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    HUNGER PAINS by DNF HOMESICK by DNF Featuring members of Touche Amore and Trash Talk, California powerviolence outfit DNF scratches a darker kind of itch. With throttling and heavy riffs and grindcore-style blast beats, these two tracks from the quartet’s new 7″ are an all-out assault. The vocals of

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    Stream / Download: Big Blood- Old Time Primitives Prior to Big Blood, Woods was the only band I knew of that wrote folk tunes with a style that chilled me to the bone. The band’s last album, Dark Country Magic, didn’t amaze me throughout, but the band had too

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    151a by Kishi Bashi Some colorful and uplifting baroque pop coming off the newly released Kishi Bashi album, 151a. The project is currently on tour with of Montreal and Deerhoof. Find dates and pick up the album via Bandcamp.

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    Step Right by Rave Deep As part of a free compilation that Oakland label West in Dust has just released, electronic producer RaveDeep has released a new song titled “Step Right.” The track combines 2-step rhythms with the method of pitch shifting vocal samples that artists like Burial and James

  • London-based vocalist Jessie Ware currently only has a few singles and a small handful of guest spots to her name, including one on that SBTRKT album from last year, but more from her is supposedly on the horizon for this year. In the mean time, you can hold yourself over

  • Joy and Better Days by Hip Hatchet Hip Hatchet is a country-folk project from singer songwriter Philippe Bronchtein. The tracks on this LP feature some beautifully finger-picked guitar. There’s a decent amount of diversity in instrumentation from track to track, helping to keep every song fresh. Bronchtein is a

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    Punk super group OFF! have released a new video for their track “Wiped Out,” and it aptly features many wipe outs. This song oozes with and old school skatepunk mentality, so it is only right that a lot of the clips featured here skateboard wipe outs. These are done in

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    Featuring the intense flow of Lady Leshurr, and a progressively tense beat, this new Orbital track leaves no question as to why the Kent duo has been able to maintain its place as one of the most significant duos in electronic music. The synths that are constantly revving up throughout

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    Over the course of the past couple of months, Battles have been teasing up to the release of Dross Glop, the remix album for last year’s Gloss Drop, with a steady stream of 12″ singles consisting of remixes from the album. With its April 17 release date approaching quickly,

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    Although it’s probably safe to say that sludge metal quartet Torche has been heading in a progressively more pop-inflected direction throughout the past few years, that’s not to say that they have sacrificed ambition as a result. On “Reverse Inverted,” the second track to drop from the band’