2012
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Majeure, a.k.a. Pittsburgh artist and one half of synthesizer-worshiping rock band Zombi, has a new album on the way. Going by the name Solar Maximum, the record is looking at an October 16 release date via Temporary Residence. Check out the sprawling, eleven-and-a-half minute long title cut above.
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In a way, Death Grips’ earth-shattering the Money Store from earlier this year was most notably a representation of the contributions of Andy Morin, a.k.a. Flatlander, to the project. Of course, vocalist Stefan Burnett and percussionist Zach Hill were most certainly providing quite a bit of weight themselves,
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Cumbia supergroup Ondatrópica puts over forty musicians to work on what might be the most essential Latin music record of 2012. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On their fourth album, New York black metal outfit delivers roughly the same sound they’ve been working with for the previous three. However, despite the lack of shockingly new ideas, the band proves to hold a lot of compositional power in the methodically fine-tuned progressive black metal style they’
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A track from the forthcoming OL EP titled Body Varial. “Combination” spans four minutes, and it features a pretty nice combination of footwork rhythms and juke vocal samples–speaking of the sample, it’s clearly Raekwon on Wu-Tang’s “C.R.E.A.M.” The synths throughout this thing have
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Visuals for the Capital STEEZ track, “Free the Robots,” which is probably the most politically charged track off of his latest mixtape, AmeriKKKan Korruption. Keep track of him and the rest of his Progressive Era crew right here. Also, have you heard this Joey Bada$$ tape?
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Adventures 7" by Adventures Pittsburgh’s Adventures dropped a new 7″ this month, which features some pretty impassioned vocals and dramatic chord progressions.
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Detroit rapper Danny Brown scales back the raunch for this new single, which is teasing toward the dude’s next album, Danny Johnson. Apparently Blu and Mainframe are handling the production on the LP, and you’ll be able to find it eventually on New World Color. About the song:
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke drops a new track from his Atoms For Peace project. Originally, it seemed to be an assembly of musicians used to play live renditions of material from 2009’s the Eraser. Now, with a full-length album on the way, Atoms For Peace is becoming so much
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Experimental hip hop outfit Death Grips closes out the 2012 edition of Adult Swims summer singles series with a track named after the trio’s Twitter handle. WATCH THE REVIEW
