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  Artist of the Year: Death Grips

  November 20, 2012 – This is the first piece in SPIN's series of Year-End stories, which we'll be publishing now through the end of the year.So, to get to the question everyone's thinking about: Whose penis is that on the cover of your album?After 90 minutes of spiraling conversation with Death Grips, the query completely sucks the energy out of the room. …
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  Death Grips Unsurprisingly Dropped By Label

  November 1, 2012 – As SPIN reported on Wednesday, Sacramento noise-rap crew Death Grips have been doing just about everything in their power to get on the wrong side of their label, Epic Records. They canceled a major tour in the eleventh hour. They leaked their own album, NO LOVE DEEP WEB, without approval. They put a picture of a penis on the cover of said album. …
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  Death Grips Blasted by Label, So Band Leaks Infringement Letter

  October 31, 2012 – There's a fine line between being charmingly iconoclastic and committing career suicide, and Death Grips might be leaning to the wrong side of that razor's edge. On October 1, the Sacramento noise-rap crew leaked their own album to the web without the permission of their label, Epic Records. …
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  Death Grips' Penis Cover Gets Animated in 'True Vulture' Video

  October 18, 2012 – Life with Death Grips is just a priapic smörgåsbord. As was widely noted — and turned into the stuff of brilliant dick jokes — the Sacramento rap-thrash band's latest release NO LOVE DEEP WEB not only came to us for free, but it came toting a boner on its cover. Giddyup! …
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  Death Grips Unload Raw Power, Flying Lotus Takes Requests in New York

  October 18, 2012 – Death Grips are on another level. Perhaps that's an obvious thing to point out, considering the Sacramento-based hip-hop/hardcore crew recently released their album NO LOVE DEEP WEB for free online with a buoyant "fuck you" to their label and a pic of a pulsating pink cock on the cover. But the way their music translates live is beyond dick-art subversion. …
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  Death Grips' 'World Of Dogs' Video Features Fire, No Penises

  October 11, 2012 – They grow 'em heavy and a little esoteric in Sacramento. As alt-metaleers Deftones crawl ever closer to the release of their new LP Koi No Yokan, Death Grips continue to set the alt-rap scene on fire following their supposedly unauthorized leak of NO LOVE DEEP WEB — also known as the album that has a wiener on it. …
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  Death Grips to Take Dick Album on the Road

  October 3, 2012 – After pissing everyone off by abruptly canceling their summer tour to work on an album that they recently adorned with a dick and released for free, hence kinda delighting everyone, Death Grips have announced a new tour, which, like the aborted one, will take them to Europe, Australia, and around the U.S.More dates will be added, which is probably a good idea since, according to Billboard, the Sacramento rap thrashers are the most legal …
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  9 Great Dick Jokes About Death Grips' 'NO LOVE DEEP WEB'

  October 1, 2012 – Today, manic noise-rap crew Death Grips dropped their second major-label album, NO LOVE DEEP WEB, as a free download. And, as we noted, the cover art is a little, um, NSFW. Here are some jokes we wrote about it because we are eight years old. • In honor of Death Grips I'm gonna be writing album titles on my penis all day. …
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  Death Grips' 'NO LOVE DEEP WEB' Leak: Our Impulsive Reviews

  October 1, 2012 – Death Grips leaked their second major label album, 'NO LOVE DEEP WEB' today. Here, five SPIN editors give their hasty and completely impulsive opinions...Christopher R. …
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  Download Death Grips' Frenzied 'NO LOVE DEEP WEB' LP

  October 1, 2012 – Death Grips have been fairly quiet, at least by the Sacramento noise-rap group's chaotic standards, since unveiling an addictive interactive video for their 2012 major-label debut The Money Store's Salt-n-Pepa-flavored salvo "I've Seen Footage." But now the album that they scrapped their summer dates to finish, NO LOVE DEEP WEB, has arrived.Death Grips claim their label, Sony subsidiary Epic, hadn't heard the album yet. …
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