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Featuring synth funk powerhouse Dâm-Funk, self-recording eccentric Ariel Pink has dropped a new song with his band, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. The track comes from the band’s next album, which will be titled Mature Themes. It’s slated for an August 21st release, and I’m liking what
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As part of a compilation that independent record label SOUNGS has just released, Hubble, solo guitarist Ben Greenberg of Pygmy Shrews and Zs, and Patrick Breiner, a Connecticut resident who triples as a saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer, have teamed up for a mind-bending new collaboration. Titled “Hubble Chase,” the song
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Legendary proto-punk, art rocker, and musical eccentric Patti Smith has a new album out this week titled Banga, which is actually somewhat of a nonsensical tribute to a fictional dog who waited 2000 years on the edge of Heaven for his master who had ventured in to speak with Jesus
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A wonderfully eccentric music video from Body Parts for the track “Doing Things,” which comes from the band’s 2011 album, On Purpose. Listen here. Ups to director Mike Karnell. It’s an engaging watch from beginning to end.
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Some atmospheric and spacious acid house coming through on this new Recondite track, “Tie In.” It’s a song from the German producer’s latest album, On Acid, which takes a somewhat fresh and subversive approach to producing acid house. While “Tie In” does contain the genre’s trademarks–repetitive
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Micachu & The Shapes drop a new track from the experimental music outfit’s forthcoming album, Never. The song “OK” features vocals and a weird, winding synth melody that feel like they could have come from the heyday of psychedelic pop in the 60s; however, there’s a modern noisiness
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A track from the new pay-whatever-you’d-like-to-own Iguanadon album, Thunder Village. It’s titled “Dream Melter,” and what really grabbed by attention about the track is how its beat is edited with some abrupt stutters from time to time. The tempo even fluctuates a bit, adding some interesting detail. The
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It isn’t particularly easy to categorize the music of alt-J, a quartet that has origins in Leeds, England. I could apply a phrase like “indie rock,” but the band’s combination of folk-indebted guitar work, expansive instrumentation, and lead singer Joe Newman’s distinctive vocal delivery, makes such a
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While hip hop artist El-P is still progressing his craft as a producer on his latest studio album, some of his hooks and more conceptual tracks just aren’t sitting well with me. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Rapper, singer, and hip hop eccentric Open Mike Eagle has a new album on the way titled 4NML HSPTL. Look for it on June 26th via Fake Four Records. Right now, I can say without question that Open Mike is one of the most clever MCs out there right now.
