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Tag-teamwork: Hear wife-and-husband Rabbit Rabbit’s “Curious One”

Each with boundary-pushing credits a mile long, wife-and-husband tag-team Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi are one of those consummate couples — the kind of musical pairing that belongs together.

Life as a touring punk musician: Watch Retox’s YPLL doc in full

Last week we premiered footage from Retox’s YPLL documentary, giving an in-depth look at the existence of the punk-hardcore outfit and touching on realities that face bands looking to play music for a living. Now, as promised, here’s the hour-long film in full.

Watch a hallucinatory preview of Queens of the Stone Age’s “Kalopsia”

It’s been six years since the last Queens of the Stone Age album, and Josh Homme and co. are making up for lost time with the no-filler …Like Clockwork on June 4.

Girls + records + B&W artiness

Obsessed with vinyl and the female form? Visit the unabashedly titled fuckyeahgirlswithvinylrecords.tumblr.com to get your fix.

The Great Gatsby limited-edition vinyl set

Blingin’ vinyl: Third Man moves gold/platinum records from wall to turntable

Jack White’s Third Man Records is taking a cue from The Great Gatsby’s glittering scenery and releasing a fittingly extravagant collectable — a two-disc gold and platinum metallized record set.

Hammacher Schlemmer Portable Solar Speaker

Harness the sun’s rays to power this portable Bluetooth solar speaker

With spring weather finally hitting the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a good time to think about music accessories for the season’s barbeques, beach parties, picnics, and soirées. Enter the Hammacher Schlemmer portable solar-powered speaker.

Cider surge: Stella Artois finally shares hard apple brew with USA

Sometimes you just don’t want beer. Luckily, for fans of Stella Artois who are in a fruitier mood, the Belgian brewer is introducing a new hard cider into the US market.

Q&A: Massive Attack producer Neil Davidge scores the next chapter in Halo’s legacy

Massive Attack producer Neil Davidge was tapped to score the latest iteration of the Halo series, Halo 4. We talked to him about fandom, scale, and the challenges of working in interactive media.

Louder Than Hell: Heavy-metal history gets definitive tome

Louder than Hell tells a 700-page history of heavy metal, straight from the mouths of the shredders.

Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn release collaborative, limited-edition book for a Tin Pan retrospective

Tom Waits is an arresting personality. And looking back over his entire oeuvre, photographer/director Anton Corbijn has been there to capture him.

Taiwanese death metal and epic martial arts in Chthonic’s “Defenders of Bú-Tik Palace”

Chthonic: Bú-Tik (Spinefarm, 6/18/13)

Taiwanese melodic-death-metal outfit Chthonic is a unique group in many ways. For one, it’s not every day that a symphonic metal group chooses to include a hena or erhu (a traditional two-string bowed fiddle) into the mix. Also, there’s the band’s ongoing advocacy of Taiwanese history and culture in its music, from lyrical content to music videos. In short, Chthonic is committed to its craft, and as the video for “Defenders of Bú-Tik Palace” shows, neither thunderstorm, nor gravity, nor sword-wielding cyborg general can stop it.

Witness the unsung art of Sign Painters in touring documentary

A book published last year and a film currently touring chronicle the fall and rise of Sign Painters, the artists behind the beautiful, hand painted work you ignore every day, as they struggle to affirm an art form threatened by the fast paced modern world.