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The Weeknd Has a $325 Vape Now

Sometimes bro-douche accumulates enough layers to collapse into itself, making a tool singularity. The result, like an eclipse, compels you to burn your retinas as you can’t look away. But these days, Jersey Shore is […]

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RIFF’d: Ellie Goulding’s ‘Delirium’

Ellie Goulding has had enough of being ‘that girl who sang (X super-famous EDM track)’ without anyone knowing her name. She’s done with her remixers getting more attention of her tracks than she has. Like […]

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Taylor Swift Sued Over ‘Shake it Off’ Lyrics for $42 Million

Finally, the long-overdue Taylor Swift backlash might actually gain some ground. It really won’t, of course, as she’s more lawyered up than a frat boy with a DUI. But as it turns out the fairly moronic […]

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Pure Bathing Culture – ‘Pray for Rain’

If Beach House were more, well, beachy, this would be the result. Although I’m sure Pure Bathing Culture wouldn’t want to hear that comparison too much. Pray for Rain sounds like relaxation in either the hazy […]

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Air Force Pilots Grounded for Texting Miley Cyrus Lyrics

We like to party Dancing with Molly Doing whatever we want These were the Miley Cyrus lyrics found in texts between a couple pilots stationed at Laughlin Air Force base in Texas, reminiscing about some Las Vegas shenanigans they shared many […]

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RIFF’d: Josh Ritter’s ‘Sermon on the Rocks’

Josh Ritter delivers his Sermon on the Rocks like most preachers would — with as many references to commonly recognized Biblical images as possible, and some raunchy boasts for PG-13 appeal. NPR calls the album’s […]

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The More You Know: Katy Perry Sang on a 2006 P.O.D. Jam

Not particularly news, as it’s a nine-year-old story that anyone could’ve found on Wikipedia, but the internet is a peculiar beast, and thus here we are with message board bump for the fact that in 2006, a 23-year-old Katy […]

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RIFF’d: Protomartyr’s ‘The Agent Intellect’

Protomartyr’s The Agent Intellect is 2015’s ultimate hard-luck album. Not only did the making of the record see lyricist Joe Casey’s father shuffle off his mortal coil, and his mother begin a decline into Alzheimer’s, […]

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Another Year, Another Snub: Rock Hall Turns a Blind Eye to Harry Nilsson, Musicians Revolt

I think we can all agree that the Grammys are a joke, and have been for quite some time. Less-famous categories tend to maintain their integrity, but “Record of the Year” may as well be called “Whatever […]

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Wavves – ‘V’

As Wavves encounter the many opportunities to be wrung out by adulthood, they’ve managed to tweak their sound from their fuzz-bathed, MTV-and-LSD sunny punk King of the Beach days to the oh-shit-responsibility turns of Afraid of Heights (the […]

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About Karl Ernest

Karl is a Seattle-based musician and writer at SONGLYRICS; a veteran of both east and west-coast scenes, he has performed with the likes of The Ying Yang Twins, David Arquette, Wynton Marsalis, among others. But he's no stranger to seedy dives or house shows, either.