If you’re hitting up the MIA for the annual Art Basel fair this winter, we’ve got you covered. Rapper Flo Rida and bassist Zakk Sandler of metal up-and-comers Black Tide help us get our travel agent on.
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The Big Easy lets the good times roll, and not just during Mardi Gras. Soul queen Irma Thomas and Baby (a.k.a. Birdman) break it down.
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The Windy City isn’t home to just Barack Obama and deep-dish pizza. Locals Fall Out Boy and Lupe Fiasco fill us in on Chi-Town’s best destinations.
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Posted Thursday 06/19/2008 12:00 AM in
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Photographs by Brent Humphreys
It’s Coachella, bitches! Each spring, 60,000 of the most beautiful music fans on the planet flock to a sun-cracked polo field in the California desert to tan, drink and bob their heads to the coolest bands around. This year’s 130-act lineup featured everything from Ukrainian gypsy-punks to Floridian lesbian rappers; feast on four of our favorites in this behind-the-scenes photo essay.
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Posted Wednesday 04/23/2008 12:00 AM in
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Josh Eells
Each month, one lucky rock star phones
Blender HQ for seven days straight, just to, you know, share. Now on the line: deader-than-deadpan folk duo Flight of the Conchords.
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Posted Wednesday 04/23/2008 12:00 AM in
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Jonah Weiner
The biggest mouth in hip-hop loves Nirvana, loves codeine-spiked cough syrup even more—and has no idea what a koala is.
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Posted Tuesday 12/25/2007 10:00 AM in
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Two discoscuzz merchants, two hipster country acts, two actual country acts, two loopy geniuses who gave it away free—and 17 more reasons the album still isn’t dead.
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Posted Tuesday 12/25/2007 12:00 AM in
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David Fear
Our picks for the year’s top cinematic achievements, starring a soulless killer with a terrible haircut, six different incarnations of Bob Dylan and giant robots hell-bent on destroying Earth.
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Posted Monday 12/17/2007 8:05 PM in
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Rob Tannenbaum
If anyone deserves to gloat about their leap to A-list solo stardom, it’s former kids’-TV also-ran, girl-group flop and “Humps” punch line Fergie. So why is
Blender’s Woman of the Year … crying?
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Posted Monday 12/10/2007 10:00 AM in
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Elizabeth Goodman
Kanye West’s mother dies after undergoing cosmetic surgery, and her doctor’s shady history is scrutinized.
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Posted Friday 12/07/2007 10:00 AM in
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Jon Dolan
It’s the venues that got smaller, not Kelly Clarkson’s voice.
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