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  Liz Phair Talks Tour, Defends 'Funstyle'

  March 30, 2011 – Liz Phair has been out on the road promoting her self-released album Funstyle -- and what the songstress liked most about this year's SXSW was that it marked the celebratory end of her tour trek. "It's a nice way to be like 'Done! Let's Party!'" she told SPIN.Phair thinks some critics missed the mark in attacking her record. "It has been really fun and funny to watch people's reactions to Funstyle," she said. …
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  Black Lips Defend Their Southern Pride

  March 29, 2011 – Rowdy Atlanta rockers the Black Lips have a new record coming out on June 7 titled Arabia Mountain, and guitarist Ian St. Pé tells SPIN that the Mark Ronson-produced album "is hot!"But, as is the band's wont, there's a ton of tongue-in-cheek comedy as well: One of the songs, "Spidey's Curse," tells the story of Spider-Man being molested. "People don't know that happened," says frontman Cole Alexander. …
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  Panic! at the Disco Go French, Rock iPads

  March 25, 2011 – Panic! at the Disco are back with their third album, Vices & Virtues, and it's got a bunch of neat aspects of which frontman Brendon Urie and drummer Spencer Smith are really proud."There's a lot of cool little things we got to put on the record," Urie told SPIN, hanging out in the SPIN Shed in Austin, Texas. "We got a children's choir. …
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  B.o.B. Says Next Album Might Be Out This Year!

  March 25, 2011 – A No. 1 album, with 500,000-plus in sales. Grammy nominations. MTV VMA performances. To say 2010 was a big year for Atlanta rapper B.o.B. would almost be a massive understatement. …
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  DJ A-Trak & Chromeo Talk Brotherly Love

  March 23, 2011 – Hip-hop DJ/Fool's Gold label honcho A-Trak and Dave 1 of electro-funk duo Chromeo may be stars in their respective music communities, but the real-life brothers' divergent musical careers have only helped boost their fame. "Chromeo got a broader reach in electronic music, and then A-Trak's stuff went beyond hip-hop, and then we both got reclaimed by the hip-hop community," Dave 1 told SPIN at SXSW. …
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  Moby Beats Insomnia on Chilled Out New LP

  March 22, 2011 – Moby's upcoming May album is a chilled-out collection of woozy, ambient electronica — but the laptop whiz revealed that he made much of Destroyed (along with an accompanying book of photographs) while under considerable stress. …
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  Indie Rock All-Stars Wild Flag Rev It Up in Austin

  March 22, 2011 – Wild Flag is a new band, and most of their gigs at and leading up to SXSW were typical new band fodder: a tiny club in Brooklyn, a bike shop in Austin. Oh, yeah. And Radio City Music Hall, for two nights supporting Bright Eyes. …
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  Breakout MC Theophilus London Talks New Album

  March 22, 2011 – Last month, SPIN.com premiered Lovers Holiday, the new EP from Brooklyn rapper Theophilus London, and it was a breakout hit on the site. Then the lanky MC sold out a headline gig at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. We took notice, and wanted to hear more from him at SXSW."I just finished my record and we're gonna rehearse for the whole month with a full band," London told SPIN at the Shed studiosin Austin. …
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  Duran Duran: Will New Album Reboot Career?

  March 22, 2011 – South by Southwest is an annual proving ground for budding bands pining to break out of obscurity. But while Duran Duran are certainly anything but obscure, the chart-topping British pop band embraced the start-up attitude for their trip to Austin this year."We started off very low key with this project," drummer Roger Taylor told us in the SPIN Shed, talking about All You Need Is Now, which hit stores this week. …
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  Staying Soulful With Indie Supergroup Gayngs

  March 22, 2011 – Not only is Gayngs a supergroup, but it's super-sized. Featuring members of Bon Iver, the Rosebuds, Solid Gold, Megafaun, Digitata, the Doomtree family, and loads more, the 20-plus-member band is in the midst of its final stretch of shows supporting last year's sexy, downtempo album, Relayted. …
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