Chris Walker

Meet Anna. She's 23. She's hot. She's white. And she lip-syncs the N-word in breakout Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky's video "Purple Swag." But this hasn't caused widespread condemnation. In fact, it only seems to have added to her appeal. (Maybe it's the lip gloss and gold grills.) In a recent......

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Little Boots Bardot 11-21-11 Better than...studying on a school night. Over two years have passed since Victoria Hesketh, AKA Little Boots, released her debut album Hands. The electro pop work was popular in England, earning her a top 5 position in the UK album charts and winning the BBC's Best......

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Royce Hall, UCLA 11-17-11 Better than...Liam's nasally singing on "Wonderwall" What do Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney, Q-Tip, and David Lee Roth all have in common? Each have attempted solo careers after their immensely popular groups, to varying degrees of success. In Noel's Gallagher's case, last......

Future Islands is on a mission -- to not have one. Five years after their founding, the Baltimore trio remains as categorically amorphous as ever. Their Twitter tagline contends that they're "Too noisy for new wave, too pussy for punk," and indeed they go out of their way to skirt......

AraabMuzik Mondrian Hotel 11-11-11 AraabMuzik can move his fingers so fast that they appear to become a single blur. I can vouch for this because I was standing less than five feet away. Last night, I capped off my celebration of Nigel Tufnel day by heading over to the Mondrian......

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