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Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser gets asteroid named after her

Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser has one of the most celestial voices in all of pop and now she’s got an actual asteroid named after her.

NYU students are 'hipsters', says Spotify data on college listening habits (Cornell likes to 'chill')

Spotify released the listening data for students at universities throughout America, and as the college section of USA Today points out, NYU ranked #1 in what Spotify considers “hipster” music:We don’t need Spotify data to tell us NYU is cool…

are guitarists' brains different from everybody else's? (science apparently says so)

Bon Iver at Angel Orensanz in 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro) Ever wondered if guitar players’ brains work differently than everybody else’s’…

'All American Music Map' maps favorite music genres by state (NY is not very punk)

THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE LIKE PUNK (actual interactive map HERE) Check out the ‘All American Music Map’ HERE. How’d they do it?“We calculated musical taste scores using data from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the U…

Trophy Scars releasing 'Holy Vacants' (stream a track), playing release shows in NYC & NJ

DOWNLOAD: Trophy Scars – Hagiophobia (MP3) Morristown, NJ’s Trophy Scars have been through many sounds in their 12-year career. They started as a straightforward post-hardcore band (comparative to their later works at least), and their 2006 sophomore LP, Alphabet…

Bill Nye the Science Guy shopping a new TV show, doing three nights at Irving Plaza

With his quirky/funny ’90s-era afternoon PBS show, Bill Nye “the Science Guy” taught a lot of us about the world around us and beyond. He’s been back in the news lately, debating creationist Ken Ham back in February, hanging with Cosmos/Star Talk host Neil deGrasse Tyson and President Obama, and currently shopping around a demo reel of a new TV show pitch…

British study finds that metalheads are pretty much how you think they are

MDF 2011 (more’s career, for better or worse) to the controversial 2011 Melbourne University study that suggested that obsessive metal listening leads to suicide, academic studies of metal tend to generate more heat than light…
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