We're all guilty of overdressing to events just to be seen. Concerts are no exception. Everyone has that friend that takes forever, and likewise, that friend who goes to every concert in the same ratty Soundgarden shirt from 1994. In our years of performing and attending shows, we've seen our fair share of concert fashion, and the major thing we've noticed is the differences between the ways me...
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Ladies and Gentlemen: Going to the Show
Radiohead 'Wall of Ice' EP Review + New Mp3 'Dead Air Space'
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Sending the internet ablaze with their 'no more albums' rumor, it comes as no surprise that Radiohead's first release since In Rainbows is an EP. Wall of Ice, which features yesterday's self-released track, "These Are My Twisted Words," delivers a digitally melancholy yet thunderously natural performance.The title track, "Wall of Ice," is predictable -- for Radiohead. The track's jarring 9/8 timin
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Exclusive Interview with Lead Singer Vawn Daniels of 'Cork Board'
POPSENSE (PS): We at PopSense don't like to hold anything back, so let's just get to the juicy stuff right away-- in our ironic correspondence via Blackberry Messaging you said you wanted to set up this interview to clear your name, so why don't you tell the people what's up?VAWN DANIELS (VD): Yeah, thanks for making this happen because we have been, to say the very least, really f*cking pissed...
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The World Mourns the Loss of Radiohead.
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Radiohead will not/may never release another album. Here's what the people had to say:John and Susan Anderson: "Our wedding song was 'Creep.' Everyone thought we were crazy! Some people just don't understand. Kids these days just want that acoustic version of 'Poker Face' to play instead."Walter Flanigan: "I lost my virginity to 'High and Dry." It felt like having sex with Thom Yorke. I'm gunna...
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New Moon soundtrack announced, Twilight fans and indie kids rejoice
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If you were surprised when you found out that Stephanie Meyer's summer favorite album list included the likes of Grizzly Bear and Animal Collective, you weren't alone. But this time everything makes perfect sense. New Moon, the latest film in the wildly successful Twilight series, officially has its soundtrack, and it's chock full o' indie goodness.Check out the soundtrack, provided by our frie...
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Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard married, first hipsterstream relationship made official
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According to People, every flannel-wearing male's worst nightmare has officially been realized. About a year ago a sudden pang shot through our hearts when Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard adorned Zooey Deschanel's precious finger with a three-carat diamond and platinum Neil Lane ring. This Saturday near Seattle the knot was officially tied between the two hipsterstream (hipster + mainstream) ...
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Avril Lavigne and Deryck divorce, rebellious teens confused
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"He was a boy. She was a girl. Can I make it any more obvious?" Avril Lavigne's culturally relevant words from the timeless classic 'Sk8er Boi' seem especially poignant today as Us Magazine announces that the ex-queen of cool has officially split with her husband of three years, Deryck Whibley.The magazine, on newstands now, elaborates: "She dumped him and told him she was leaving him. She w...
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Hype Machine Gives Away Free MP3!! REMIX!!!
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Breaking news:Popular music aggregating website known affectionately as Hypem or The Hype Machine is giving away a FREE MP3 for you to download, listen to, enjoy, share with your friends, touch inappropriately, etc. This is unprecedented shit right here. Free music, on the internet. What makes this even more unique? It's a Remix! That's right people, a FREE remix download via the web. After you...
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New Susan Boyle Album Defies Accepted Consumer Laws
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When you find yourself acknowledging that Susan Boyle served up a solid cover of the Rolling Stones' classic 'Wild Horses' you know something is off. Yes, Boyle, the old woman in the shoe from Britain's Got Talent that, as Columbia records puts it ever so tersely, "was plucked from obscurity" after her show stopping performance of 'I Dreamed a Dream'. After you recover from your state of disarr...
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Zooey Deschanel is Katy Perry
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Guest submission by Tim MyersWe live in an age in which corporations have the power to make and break the careers of whatever clean cut celebrity automaton that they see fit. These icons are packaged, marketed and, with the aid of relentless air time on local top 40 stations, sold to a public clamoring to latch on to the next big thing. In response to current trends, pop stars are branded wit...
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The Dead Weather: Translated
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You know that sinking feeling that something is just 'off' about the supergroup 'The Dead Weather'? How that burning desire to appreciate a band that combines members from all your other favorite groups (The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, The Kills, The Raconteurs) is somehow extinguished by an unidentifiable disgust for everything they do?Ever since the marketing backlash to The Dead ...
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Ladies and Gentlemen: Going to the Show [PopSense Classics]
We're all guilty of overdressing to events just to be seen. Concerts are no exception. Everyone has that friend that takes forever, and likewise, that friend who goes to every concert in the same ratty Soundgarden shirt from 1994. In our years of performing and attending shows, we've seen our fair share of concert fashion, and the major thing we've noticed is the differences between the ways me...
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iTunes Top 5 Ringtones: What You Were Thinking When You Bought It
5. Ice Cream Paint Job (Dorrough) – Well now all of my grandkids will know that Grandma is still hip! I can “get down” with this hip-hop music! Although, this “Mr. D- O- double R” is silly if you ask me! Why would anyone give their car an ice cream paint job? I won’t even let my grandson Johnny in the car with an ice cream cone – that’s a sticky mess waiting to happen.4. I’m Your
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Bob Dylan to Release a Christmas Album: Wait, What?
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No. We're not fucking with you.It’d be funny if we were, but we're not. “The Poet Laureate of Rock and Roll” has decided to blend his unique style of music with beloved holiday jingles much in the same way that you would blend a 5th of Whiskey and a warm glass of milk. Potential featured tracks include:Rudolf the Red Nosed Tambourine Man / Subterranean Homesick Silver Bells / Santa Claus is
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90's Alt-Rock Is Having A Mid-Life Crisis.
Or at least their PR is. The other night, we received an email with the subject, "you are missing out on the third eye blind fun." The words "fun" and "Third Eye Blind" only belong in the same sentence when you are a) talking about camp-fire sing-a-longs of "Jumper" or b) the 90's. A chance email correspondence resulted between PopSense and Third Eye Blind's PR agency, Mega Force USA. The discu...
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What Happens When Indie Kids Discover "Mainstream" Music?
The announcement of Activision's Guitar Hero 5 unveiled the newest feature in the series: indie music. This would seem like the logical progression in the series: Guitar Hero's 1-4 introduced people to "crazy rock muzak" and now, Guitar Hero 5 will throw some indie crap on there to expand into the ever-growing hipster market. Besides the obvious question (How the hell am I supposed to raise dev...
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Would this Stop You from Stealing Music?
Apple is always finding new and innovative ways to get us to buy shit again. iTunes was made to make us feel comfortable downloading music, as though we were shopping at an organic food store and buying fair trade coffee. The announcement of the new Apple tablet (basically a 10inch screened mutant iPhone) coincides with Apple's plans to bring back the allegedly interactive nature of album art.A...
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The Unabridged Tail of Neon Indian
Today, you are about to be diagnosed as Terminally Chill. Today, you will know the secret of Neon Indian.If your initial thought is, "Wait, isn't that a casino at a Native American reservation camp?," then you are mistaken. If your thought is, "a mysterious duo...'a guy and a girl who make music via correspondence. One in Brooklyn, one in Austin,'" then you are only half right.The legend of Neo...
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Harlem Shakes' Kendrick Covers an ENTIRE Yeah Yeah Yeahs Album...with Piano
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In the words of Kendrick O himself, Fever to Tell by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is the best album to have sex to of all time. I can't play drums, I can't play guitar, and I'm not a banshee of a girl. But I wanted to cover it because I like it, and because I wanted to win a bet. So here is my impressionistic, masturbatory act of devotion."This masturbatory act of devotion has yielded the incredible com...
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