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Proper. release ‘The Great American Novel,’ a concept album meditating on Black genius

Proper. are back with a new album, The Great American Novel, via Father/Daughter Records and Big Scary Monsters (U.K./Europe). Vocalist Erik Garlington spoke at length about the meaning behind — and the importance of — the new record in a press release. Read more: The Killers release “The Getting By II” from ‘Pressure Machine (Deluxe)’ […]

9 rising emo artists who could become your next favorite band

If anyone had told us in 2005 that emo culture wasn’t going to dominate forever, we would’ve rolled our eyes. Of course, as time went on, it became clear that no cultural shifts are permanent. And as quickly as we’d found ourselves perusing iTunes and blogging about My Chemical Romance, it all went away.  Not […]