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How a Cartoon Band Landed a Real-life Tournew

Brendon Small earned his hardcore musical cred in a most unusual manner – through a cartoon. He is the creator, writer and main voice actor of the hit cartoon series, Metalocalypse.

NOW Magazine | Evan Davies | 06-23-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dethalbum, Dethklok, Adult Swim, cartoons, animation, heavy metal, Metalocalypse

Dark Meat Massive Lets it All Hang Outnew

The Athens-based 17-piece band insists that it's members are not really communal-living hippie dope fiends, although they do enjoy fucking shit up.

NOW Magazine | Tim Perlich | 05-27-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dark Meat, Universal Indians

Five Bands That Could Pass as Creepy Cultsnew

Dark Meat isn't the first hairy-scary music ensemble to be mistaken for some bizarre quasi-religious cult. Here are a few more that could qualify for a tax exemption.

NOW Magazine | Tim Perlich | 05-27-2008 | Music

Tags: Dark Meat, Polyphonic Spree, Man Man, Broken Social Scene, cults

The Heavy Dwell on Funk's Darksidenew

If your bandmates are weedy tossers from Bath, you don't go around calling yourselves the Heavy unless you can deliver the wall-shaking goods.

NOW Magazine | Tim Perlich | 05-12-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Counter Records, Great Vengeance And Furious Fire, Ninja Tune, nu-funk, The Heavy

South Rakkas Crew Balance Hipster Hype with Dancehall Reggae Respectnew

One minute they're putting out riddim records featuring some of the biggest names in reggae and the next they're dropping futuristic dancehall electro on Diplo's Mad Decent label.

NOW Magazine | Benjamin Boles | 05-12-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: dance music, dancehall, electro, South Rakkas Crew

Cut Copy Riding Melbourne's Next Wavenew

While Cut Copy are clear leaders of this beat-thumping new wave from Australia, a full crop of followers are hot on their heels, most of whom are friends.

NOW Magazine | Jason Keller | 05-12-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: electronic, indie dance, electropop, Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours, Modular Recordings

Foals Aren't in It for the Money or the Famenew

If every so-called "new Radiohead" group sounded as energetic, enthusiastic and decidedly unlike any overwrought Thom Yorke self-indulgence as these reformed math rockers, the music world would be a much better place.

NOW Magazine | Tim Perlich | 05-02-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: indie rock, dance punk, Antidotes, Foals, Trangressive Records

Robyn Repositionednew

People on this side of the pond are finally catching on to the reinvented Swedish future-pop darling; her latest album is getting a proper release here after much hype and blog love from the likes of Perez Hilton and hipster music sites like Pitchforkmedia.

NOW Magazine | Evan Davies | 05-02-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: pop, dance music, Robyn

Dan Bejar Creates Another Solid Albumnew

In between working on releases with his other projects (Swan Lake; Hello, Blue Roses and the New Pornographers), Dan Bejar somehow had time to record Trouble In Dreams.

NOW Magazine | Jordan Rimm | 04-18-2008 | Reviews

Tags: indie rock, Destroyer, indie pop, Dan Bejar, Merge Records, Trouble In Dreams

Slugging It Out in NYC Clubs Pays Off for DJ Eli Escobarnew

In the aftermath of the indie dance scene has helped open doors for people like Escobar, who can churn out hipster-friendly remixes with the best of them but also has the DJ skills to make his living playing big mainstream clubs as well as cool kid parties.

NOW Magazine | Benjamin Boles | 04-18-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: clubs, DJs, dance music, DJ Eli Escobar, indie dance