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        Former WU LYF Members Comment on Breakup, Form Yacht Rock Band

        Photo: Ikram Bouloum Sakkali

        WU LYF

        Photo: Ikram Bouloum Sakkali

        By Andrew Parks, eMusic Contributor

        Nearly six months after their frontman announced their breakup with the YouTube statement "WU LYF is dead to me," the rest of the band has revealed their new project, Los Porcos. Speaking to NME, drummer Joe Manning said, "We all knew [WU LYF] wasn't working. There's no one explanation for it. There's a million reasons that don't amount to much more than it just didn't work. No one is trying to cover anything up. If it doesn't work it's going to break eventually."

        Check out a couple examples of the group's 'yacht-rock' output below, via Pitchfork... more »

        Tags: Los Porcos, WU LYF, news
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        25 Bands to See at Coachella 2012

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        By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorThere is every other music festival and then there is Coachella, the California-desert weekend that, in many ways, set the template for all that followed. The first U.S. festival to boast big-ticket reunions and all-over-the-map… more »

        Tags: Amon Tobin, Andrew Bird, At The Drive-In, Coachella, Dr. Dre, Egypt 80, First Aid Kit, Flying Lotus, Godspeed You! Black Emporer, Jimmy Cliff, Kendrick Lamar, Laura Marling, Lissie, M83, Mazzy Star, Noel Gallagher, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Pulp, Radiohead, Refused, Santigold, Seun Kuti, Sleeper Agent, Snoop Dogg, The Black Keys, The Vaccines, Thundercat, We Are Augustines, WU LYF, Guide, List
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        eMusic’s Best Albums of 2011

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        By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorIt was a year full of surprising breakouts and breathtaking discoveries, with reliable favorites from familiar faces and strong entries from new voices. These are our Top 100 Records of 2011. more »

        Tags: 3 Cohens, Adele, Aram Shelton's Arrive, Army Navy, Ben Allison, Best of 2011, Beyonce, Bon Iver, Britney Spears, CANT, Cass McCombs, Charles Bradley, Chelsea Wolfe, Coldplay, Conquering Animal Sound, Craig Taborn, Crystal Stilts, Cults, Curren$y, Cut Copy, Dave Douglass, Dirty Beaches, DJ Quick, Drake, Dum Dum Girls, EMA, Fleet Foxes, Florence + the Machine, Future Islands, G-Side, Generationals, Gillian Welch, Gretchen Parlato, Hilary Hahn, Hollie Cook, Holy Ghost!, Iceage, James Blake, Jay-Z, Jessica Lea Mayfield, John Maus, Kanye West, Kate Bush, Katy B, Kekko Fornarelli, Kendrick Lamar, Killer Mike, Krallice, Laura Marling, Liturgy, Low, Lykke Li, M83, Megafaun, Mike Watt, NewVillager, Nicolas Jaar, Nitin Mitta, Okkervil River, Oneohtrix Point Never, Other Lives, P.J. Harvey, Panda Bear, Paul Simon, Peaking Lights, Portugal. The Man, Prasanna, Radiohead, Real Estate, Sepalcure, Shabazz Palaces, Skeletonwitch, Sleeper Agent, Smith Westerns, So Percussion, Subrosa, Terell Stafford, The Antlers, The Black Keys, The Decemberists, The Field, The Joy Formidable, The Men, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Roots, The Vaccines, The War On Drugs, The Weather Station, Tim Berne, Toby Twining, Tom Waits, Trap Them, Tunnel Six, TV on the Radio, Veronica Falls, Vijay Iyer, Washed Out, We Are Augustines, Widowspeak, Wilco, WU LYF, Yellow Ostrich, Youth Lagoon, Yuck, Zola Jesus, List