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  RP Boo, 'Legacy' (Planet Mu)

  On "Invisibu Boogie," an early track from RP Boo's long-awaited debut LP, Legacy, the 15-year-vetera...
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  Steffi, 'Panorama Bar 05' (Ostgut Ton)

  When the Dutch DJ Steffi played Berlin's Boiler Room in 2011, her gaze rarely left the turntables....
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  Homeboy Sandman, 'Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent' (Stones Throw)

  Last month, Hot 97 morning-show host, notoriously aggressive "real hip-hop" defender, and profession...
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  The Dillinger Escape Plan, 'One of Us Is the Killer' (Party Smasher Inc./Sumerian)

  Ever since they crawled out of Morris Plains, New Jersey, in 1997, Dillinger Escape Plan's death-met...
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  Eve, 'Lip Lock' (FTR)

  A crop of megastars has experimented with dubstep beats in the past two years: Britney, Bieber, and ...
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  Pistol Annies, 'Annie Up' (RCA Nashville)

  In 2011, united by a love of raucous twang, slow burn, bad puns, and high-heeled shit-kicking, Miran...
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  Iggy and the Stooges, 'Ready to Die' (Fat Possum)

  Ready to die?...
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  Phoenix, 'Bankrupt!' (Loyaute/Glassnote)

  At the close of Coachella's second night, an interpreter stood awash in the main stage's LED glow, t...
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  The National, 'Trouble Will Find Me' (4AD)

  Anatomies of melancholy in modern music rarely come with skeletons as complete as the National's....
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  Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, 'Mind Control' (Rise Above/Metal Blade)

  Plus: Ghost's Infestissumam and Purson's The Circle and the Blue DoorIn the years between Black Sabb...
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