary from the BBC. Thom Yorke, David Bowie, PJ Harvey, Graham Coxon and more all weigh in on the influence that the Pixies had on them and where they were when they first heard the Pixies. It includes interviews with Pixies members and early performances (Frank Black with hair!). |
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| One of the people responsible for laying the foundations of Drum and Bass and Jungle, Grooverider took wide-ranging influences like acid house and the pirate radio station Phase One and used them to set the vibe for his approach to being a Drum and Bass DJ. |
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| Detroit had all of the things in motion to create one of the most vibrant and creative music scenes ever. |
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| Animal Collective -- their name is synonymous with experimentation while swimming in both the electronic music and indie rock waters. They started out as a purely experimental band before smoothing out their sound in a more approachable yet non-commercial way. Check out an interview set amongst their music. |
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| With the SXSW Music Festival going on this weekend in Austin, take a look at what drives Austin during the rest of the year: the music, the scene, the clubs and the people caught between gentrification and the artists' neighborhoods, trying to get noticed in a crowded landscape. |
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| One of the few artists that reach into both the indie rock and electronic music scene, Dan Deacon has been pioneering his own brand of experimental and avant-garde sounds. Check out the interview set amongst his music. |
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| Relive the experience to some degree, as the long-talked about CAN U FEEL IT movie is the Spacelab Weekend video feature. |
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| With the recent announcement that Trent Reznor would be getting Nine Inch Nails back together this Fall for new music and a Nine Inch Nails tour, Spacelab Weekend is featuring a Trent Reznor audio interview. |
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Tricky Interview |
| With his new album announced this week, Tricky is looking for a return to form seen and heard during his Maxinquaye, Nearly God and Pre-Millenium Tension days, the apex of his creativity and the roots of his sound. Check out an interview set amongst his music: he talks about how he came up, trip-hop and Massive Attack. |
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| The most exhilarating time for a band is when it moves from an up and coming band to a band-of-the-moment. Funky Monks captures that story before and as that happens, while the band is recording the album that made them famous -- BloodSugarSexMagik |
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| Daedelus is a rare breed of musician / innovator / inventor. Check out an interview set amongst his music. |
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| Kraftwerk, the masters of minimal and direct electronic music that laid the foundation of techno and electronic music for the coming decades. See the future impression they left on music -- from Bowie and Eno to Radiohead. |
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| Tortoise are a band that cross many styles, genres and influences; from post-rock to jazz to indie rock and more. Check out an interview with members of the band set amongst their music. |
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Sonic Youth - The Blues Scale / The Year That Punk Broke (Music Video) |
| Sonic Youth at the apex of their so-called "commercial" period. They were fully into and leading the way on the so called “sell out” of their music that so many post-punk and then Alternative bands were doing at the time. Watch the band as they were hanging out with Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana. |
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Photek Interview |
| Photek waxes nostalgic on how he transitioned from happy hardcore to IDM/drum and bass and the difference between drum and bass and jungle. |
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| Check in with the Pixies on their 2004 reunion tour. Egos and creative differences broke the band apart, and they brought it back together for a major reunion starting with a show in Minneapolis. They were all "adults" at this point ... and this tour saw them managing the tensions between ... |
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| Always pushing the boundaries of electronic music, Amon Tobin is never one to repeat ideas from album to album. Check in with him on this interview vignette set amongst his music. |
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Re:Generation Music Project |
| Skrillex, Pretty Lights, The Crystal Method, DJ Premier and Mark Ronson as they remix five older styles of music. Skrillex takes on The Doors, Pretty Lights vs. LeAnn Rimes and The Crystal Method vs. Martha Reeves are just part of what happens here. |
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Battles Interview |
| Battles have taken the music world for a spin as they've continued to break through the confines of electronic music, post rock and experimental music. One of the bands that can truly boast about being unable to be categorized, Battles always keeps us guessing in the best way. Check out the Battles interview set amongst tracks of their music. |
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Austin Psych Fest Documentary (Music Video) |
| The Austin Psych Fest ... a gathering of the tribes for psychedelic modern rock. It's a way out time -- check out the Austin Psych Fest documentary in all of its glory. The festival was held in a decommissioned steam power plant and included bands like A Place To Bury Strangers, Crystal Stilts ... |
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Flying Lotus and Brainfeeder (Streaming Music) |
| Check out Flying Lotus talking about his Brainfeeder recording label and playing music from a host of acts from or that are influenced by Brainfeeder: The Gaslamp Killer, Gonjasufi and Daedelus are only a few. |
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Sigur Rós Presents Inni (Music Video) |
| Recorded at London's Alexandra Palace in 2008, Inni sets out to capture the magic that everyone talks about with the Sigur Ros live show. It's reached mythical proportions ... people stumble over words to describe what they've seen. |
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| The resurgence of Redd Kross sees the band hitting the global scene for their tour of their recent album Researching The Blues, and this show finds them at the Primavera Club in Barcelona, Spain in September of last year. |
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Meeting People Is Easy is the documentary that visits Radiohead at the time of their first redefinition, right after they released OK Computer. The band was clearly and quickly becoming an emerging tidal wave all over the globe, and OK Computer proved to be the right music at the right time. |
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| Check out the video of Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements for a limited time. |
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