Hip-hop duo Outkast may soon be ending their six-year hiatus by reuniting at Coachella 2014.
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Classic Grunge

Soundgarden is likely one of the most widely known bands under the banner of “Grunge.” It honestly feels as though they’ve been around forever, and that’s probably because they basically have been around since the beginning of the Seattle grunge movement of the late ’80s and into the mid-’90s. Most recently, the band has remastered the early releases Screaming Life and EP Fopp. As a remastered album, there aren’t any groundbreaking tunes to point out here. It’s not as though it is an album that can be compared to their previous work, since, well it is their previous work. Read more…

Industrial Off the Assembly Line

hERETICS iN tHE lAB are industrial music in the most classic sense. Solid state buzzsaw guitar riffage, dark, somewhat erotic lyrics, electronic glitches and mechanized triggered drums litter their newest offering Suture. The band makes no secret of the fact that they’re working from a somewhat derivative starting point. Their Facebook page openly acknowledges the frequent comparisons they garner to Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and Marilyn Manson—they’re apt, but none more so than that of Nine Inch Nails. For fans of industrial music, Suture will hit the right notes, but it fails to contribute anything new to the genre and certainly doesn’t approach the greatness of the band they’re clearly trying to sound like. Read more…

Tell the Passengers Instead

While Australia has been churning out its fair share of incredible tunes these past couple of years, let’s not forget the musicians who’ve been digging out a path for rock down under before The Temper Trap picked up their first guitars. Mick Turner’s been in and out of bands since the late ’70s, and one can say his experience is laid out before us in his solo effort, Don’t Tell the Driver. A cacophonous practice in tone and mood, it’s the perfect thing to throw on just before the holidays. Read more…

Monsterwave

Alex Cuervo, a.k.a. Espectrostatic, is part of a growing group of artists looking into the darker tones of their ’80s brethren. Armed with vintage synth equipment, a taste for VHS horror movies and neon colors, these musicians are going by retrowave, an anti-laptop answer to chillwave. Whether Cuervo actually produces his music with software or not isn’t really the question; his self-titled LP is filled with thick, lush and beefy synths to make anyone think they were inside of a Sam Raimi Flick. That’s definitely a good thing. Read more…

Progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me have announced that they will be headlining a North American tour in spring 2014.
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Dam-Funk and Snoopzilla, known together as 7 Days of Funk, will be holding a record release show at Exchange LA on December 10.
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Members of several bands will be getting together in late January to perform the Gene Clark album No Other.
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The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles will be hosting Cinquanta on May 10, the 50th birthday celebration of Maynard James Keenan of Tool.
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Now that the lineup is out for Coachella, it’s time to start getting excited for dusty lungs, burned necks and rubbing up on salty, sweaty strangers. That’s right, Coachella 2013 is nigh.

Whether or not you remember last year (for whatever reason, no judgment) or are planning your first trip out, here are 13 things I learned last year so you’ll be prepared for the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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