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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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  Coachella Cruise Confirmed: Pulp, Hot Chip Hitting High Seas

  July 17, 2012 – Instead of launching a third weekend of its annual Indio fest, Coachella will take its increasingly wild party to the high seas. Today organizers announced (ahead of its previously scheduled 6 p.m. PDT deadline) via Twitter the inaugural S.S. …
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  Polaris Prize 2012 Short List: SPIN's Guide to the 10 Key Acts

  July 17, 2012 – After announcing its long list last month, Canada's Polaris Prize jurors have whittled the pool down to ten native acts whose recent albums deserve short-list status for the $30,000 award that commends each year's "best album based solely on artistic merit without regard to sales or genre." When the list was released today, we realized we've weighed in on almost all of them, so consider this a SPIN User's Guide to the 2012 Polaris Prize …
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  No Trivia's Top 50 (Mostly Rap) Songs of the Year So Far

  July 5, 2012 – Ubiquitous major-label last great hope 2 Chainz makes four appearances on this list. None of those appearances are on any of his own songs, though he is a nice addition to each and everyone of them, particularly "Beez In The Trap," where he mentions Nicki Minaj's "doo-hickey." But this is just the story of major-label rap music this year: A whole lot of nothing you didn't ask for, to get to that something you actually want to hear. …
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  Feist, Drake, and Japandroids Make Polaris Prize Long List

  June 15, 2012 – What artist's album will join the ranks of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs and Fucked Up's The Chemistry of Common Life as a recipient of the Polaris Music Prize? …
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  Burning Down the Loft: Inside Montreal's DIY Scene

  June 12, 2012 – Even before she became quirky electro-pop live wire Grimes, Claire Boucher found it impossible to smoke and brood alone on her balcony in Montreal's Mile End neighborhood without attracting attention. But now, as the city's most buzzed-about export, it's become a bit of a problem."Everyone walking by is like, 'Hey Claire! How's it going? …
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  Skrillex, Grimes, and Diplo Remix the 'Train Tour Across Canada' Idea

  May 8, 2012 – When we put Skrillex on SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, we didn't realize he'd take it so seriously. Today he's gathered up his EDM friends — Grimes, Diplo, Pretty Lights, Tokimonsta, and KOAN Sounds — and announced a remix of the iconic 1970 Canadian train tour taken by Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and the Band, among others (we don't, however, expect any collaborative "Friend of the Devil" remixes... …
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  Grimes Collaborator D'Eon Offers Free Album

  March 13, 2012 – The Montreal producer d'Eon likes to keep listeners on their toes. "I kind of look like a metalhead, or a junkie, or a hippie or whatever, none of which I am," he told Dummy magazine last year. …
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  Watch Grimes Mock Aggro Dudes in 'Oblivion' Video

  March 2, 2012 – Claire Boucher, better known as electro-dance-pop princess Grimes, debuted her video for "Oblivion" on VEVO this morning. …
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  SPIN's 5 Best New Artists for February '12

  February 2, 2012 – WILLIS EARL BEAL Who: An idiosyncratic, Chicago-based antifolk belter whose cassette-recorded debut, Acousmatic Sorcery, drops on April 3 via XL Recordings' new Hot Charity imprint. He's set to open some U.S. …
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