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By
Devin Duckworth
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Nov 28, 2011
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British songstress Florence Welch recently named "three of her favorite artists" (Rihanna, Jamie xx, and Drake), and decided to pay tribute to these entities by covering the famous track "Take Care" in the BBC Li...
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Sounds like:
Passion Pit,
Tahiti 80,
Two Door Cinema Club
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Nov 21, 2011
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You know what's freaky about this cover? No, it's not that it's amazingly good. It's that Birdy is only fifteen years of age. Yeah, try to wrap your head around that.As you might recall, "1901" in its original form was an upbeat, dancey track that en...
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3

By
Jason Grishkoff
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Oct 30, 2011
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This new Afrojack track is one hell of an electronica banger. Featured as the Essential Tune on BBC Radio1 this past week, the song has a beautifully melodic introduction, but begins to break down at around the 1 minute mark. That inevitably segues i...
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4

Sounds like:
Four Tet,
Madlib,
Flying Lotus
By
Dwayne
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Oct 16, 2011
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This will be the most chilled song you'll hear all week. Scratch that, maybe all year. Maybe even more. When listening to Shlohmo, it's pretty much impossible not to relax, as the notes roll off each other like syrup, and a ever-so-slightly melanchol...
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5

Sounds like:
Editors,
Interpol,
The Antlers
By
Jason Grishkoff
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Oct 7, 2011
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I didn't think I'd ever see a cover of The National's "Bloodbuzz Ohio," but I appear to have horrendously misjudged that one. Not only that, but Oh Land's rendition doesn't take the route of acoustic guitars (as so many covers do), but instead introd...
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6

Sounds like:
Main Attrakionz,
Elzhi,
Eminem
By
sweeney kovar
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Sep 9, 2011
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Danny Brown might have been considered a fringe artist this time last year, but the recent release of his newest (free!) album XXX and its proceeding reception show that the hybrid's popularity is growing by the day. A quick recap: In the mid 2000s D...
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7

Sounds like:
Julio Bashmore,
Lil Silva,
Dark Sky,
T. Williams
By
Dwayne
on
Aug 25, 2011
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Before you even think about pressing play, I have to warn you that what you hear will be extrememly hard to remove from your head; I've had this Mosca track constantly on a loop in my head since I first heard it a few days ago.If you're willing to go...
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8

By
Dwayne
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Jul 4, 2011
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For those with their fingers firmly on the garage pulse, we might seem a little tardy in posting this. But surprisingly, despite how long it's been around, this has only just been fully released by Bristol's Julio Bashmore on his new EP Everyone Need...
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