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On this debut mini-LP from the Log.Os, this new project creates a spacey, futuristic link between soul, dowtempo, R&B, beat music, and electronica. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On a new, collaborative EP, Detroit hip hop artists Black Milk and Danny Brown team up and prove their city isn’t the only thing they have in common. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Tom Waits’ latest album, rather than showing a new side to the eccentric singer-songwriter, it somewhat of a retrospective, revisiting the numerous sounds that have made this guy so “bad” for all these years. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Texas’ Absu puts together an intense combination of black metal and thrash on its latest album, Abzu. WATCH THE REVIEW
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La Dispute’s Wildlife is a fantastic and rewarding gauntlet of emotional rock music. Even if post-hardcore isn’t in your comfort zone, this album is worth a shot. WATCH THE REVIEW
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BADBADNOTGOOD is a Canadian jazz trio, and the outfit’s latest self-release is a series of instrumental reinventions of classic hip hop beats. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Ah, the new Opeth record. Was I expecting to like this? No. Was I hoping I’d like this? Yes! A big, fat “yes,” actually. I’ve never been an Opeth fan. Their melodic and almost overproduced take on death metal–and progressive metal, generally–just doesn’t have anything
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With an almost unmeasurable poetic bitterness, Andrew Jackson Jihad are as sharp as ever on their new album, Knife Man. As usual, the music here is about the lyrics. The chord progressions are familiar copies of folk songs and punk tunes. Hell, some of the songs even sound similar to
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If you love cute rock tunes with a dismal outlook on life, Veronica Falls might be the band for you. Their latest LP is simple, immediate, and catchy. I know it’s easy to get down on something that sounds so easy to execute, but the energy and moody aesthetic
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I didn’t find Girls’ sophomore LP to be as instantaneous, well-produced, or fun as the California band’s debut, but there’s still a great set of tracks here–not to mention a load of ambition in the extra instrumentation. I totally respect the fact that these guys have
