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  Best Coast + Barrymore, Buddy Holly Stream + More

  June 20, 2011 – Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino has tapped actress Drew Barrymore to direct the video for her Crazy for You track "Our Deal." The clip, part of the MTV Supervideo series that pairs celebrities with musicians, will also star Community star and budding rapper Donald Glover and Miranda Cosgrove from the popular Nickelodeon show iCarly. …
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  10 Must-Have Releases for Record Store Day

  April 12, 2011 – Saturday, April 16, music fans will once again head out en masse for Record Store Day, an annual celebration, now in its fourth year, which finds artists large and small dropping special, mostly vinyl-only releases, and making them available exclusively in locally-owned, independent outlets worldwide. With literally hundreds of special titles being released for this year's event, SPIN's editors have compiled our shopping list of th …
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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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  Best & Worst Moments of SXSW 2011: Day 3

  March 19, 2011 – BEST RIDDIMS: LITTLE DRAGONBacked by her chopsy wrecking crew of stone-cold Swedes, Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano was the perfect musical muse and master of ceremonies, vamping and vogueing to the band's unerring mix of live drumming and arty electro pulse. …
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  Best Photos from SXSW: Day 2

  March 18, 2011 –  …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week: SXSW Edition!

  March 11, 2011 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! …
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  Bright Eyes Earns Radio City Music Hall Spotlight

  March 9, 2011 – There's something about watching any band play Radio City Music Hall that inherently feels like a coronation, a moment to savor and take stock -- must be the vaulted ceilings and the faint musk of old Rockettes. …
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  Indie Supergroup Wild Flag Debut in Olympia

  November 11, 2010 – "We are Wild Flag. We've never played a show outside our practice space so thanks for coming to this one." Those were Carrie Brownstein's first words at the first show for her new supergroup, featuring 90s indie icons Mary Timony of Helium, the Minders' Rebecca Cole, and Brownstein's Sleater-Kinney bandmate Janet Weiss. The location? Olympia, Washington, the city where many of the era's finest riot grrrl bands formed. …
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