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DIPLO'S BOOK '128 Beats Per Minute'

Diplo's new book, 128 Beats Per Minute, wth photos by Shaun McCauley, documents the travels that have influenced his music and vision.

Live Review: Groovin The Moo Spotlight: Hermitude

Purple Sneakers catches up with Hermitude for a quick chat as we get more and more pumped for Groovin the Moo. May can you please hurry up!

PARTIES: CAN'T SAY Turn 1!

Oh yeah. It's the birthday party of the year down on Banana Alley. Help our Can't Say friends celebrate in style.

Live Review: LISTEN: TV GIRL 'Benny & The Jetts'

As a criminally underrated band, TV Girl's gorgeously sunny lyrics and melodies are bound to change this on 'Benny and the Jetts'.

Features / Music

Top 5 Indie Couples Who Just Couldn't Make It

We're a voyeuristic bunch here at Purple Sneakers. Celebrity splits are a guilty pleasure, especially those of the indie rock persuasion.

Features / Music

FLASHBACK: Hole 'Celebrity Skin'

With all the scandals, you might forget that Courtney Love was in a band called Hole, whose album Celebrity Skin progressed beyond grudge.

Features / Music

REVIEW: Chromatics 'Kill For Love'

Chromatics' new album, following up on 2007's Night Drive is full of synthgasms and knock-out indie tracks. You'll yearn for more.

Live Review: WATCH: Unknown Mortal Orchestra 'Nerve Damage'

Unknown Mortal Orchestra are here to blow your mind. So don't watch this clip if you're on anything- your response may be less than ideal.

Live Review: LISTEN: Holy Esque ‘Rose’

HOLY ESQUE are a group of young lads from Glasgow who are currently being globally hyped for the release of their first EP.

Features / Music

WATCH: Rainbow Chan 'Lovefool'

Sydney's Rainbow Chan makes twisted, adorable music, and her cover of The Cardigans's 'Lovefool' is no exception.

Live Review: LISTEN: Japandroids 'Jack the Ripper'

This is a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cover that is surprisingly worthy. It's got all the noise rock you've come to expect from Japandroids.

Live Review: LISTEN: The Flaming Lips and Bon Iver 'Ashes in the Air'

The Flaming Lips and Bon Iver are giving you exactly what you were waiting for- something very very odd. But cool in a really odd way...

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