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Seven Things to Remember for SXSW 2011

By Rachael Maddux on 7:00 AM on March 21, 2010

Dear Future Self, Remember that time...  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

Seven Tweeters To Follow At SXSW 2010

By Rachel Dovey on 7:00 AM on March 19, 2010

If, like me, this is your first year at SXSW, you’re probably walking around, map and iPhone at the ready, getting desperately lost whenever you veer off of Sixth Street. But Twitter can help you navigate the maze of people and music (it can help you with most things in life, actually). Here is a list of discerning critics, industry folk and superfans to help you get the most out of downtown Austin, and maybe even find out which hole-in-the-wall pub Bill Murray is bartending at....  read more

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The Tallest Man on Earth Signs with Dead Oceans, Plans New Album for April

By Lindsey Lee on 5:30 PM on January 25, 2010

The Tallest Man on Earth (AKA: Kristian Matsson), is one of the many cool kids from Sweden (see Lykke Li, Jose Gonzalez, jj, etc.) who have, of late, burst onto the American independent-music scene. Matsson has opened for Bon Iver and grabbed critics’ attention with Shallow Graves, his quietly wonderful debut. Now, his second LP will be out in April via Dead Oceans....  read more

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Download jj's "Ecstasy"

By Paste Staff on 1:45 PM on January 4, 2010

Download jj's "Ecstasy" here.jj's jj nº 3 will be released March 9 on Secretly Canadian....  read more

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The 37 Awesomest Songs of 2009

By Nick Marino on 7:00 AM on December 20, 2009

The album really died for me this year...  read more

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The Year's Greatest Musical Obscurity

By Nick Marino on 7:00 AM on October 28, 2009

We make no secret about our affection for the music of Sweden. And lately, one artist in particular has been making us giddy. The “band,” or whatever, is called JJ and we know almost nothing about him/it/them, though we prefer to imagine the act as a boy-girl duo like the Eurythmics. In any event, JJ’s 2009 album jj n° 2 (whatever that means!) is probably the year’s greatest obscurity. There are at least nine reasons to buy this album, because there are nine songs, none of them bad. So join us as we go track-by-track in an attempt to...  read more

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