Tracklist: Lorde likes Mad Max

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>> 18-year-old friend of Taylor Swift Lorde went to see the new Mad Max: Fury Road movie, and she really enjoyed it, and she’s been thinking about it for days.

>> “I really despise pop music these days, so I can’t have people walking away humming songs. I’m totally about drawing lines in the sand: We’ve done this postmodern shrugging of the shoulders for a while now, and it hasn’t really worked out, so if I make pop music at this point, it’s by accident.” ~ Dan Bejar

>> Full Stream Ahead: Memeb, Surface EP, Dawes, All Your Favorite Bands, Jamie xx, In Colour (iTunes link), Messy Is the Bird, Chewed Up Boots, Baio (Chris Baio of Vampire Weekend), “Brainwash yyrr Face

>> Watch Julian Casablancas + the Voidz’s epic, Everthing Is Terrible!-esque, 13-min kitchen sink video for Tyranny track November RainHuman Sadness (live).” Oof. Let’s lighten things up a little, now, with Jenny Lewis’s Official Music Video for her very excellent The Voyager tune “She’s Not Me,” starring all your favorite people from all those things you like so much and are constantly trying to get me to watch.

>> Paste talks to The Vaccines’s Justin Young about moving to NYC, making mistakes, mastiff-sized dogs, and the band’s new album, English Graffiti.

>> Ciara takes her beauty to the throne of personality in a new Roberto Cavalli campaign.

>> Jack White yelling at clouds, again.


>> http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-world-needs-female-rock-critics

>> Years & Years’ “King” might be the song of the summer.

>> Strokes guitarist and solo artist Albert Hammond, Jr. collab’d on some ties.