Tag: Great Music While High

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October 8, 2014
10/08/2014
Great Music While High: Deafheaven

Great Music While High: Deafheaven

Deafheaven emerged a few years ago with a style so fresh, it crossed genre boundaries. As an American black metal band hailing from San Francisco, CA, they...
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October 2, 2014
10/02/2014
Great Music While High: Twenty One Pilots

Great Music While High: Twenty One Pilots

You will not enjoy this album; you will simply be compulsively forced into playing it on repeat for days on end. The inventing of genres has lead...
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September 24, 2014
09/24/2014
Great Music While High: Tim Barry

Great Music While High: Tim Barry

Tim Barry’s narrative style brings the honest nature of folk music full circle on his album Rivanna Junction. His songs explore the full range of emotions, exploring...
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September 17, 2014
09/17/2014
Great Music While High: Cherub

Great Music While High: Cherub

For me, Cherub is a more recent discovery that is guiltily drowned in satirical-pop and electro-funk. Cherubs tongue in cheek lyrics consistently inject humor regardless of the...
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September 11, 2014
09/11/2014
Great Music While High: Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Great Music While High: Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Clever incorporations of the harmonium, piano and a variety of string instruments create a foundation from which PCO whimsically twists and embellishes. The voiceless poetry is a...
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September 8, 2014
09/08/2014
Great Music While High: Run the Jewels

Great Music While High: Run the Jewels

Run the Jewels is a record that is both smooth and edgy, often within the same verse. With production that is dense without being cluttered and lyrical...
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September 4, 2014
09/04/2014
Great Music While High: Phish

Great Music While High: Phish

The hordes of fans this weekend reminded me of what makes Phish such a unique experience, because it’s really the experience of the live show that becomes...
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August 28, 2014
08/28/2014
Great Music While High: Sleep

Great Music While High: Sleep

A bellowing minute and a half guitar solo that sends you into the cosmos with a huge smile. Transitioning into the closer with such elegance that it’s...
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August 26, 2014
08/26/2014
Great Music While High: Why?

Great Music While High: Why?

The intrinsically pleasing parts of Why? are the metaphors that I never fully grasp until the last note, contradictions that make pupils dilate and bigger picture revelations....
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August 14, 2014
08/14/2014
Great Music While High: Spiritualized

Great Music While High: Spiritualized

Ladies and Gentleman We are Floating in Space is best served through eleven on the amps volume control, while in the horizontal position, with a side of...
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July 28, 2014
07/28/2014
Great Music While High: Esperanza Spalding

Great Music While High: Esperanza Spalding

Every now and then you come across a musician so powerful and dynamic that you can just sense that what you’re listening to is truly unique and...
By: Rae Lland
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June 24, 2014
06/24/2014
Great Music While High: Chance the Rapper

Great Music While High: Chance the Rapper

“Raps just make me anxious/and acid made me crazy/them squares just made me looser/and that wax just made me lazy/and I still make this song/and I’m a...
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June 17, 2014
06/17/2014
Great Music While High: Sylvan Esso

Great Music While High: Sylvan Esso

Sometimes just when you think you’ve heard it all, the Universe throws you a miraculous discovery. That was exactly what happened when I saw tUnE-yArDs last night...
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June 11, 2014
06/11/2014
Great Music While High: The Allman Brothers Band

Great Music While High: The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band is a stoner classic. I’m sure plenty of Weedists out there have spent some time gettin’ high and listening to this band. If you haven’t...
By: Rae Lland
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April 24, 2014
04/24/2014
Great Music While High: Jamie Lidell

Great Music While High: Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell’s recent self-titled album is the super coolest combination of funk, pop, soul and electronica around. I have been a fan forever, and this is my...
By: Anna Diaz
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March 27, 2014
03/27/2014
Great Music While High: Mogwai

Great Music While High: Mogwai

Mogwai makes the kind of music that almost seems designed to be listened to while high. A post-rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, Mogwai have been bringing blissful...
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March 11, 2014
03/11/2014
Great Music While High: Moon Hooch

Great Music While High: Moon Hooch

In an age where music is increasingly processed and sounds digitally created, it’s refreshing to come across music that is entirely produced by humans and still packs...
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March 4, 2014
03/04/2014
Great Music While High: Death Grips

Great Music While High: Death Grips

Some music is just meant to be cranked up. Death Grips is the kind of music that is meant to be played at full blast in your...
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February 25, 2014
02/25/2014
Great Music While High: Lindsey Stirling

Great Music While High: Lindsey Stirling

I’ve mentioned many times how listening to music is one of my favorite things to do while high. Typically, I am looking for one of two things...
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February 17, 2014
02/17/2014
Great Music While High: Man Mantis

Great Music While High: Man Mantis

My favorite music tends to be the kind in which a unique world exists within the sound. Especially when it comes to electronic music, the wide range...
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