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  10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Sufjan Stevens, Young Jeezy, Chairlift, and Katy B

  December 13, 2012 – Another week brings another crop of ready-to-stream albums, here for your listening pleasure.1) Sufjan Stevens, Chopped and Scrooged (Christmas Mixtape). "The set redoes Silver and Gold tracks like 'The Child with the Star on His Head' and 'Dream Catcher,' but adds boom bap beats, chopped vocal snippets and verses from the likes of now-extinct rap outfit Das Racist, Busdriver, Kitty Pryde, the Pro Letarians, and more."&nb …
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  Chairlift Release Wild and Fuzzy 'Something Demos' EP

  December 11, 2012 – Chairlift's Something has proved a bit of a divisive album. While some appreciate Caroline Polachek's New Age-imbued mashup of Toni Braxton and Feist, others find her preoccupation with repping alienated Brooklyn disaffection (aka hipster ennui) to be a little tiring. …
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  Yigal Azrouel Shines With A Razor-Sharp Spring '13 Collection

  September 13, 2012 – Most people fumble their way through sewing on a first button, learn to do their hair from a YouTube tutorial, or Rosetta Stone the crap out of Italian a few months before a trip to Rome. Yigal Azrouël, on the other hand, is a completely self-taught fashion designer, and a killer one at that. …
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  Last Night: SPIN Braves Fashion's Night Out 2012

  September 7, 2012 – Fashion's Night Out is something like Fashion Week's grand entrance — like Fashion Week throwing open the front door in a hot pink feather boa yelling, "I'm heeeerrre!" A whole stretch of the city transforms into a celebration of music, champagne, and shopping, and the masses come out in their Sunday best to partake in the event Vogue's Anna Wintour invented in 2009 to help revive a then-flagging fashion economy. …
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  Chairlift's Austin Oasis: See How the Band Survived SXSW

  March 19, 2012 –  …
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  Direct Your Own Version of Chairlift's 'Met Before' Clip

  March 5, 2012 – Following in the tradition of Arcade Fire's interactive clips for The Suburbs tracks "We Used to Wait" and "Sprawl II," and Andy Grammer's MTV O Award-winning "Keep Your Head Up," Chairlift and Brooklyn-based production company m ss ng p eces have released a new clip modeled after the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of children's books. …
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  Santigold, Best Coast, Big K.R.I.T. Set for SPIN's Austin Throwdown

  March 1, 2012 – SPIN is proud to announce the complete lineup of our 2012 party in Austin, set for Friday, March 16. Once again at the city's fingerlickingest venue, Stubb's BBQ, this year's bill features a who's who of SPIN faves, led by dub-poptronica superstar Santigold, who conveniently dropped a new video today. …
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  In My Bag: Caroline Polachek

  February 22, 2012 – Caroline Polachek is not a night owl, or at least she hasn't been lately. While recording the second Chairlift album, Something, with bandmate Patrick Wimberly, the singer for the Brooklyn avant-pop duo turned into a nine-to-fiver (sort of). "We wanted the record to have a daytime feeling," explains Polachek. …
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  See Chairlift and Das Racist's Awesome Beyonce Cover

  February 10, 2012 – One way of approaching Chairlift's ambitious, generally satisfying sophomore album, Something, is as another entry in recent years' ongoing dialogue between R&B and indie aesthetics. As a SPIN contributor pointed out recently in a review for the A.V. Club, singer-songwriter Caroline Polachek (who also plays synths) bears traces of '90s Toni Braxton and '00s Leslie Feist alike, albeit filtered through an eerie post-chillwave lens. …
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  Chairlift, 'Something' (Columbia)

  January 24, 2012 – Caroline Polachek is getting better at Scrabble. On her synth-pop crew's skeletal 2008 debut, Does You Inspire You, the singer-keyboardist was so proud of the song's hazy, unusually worded chorus — "The most evident utensil / Is none other than a pencil" — that the band risked a video budget, winning a VMA nomination for their datamoshing 4D clip. …
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