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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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Enter Our Raffle To Win A Visit And Home-Cooked Meal From Drew Magary

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Lauren Theisen

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Music

The Dream Of The 1980s Is Alive And Unwell On Atlantic City Playlists

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Soraya Roberts

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In Communion With MJ Lenderman

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Barry Petchesky

UNITED STATES - MAY 01: Photo of MEGADETH (Photo by Michael Uhll /Redferns)

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Megadeth’s Big ‘Risk’ Did Not Pay Off

<p>Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.</p>


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Nicholas Russell

The new Alchem-E Gold Ex drum set, made by Zildjian.

Drumroll, please: Norwell cymbal maker Zildjian enters the digital age

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Tom-Tom C’est Moi

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Sunset Rubdown Photo Credit

Sunset Rubdown’s Spencer Krug Doesn’t Want To Live In The Past Forever

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Billy Haisley

The artist Brunderr (L) performs during the filming of a music video at the Baile Funk of the Heliopolis favela in the south of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 20, 2024. Born in the impoverished favelas, Rio de Janeiro funk music has emerged as a global phenomenon, embraced by superstars like Anitta and Beyonce and starring in museum shows, though it still faces stigma in Brazil.

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A Washed American’s Guide To The Boundless Underworld Of Brazilian Funk

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Israel Daramola

Rich Homie Quan performs onstage at The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre on September 01, 2023 in Detroit, Michigan.

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Arts And Culture

Rich Homie Quan Got To The Top Of The Mountain

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Kelsey McKinney

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Outside Lands Music Festival 2024

Chappell Roan Confronts The Sickness Of Modern Fandom

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Should I Die For Orville Peck?

<p>A Rockies fan by birth and a White Sox fan by geographic proximity, Annie Howard spends her non-suffering sports moments ardently rooting for the Nuggets and the Orioles.</p>


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Annie Howard

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A Small Catalog Of Reflections On Aging Made Possible By Los Campesinos!

<p>Brandy Jensen lives in New Orleans with her dogs.</p>


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Brandy Jensen

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Patrick Redford

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Wings Week

Wait By The Door, Light A Cigarette, And Listen To Miranda Lambert With Defector Music Club

People during the concert before the meeting with Franklin Graham in Krakow, Poland on April 13, 2024. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto)

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Why Are So Many Concert Tours Getting Canceled?

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The Year’s Best Rap Album Wants To Take You To The Future

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Busy Bird Feeder

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You’re A Birder, James Hetfield

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Charli XCX, Lorde, And The Trap Of The “Girl’s Girl”

Kendrick Lamar at Life Is Beautiful 2023 on September 23, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Life Is Beautiful 2023 – Day 2 – Performance

Kendrick Lamar Gets His Curtain Call

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It’s Pop Girl Summer

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Los Angeles Kings music director, Dieter Ruehle, plays a 1941 Wurlitzer organ during the ribbon cutting and reopening of the LA Kings Iceland at Paramount on October 26, 2022 in Paramount California.

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The Stadium Organ Is Alive And As Goofy As Ever

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Drew Magary

Axl Rose – File Photo’s

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What Makes A Power Ballad?


<p>Corey Atad is a freelancer writer based in Toronto with an unhealthy Air Bud obsession.</p>


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The Decemberists Take Me Back And Forth

<p>Mitch Therieau is a writer in California.</p>


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American singer Rob Thomas, of the American rock band Matchbox Twenty, sings on stage during a concert in Los Angeles, California, circa 1996. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images)

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In Defense Of That Whole Weird ’90s Rock Marble-Mouthed Thing

<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Dan Brooks writes essays and fiction from Missoula, Montana.</span></i></p>


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Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour at MetLife Stadium on July 21, 2018 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Culture Needs More Jerks

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How Many Times Is Too Many Times?

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Electric Callboy Is The World’s Heaviest And Greatest Boy Band

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Steve Albini performs with his band Shellac at the FYF Fest in Los Angeles in 2016.

FYF Fest 2016 – Day 1

Everyone Has A Steve Albini Album