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Complex tallied up the 50 best concert venues in America, and Metro topped at number 27! Reminiscing about the days when Prince and Jeff Buckley graced our stage, there are plenty of anecdotes and a good dose of history detailing our list spot. Smart Bar got plenty of love, too, and was cited as one of the club’s coolest features. Check out the other venues that made the cut on the full list.
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Complex tallied up the 50 best concert venues in America, and Metro topped at number 27! Reminiscing about the days when Prince and Jeff Buckley graced our stage, there are plenty of anecdotes and a good dose of history detailing our list spot. Smart Bar got plenty of love, too, and was cited as one of the club’s coolest features. Check out the other venues that made the cut on the full list.

Source: complex.com

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Lisa Hannigan already has a decade-strong career and an acclaimed sophomore solo release, and she has plenty more to celebrate. To commemorate her 100,000th Facebook “like,” the Irish songstress is offering up a free track off her recent full-length, Passenger. The former Damien Rice collaborator’s voice is as pristine as ever, as she chants over an earthy melody of twangy mandolin and the occasional piano flourish. The track, titled “Flowers,” is available for free via Hannigan’s Soundcloud.

Lisa Hannigan opens for Glen Hansard on June 9th.

Source: SoundCloud / Lisa Hannigan

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Tricky may have risen to fame in the wake of the flourishing trip-hop scene of the ‘90s, but he’s armed with plenty more than fizzling backbeats and drum-driven breakdowns for his tenth studio release. While the Bristol rapper is hard fought to top his soundscaping 1995 debut Maxinquaye, he produces a tough contender with False Idols, due out in just a week. Don’t wait the week until its release—listen to False Idols via NPR Music now!
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Tricky may have risen to fame in the wake of the flourishing trip-hop scene of the ‘90s, but he’s armed with plenty more than fizzling backbeats and drum-driven breakdowns for his tenth studio release. While the Bristol rapper is hard fought to top his soundscaping 1995 debut Maxinquaye, he produces a tough contender with False Idols, due out in just a week. Don’t wait the week until its release—listen to False Idols via NPR Music now!

Source: NPR

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MissInfo.tv » New Music: Juicy J “Boss N***a”

“Boss N*gga”, the newest single from Juicy J, dropped last night.  The Three 6 Mafia member, currently on the road with his Stay Trippy tour, tweeted this banger with only a couple hours’ notice.  Power through your weekend with the new track, available for free download, here.

The Stay Trippy Tour comes our way on May 24th.

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Stream Kurt Vile's Full Acoustic Solo Show in His Hometown

Kurt Vile has been hitting the road in support of his latest release Wakin on a Pretty Daze, and he enlisted the help of Iron & Wine for his hometown appearance at COMMvention. Peppering the half-hour set with new singles and deep cuts stretching back to his 2009 Hunchback EP, Vile welcomed Sam Beam to the stage to noodle through some crowd favorites, and of course “Flightless Bird, American Mouth.” Listen to the session here and don’t miss your chance to catch Iron & Wine at the Chicago Theatre on September 27.

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Chance The Rapper may be a relatively new face on the hip hop scene, but he can hold his own even with the seasoned vets. Chance headed into the studio along with OG Talib Kweli and Cory Mo. The group laid their own rhymes over A$AP Rocky’s 1 Train beat for over four minutes of freestyling. Check out the collaboration above.

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OMD has released yet another single off their recent release English Electric. The synth driven number—called “Dresden”—is wrought with tension and weaves through a metallic drum fill. Featuring grooving silhouettes and kaleidoscope backgrounds, the video is an unmistakable product of OMD’s modern aesthetics.

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    • #english electric
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A$AP Ferg brought in the big guns on this one. The video for the remix of his track “Work” features guest verses from French Montana, Trinidad James, Schoolboy Q, as well as fellow A$AP Mobber A$AP Rocky. Heavy on gritty NYC settings and visuals, this video helps solidify A$AP Ferg as a force to be reckoned with in the hip-hop scene. Watch it above.

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Chance the Rapper’s new mixtape Acid Rap has been hailed as anything but conventional.  In an interview with MTV, Chance describes this release as “acid jazz influenced,” as well as a “critical discourse analysis that evokes people to analyze words and rhetoric.”  This marks a departure from the more standard hip-hop on 10 Day, the Chicago rapper’s first mixtape.  Watch the full interview here.

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Fans may not have warmed to A$AP Ferg’s original cut of “Work,” lifted off last year’s Lord$ Never Worry, but he’s certainly won redemption with his latest remix. Stacked with some of his closest friends, including ScHoolboy Q and A$AP Rocky, “Work” is recreated to unveil a brand new single. Take a listen here.

Source: SoundCloud / asapferg

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