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On Fucked Up’s new album, the band brings concept to the forefront for a group of songs that tell a dramatic tale of love and loss. It’s pretty, well, complicated. As “epic” as this story is, what makes it grandiose also kinda kills it for me, too. These
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Thanks to the good people at NPR Music, the new Fucked Up album is streaming front to back, which includes the LOVED track “Queen of Hearts.” The album is dropping on the 7th via Matador Records, and watch a short docu-film-piece-thing on the band over here. Here we go: “First
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Hindu Kush is a Canadian rap out fit that dropped it’s debut LP, In 3D, a few months ago. We’ve got solid flows, personalities, storytelling, and some nice boom-baps. Features include Royce Da 5’9″, The Narcicyst, and I.Blast. Stream and buy In 3D at Hindu Kush’
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Just last week, I blogged about the music of David Stephan. Nearly every day, he works tirelessly on beats before he heads off to work at a coffee shop. His tracks always end somewhere around 60 seconds, so they’ve naturally been dubbed “1-Minute Miracles.” Stephan has a few new
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The latest single from Fucked Up’s David Comes to Life is both hard-hitting and thematic. The fierce punk energy that make this Canada band’s previous work so extreme remains intact as the band pulls together a track that begins the story that opens up this forthcoming concept album.
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1-Minute Miracles is the solo project of Canadian beat sculptor David Stephan. From what he tells me, his website is kind of like his sonic journal, jotting down short beat concepts in the six or eight hours he has before he has to go to work. I’d say his
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Fucked Up is a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Ontario. The band won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for their album The Chemistry of Common Life. Their third LP, David Comes to Life–according to the Matablog–should be more melodic than the band’s prior work. The heavy female
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Tim Hecker’s latest album is a barren wasteland of forgotten sounds. It’s music you can truly wander through. Some tracks do feel a little short of breath, sadly, but there are many more standouts here than there are duds. It’s another strong piece of material in the
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Canada’s Rural Alberta Advantage will be releasing the followup to their Saddle Creek debut this March. The album is titled Departing, and the first track to drop from it is “Stamp.” Let’s listen and review: Review: The Rural Alberta Advantage- Stamp TRACK REVIEW MP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage-
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