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Album Review: The xx ‘Coexist’

The xx gained a little bit of notoriety leading up to the release of Coexist by first streaming the album from their own website, with a map to show the way that the music spread over the Internet and the world. A nifty idea,

Music Midtown 2012: A Review

We’ve wrapped the second year of Music Midtown in Atlanta, and the expanded two-day festival brought in more bands and more fans to the belly of Piedmont Park. Although the cool relief of fall has been digging in its heels of late, there was

Sticker Disclaimers on Artist’s Albums

In the same week that Chris Brown unveiled his horribly misguided new neck tattoo, a rather opportunist and cheeky HMV customer decided to further highlight the R&B star’s well-publicized offense by placing a ‘Do Not Buy This Album! This Man Beats Women’ sticker on

How Much Do Bands Make to Play Private Events?

With album sales currently in free fall and showing little sign of recovery, the live stage has now become the main way to earn a crust for most artists. But those raking in seven-figure sums aren’t necessarily having to embark on mammoth year-long world