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  Hear RL Grime and Salva's Rattling Trap Remix of Jamie Lidell's 'What a Shame'

  March 25, 2013 – "What a Shame" is one of the most unhinged songs on Jamie Lidell's new, self-titled album, with violent trashcan drums underpinning vocals so thickly multitracked they threaten to suck all air out of the room. Leave it to rising trap types RL Grime and Salva to slice open the song's claustrophobic industrial-soul shell and let the oxygen back in. …
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• Jamie Lidell, 'Jamie Lidell' (Warp)

  February 21, 2013 – He looks like Adam Levine's older brother, and for the past eight years, Jamie Lidell has sounded a lot like Adam Levine's older brother. …
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  Best & Worst of Lollapalooza: Day 1

  August 7, 2010 – Best Reason to Wake Up Early: B.o.B.There were more dragonflies than fans on the damp expanse of Grant Park - and more people holding coffee cups than beers cozies - when the man born Bobby Ray Simmons took the stage at 11:30. What was with giving a guy who's moving so many units a slot in the Breakfast Club? Who knows, but before Squirt Boy's water bottles were even out of his holsterer, B.o.B. had the crowd overheated. …
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• Jamie Lidell, 'Compass' (Warp)

  May 21, 2010 – Jamie Lidell has managed the neat trick of constructing a solid, distinctive identity out of headlong pastiche: falsetto crooning, post-IDM glitch funk, '90s-indebted R&B beats. That he's become close with Beck is fitting, and here the two share songwriting and production credits. …
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  Watch: Beck Covers Velvet Underground

  June 19, 2009 – After pushing the envelope with his own output over the last two decades, Beck -- and a group of all-star pals -- are re-imagining the classics. Members of the singer's new "record club" (read: Devendra Banhart, Jamie Lidell, MGMT, and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, among others) will come to his studio and record an classic album from start to finish in one day -- sans rehearsals. …
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  Watch Vampire Weekend, Raconteurs, and More Live from Austin City Limits

  September 25, 2008 – We here at SPIN.com wish we could stow you away to the Lone Star State this weekend for the Austin City Limits music festival. But just because you don't have a ticket to the musical extravaganza, doesn't mean you can't catch its top sets. Our pals at AT&T blue room are webcasting all three days of the festival, bringing spectacular live streaming video direct to your computer screen. …
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  From the Eastsport Cafe at Lollapalooza '08: Jamie Lidell

  August 3, 2008 – For years, Jamie Lidell performed live as a one man digital wrecking crew, frenzied behind a table of synths and wires, spitting out verses. Now, to best present tunes from his latest album, Jim, Lidell invited a slew of solid session musicians to join the fray, something he discussed with SPIN.com's Peter Gaston in the SPIN Studio at the Eastsport Café at Chicago's Hard Rock Hotel. …
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  Jamie Lidell Defies Nature in Chicago

  June 5, 2008 – Chicago's weather may be barely warm enough for short sleeves, but Jamie Lidell still managed to set Chicago's Abbey Pub ablaze last night (June 4), singing like he was possessed by the soul of Ray Charles. Commanding a crack band, skinny English bloke Lidell's whirlwind of mid-century American jazz, soul, and funk proved his virtuosity to the sold out crowd. …
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