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Liquid [Hip] : The Girl Effect Is A Good Will Pick
There are two ways you can think about the 250 million adolescent girls who live in poverty on our planet. You can see them as statistics, victims who need us to provide for their well being day in and day out. Or you can see them for who they are —...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 6:08am -07:00T (845 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Hanni El Khatib Digs Deep In The Dirt
It has been a few years since the Hanni El Khatib had cobbled together enough tracks to put out an album. With the help of producer Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), he rolled up his sleeves and finally did it. Head In The Dirt punks up Americana with a ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 6:53am -07:00T (660 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Robinson Comes Ashore Island 731
There wasn't a unit in the Imperial Japanese Army more frightening than 731. During the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, this was the same unit that undertook ruthless and lethal experimentation on civilians and prisoners of war to advance c...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:08am -07:00T (714 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Deap Vally Goes Out Ferociously Deap
With their debut album Sistrionix already slated for release in June by the San Fernando duo Deap Vally, Get Deap! is much ado about priming the cult following that Lindsey Troy (guitar/vocals) and Julie Edwards (drums) have earned. For the better pa...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 7:23am -07:00T (625 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Grind London Flirts With Contradiction
London-born Youssef Metwali has become somewhat of an enigma on the British "streetwear" scene over the last few years. As the co-founder of Grind London, an apparel line that transcends what some people call Tumblr brands, he works hard to immerse hi...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 7:08am -07:00T (740 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Beware The Darkness Shreds Orthodox
Sporting a slightly different look and settling into a relatively specific sound, Los Angeles-based Beware The Darkness is solidifying itself as a razor sharp rock power trio. Something here just works.
Coming off their successful Howl EP, the Sout...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 6:37am -07:00T (673 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : The Roger New York Wears A Bow Tie
Earlier this year, I had a chance to take a return trip to New York City and stayed somewhere I never expected. While I prefer places that are tried and true most of the time, one of my friends suggested I stay at the recently renovated The Roger (not...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 6:23am -07:00T (852 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Black Apples Peel Off From A Bushel
Last year, Los Angeles-based Black Apples peeled off more than 40 demos at Station House last year. That's about a bushel of music. But instead of releasing another album to follow up their self-released debut, the band hand-picked five to polish and ...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 6:23am -07:00T (704 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Frank Calabrese Jr. On Family Secrets
By his own account, Frank Calabrese, Jr. had reached a crossroads. There were two choices he could make. He could be a rat or he could be a murderer. He chose the former.
Operation Family Secrets: How A Mobster’s Son and the FBI Brought Down Chic...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 6:08am -07:00T (879 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Lydia Puts Out Indie Pop With Devil
Ever since Lydia came together in Gilbert, Arizona, it was destined to have its share of dustups and dramas. The lineup has changed more often than some bands change guitar picks. The worst of the breaks occurred in 2010, shortly after Mindy White lef...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 6:38am -07:00T (695 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Wacom Still Wins As A Drawing Tool
While I don't have the same artistic talent as our editor, there have been times when I felt inspired enough to sketch out an idea. It happens from time to time when you write reviews. There are artists and designers everywhere it seems — and more a...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 7:23am -07:00T (681 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Ana Popovic Can Stand The Heat
There aren't too many blues women who come tougher than Ana Popović. The Belgrade born singer who was introduced to the world of blues by her father and started playing guitar at 15 continues to have an amazing run with a solo career that keeps getti...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 6:23am -07:00T (584 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Kushner Lights Up A Flamethrower
There was something almost sad about the late 70s. The art scene galvanized by Warhol had hit a crescendo of sorts. The meteoric rise was slowing down despite creating circles of loosely connected free-spirited, artistic and radical individuals who ma...
Dateline: 2013-05-03 6:38am -07:00T (878 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Beach Day Likes Walks, Boys, Shoes
Not everyone will like Beach Day, but Kanine Records started sneaking out singles for the band back in December anyway. They've released three of them now, just enough to make a 5-track EP.
It's hard to say if they will or won't. The 60s centered g...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 6:23am -07:00T (677 words)
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Liquid [Hip] : Vikings Take On The History Channel
While most have heard of the fictional sensation Game Of Thrones (Thrones) on HBO, there is another series that takes its inspiration from the pages of history. Set roughly 600 years before the War Of The Roses, which largely inspired Thrones, Vikings has...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 7:38am -07:00T (774 words)
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