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Is your human iPod not keeping up with the latest club bangers? Would you rather listen to the Avicii remix instead of the Eric Prydz one? Are you a DJ that's tired of telling people [...]

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Finally putting that gym membership to good use for the first month of the year isn't always the easiest thing to do. You have to put in the time doing the actual work at the [...]

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When it comes to making music, Trent Reznor is, quite literally, a one man band. When he's not busy being Nine Inch Nails he's one of the most influential composers/producers/songwriters in the business. He's written [...]

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If you're like us, you've been thinking, "When is someone going to step up and make a damn Transformers themed ukulele!?" We know, right? Well thankfully our long wait is over. Seriously though, this Autobot Transformer Ukulele is [...]

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Cards on the table, we haven't picked up a guitar in ages. We were never very good at it to begin with, so it serves a much better purpose hanging on the wall as art [...]

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There's no shortage of music getting released every Tuesday, but it's no secret that most of it is auto-tuned, over-produced, collaborative trash. We want gritty, no bullshit, no nonsense rock that we can put on [...]

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Drinkify is a website that tells you the perfect drink to enjoy with whatever band or artist you happen to be listening to. When we first stumbled upon it all we could think was that, that [...]

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These days, alternative rock music can be anything from The Strokes to Yeah Yeah Yeahs and just about everything in between. In the early 1980s though, it didn't even exist. And then R.E.M. came along. [...]

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Bono and the rest of U2 might be more about big hair, big sunglasses and big arenas more than political revolution these days, but at one point in time their music didn't feel so forced. [...]

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Unless you're Dave Grohl or some other mega-famous guitar player (we'll assume you aren't, our apologies to Dave who is no doubt reading this) you may not want to be chucking these bad boys into [...]

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David Guetta is a big time French producer/remix artist/DJ/electronic music wizard, but his music isn't for everyone. If you aren't into the Top 40 style, Black Eyed Peas pop that you hear on the radio [...]

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This post is brought to you by Rdio - Unlimited Music. Everywhere With only a few solid weekends left before the end of the summer, it's about time to start planning the Labor [...]

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This post is brought to you by Rdio - Unlimited Music. Everywhere With some help from our friends at Rdio, we got you through Lollapalooza and some Summer day drinking [...]

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At some point in every growing boy's life he dreams of being a rockstar. Maybe you actually made it and you're reading this from an incredibly posh tour bus, but the odds are your axe [...]

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This post is brought to you by Rdio - Unlimited Music. Everywhere Finally coming down from the musical high that was Lollapalooza (check out the Lollapalooza Playlist for some highlights), it's time [...]

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