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alt-j this is all yours

For alt-J, recordings are a ticket to the afterlife (so don’t mess up)

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Interview Alfie Allen Game of Thrones

What’s coming from <em>Game of Thrones</em> Season 5 (and a look back at the cruelest cut)

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The Audiophile Kate Pierson Guitars and Microphones

After decades propelling the B-52s with her throaty growl, Kate Pierson flies solo

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The Audiophile Michelle Chamuel Face the Fire

After facing judges on The Voice, Michelle Chamuel faces the fire in the studio

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The Audiophile Butch Walker Afraid of Ghosts

Butch Walker is all about that tape, about that tape (no digital)

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hoon lee discusses season 3 of cinemaxs tv show banshee 007

Banshee’s Hoon Lee plays the most badass cross-dressing hacker you’ll ever meet

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The Audiophile Marky Ramone

iTunes ‘sounds so small’ to punk rock founding father Marky Ramone

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The Ting Tings Super Critical

Slow down! The Ting Tings Katie White gets Super Critical about modern dance music

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interview david crosby hates mp3 loves pono and hi res audio croz audiophile

‘You’re being cheated.’ David Crosby might hate MP3s even more than Neil Young does

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Audiophile Simple Minds Big Music

Did Simple Minds fast forward, or new bands rewind? Big Music sounds fresh either way

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The Wire cast members reminisce as an HD Christmas marathon kicks off

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Audiophile DevonAllman Ragged & Dirty

Rocker Devon Allman talks vinyl, vibing and hearing his dad on the radio

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interview cut copy dj dan whitford talks oceans apart audiophile

‘There are no rules.’ No -fi is too lo or hi for Cut Copy DJ Dan Whitford

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Audiophile | Angels & Airwaves | The Dream Walker

Tom DeLonge on Blink-182’s legacy and dreaming big with Angels & Airwaves

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interview the pixies david lovering on doolittle turning 25 audiophile 004

The Pixies’ David Lovering talks high-res, Doolittle, the death of a drumkit

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the pixies doolittle 25th anniversary joey santiago interview 1 of 2 audiophile 009

In case of catastrophe, listen to vinyl! And more from the Pixies’ Joey Santiago

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interview the kinks dave davies on rippin up time hd audio and more cover art

How The Kinks’ Dave Davies changed the course of rock with a sliced speaker cone

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interview king crimsons adrian belew tells all about flux music app audiophile 002

Guitar wizard Adrian Belew on how his Flux app creates bite-size music for the Twitter era

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Pink Floyd The Endless River

For their last-ever album The Endless River, Pink Floyd recorded on a boat

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decoding the secret sauce in sunset overdrives soundtrack overdrive review arsenal

Kick out the jams, mofos: Secrets of Sunset Overdrive’s punktastic soundtrack

Gaming News
Audiophile Joe Perry Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith

For Aerosmith’s Joe Perry, feeling ‘in the room’ is the pinnacle of hi-fi sound

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interview wayne coyne of the flaming lips on remaking sgt pepper with miley cyrus color band shot photo by george salisbury

If Sgt. Pepper wasn’t weird enough, count on The Flaming Lips to turn up the dial

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Audiophile: Gary Numan

While hipsters relive the sound he pioneered, Gary Numan keeps forging forward

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The Audiophile Joe Bonamassa

Blues maestro Joe Bonamassa: Hi-res is hype, digital is clinical, bleed is good

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interview the band coves talks vinyl vs digital creativity recording press photo 1 by steve gullick

Digital? Nah. For Coves, the perfect sound is somewhere in a black drain pipe

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interview depeche mode alumni vince clarke on modern synthpop recording erasure 2014 photo by joe dilworth

After pioneering synthpop with Depeche Mode, Vince Clarke just kept innovating

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billy corgan smashing pumpkins adore reissue 1

Billy Corgan on his 107-track Smashing Pumpkins reissue, and what’s ahead

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nick waterhouses retro infused records blazing trail modern mono waterhouse flickr

Nick Waterhouse’s retro-infused records are blazing the trail for modern mono

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What it’s like to remaster The Beatles albums, and why its sound is ‘way beyond compare’

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audiofile robyn hitchcock 2014 photo by laura partrain

Fetishizing cassettes, the dignity of LPs, more from the mind of Robyn Hitchcock

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greg nicotero interview walking dead fx special effects

Getting gory with the FX mastermind behind The Walking Dead

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Moody Blues Justin Hayward interview

‘How the hell did we do this?’ Moody Blues frontman Justin Hayward looks back

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brian setzer wrings classic rockabilly sound modern recording 2 photo by russ harrington

How Brian Setzer wrings classic rockabilly sound from modern recording

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master of improv steely dans guitarist knows when to riff reel it in jon herington live soloing photo by michael mancuso

Master of improv: Steely Dan’s guitarist knows when to riff, when to reel it in

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