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Gearing up for its new, self-titled album via Williams Street, Brooklyn’s Cerebral Ballzy has dropped more track from the LP on SoundCloud. Look out for high volumes, grimy guitars, and blistering speeds. You might also want to ready yourself for puking, skating, and drinking. Enjoy: Anthem by cerebralballzy Sk8
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Brooklyn’s Woods has a new track out, “Find Them Empty.” This track finds the folk rock band moving towards a style that I’ve always wished they would explore more directly: The stormy psychedelic rock sounds of the 1960s. With brazen electric guitars signaling a deviation from their freak
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Recently, a lot of my video comments have been peppered with suggestions of the Men’s new album, Leave Home. These guys are a Brooklyn rock outfit with a rough, saturated sound that brings me back to some of my favorite Big Black tracks. Not only that, but the vocals
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Since my review of that Craft Spells album, I’ve been having a hankering for lo-fi, self-recorded rock and pop. So, let’s introduce the Brooklyn band Ex-Cops. Though “Broken Chinese Chairs” is pretty fun and breezy, the mood of this band can get pretty dark, too. Word ’round the
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Brooklyn’s Sensual Harassment is celebrating Christmas early this year by offering up their new album, Alpha Draconis, for download / stream on their website. If the odd cover doesn’t get you interested, maybe the prospect of listening to melancholy synth pop will. The recording is a little rough around
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This past year, the Babies released two singles. I liked one a lot, but the other didn’t do too much for me. But this was to be expected. The band’s two leading musicians, Kevin Morby and Cassie Ramone, come from two very different bands: Woods and Vivian Girls.
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This band is Radical Dads. A Brooklyn outfit with a weird name isn’t that uncommon, but the fierce rock ‘n’ roll passion laid down on this song is. The band has an album and a 7” for “Reckless” on the way, so stay tuned to their website. Dig on
