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A track from the forthcoming Gonjasufi “mini-album,” MU.ZZ.LE. right here. The track is “Feedin’ Birds,” and the music on this one repeats as lost vocals wander aimlessly through a psychedelic lo-fi recording. I feel like this song has a style similar to Sufi’s previous LP, A Sufi
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Here we are premiering the new Ryan Winsor-directed music video for Mood Rings’ “Promise Me Eternity.” The 7″ for this song is out now on Double Phantom. In this video, the sunny and lucid feel of Mood Rings’ music is a huge strength. The main character here seems to be
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The Spits’ latest self-titled release continues to slowly develop the band’s distorted, grimy take on the art of punk rock. WATCH THE REIVEW
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A new track from New Haven, Connecticut’s own the Mountain Mover’s. It’s to be released via 7″ this year along with two other tracks on the Car Crash Avoiders label. Two more 7″s will follow in 2012 on the same label. The music pulled together in
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Abhorrent Evolution | EP 2011 by Oblivionized The debut EP from the UK’s Oblivionized is now getting a North American release thanks to the people at Comatose Music. You guys know I love death metal, but usually the technical side of the genre doesn’t do too much for me.
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No Becoming by Lee Noble Some dark, lo-fi ambient tunes suggested to me on Facebook by a follower. At first, it seemed like just another suggestion, but the material on this March-released album is pretty eerie. The dude certainly does a lot with a little. Some really nice textures on
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At the Wörthersee Hotel by The Uptights There’s nothing that kills an idea faster than a mindlessly copied trend. I think the idea of “lo-fi bands” qualify. Still, despite the grimy, rough recordings being spoiled for me a bit, I find this latest album from the Uptights kind of
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“Wastoid Girl” is my favorite track on JEFF the Brotherhood’s new album We Are The Champions, so when I found out that the band had made a video for it, I was pretty psyched. When I found out that the video featured the band’s two members driving around
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CINCINNATTI by Literature OK, so here’s how I found out about this band: Not a bad introduction at all to this group: Literature. These guys are messy. Yeah, the three tracks on this single are pretty rough around the edges, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In
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MP3 Chrome Sparks is the solo effort of Ann Arbor twentysomething Jeremy Malvin. The Midwest music student sounds like he self-records, which is nothing new in 2011, but what’s refreshing here is this guy’s straightforward sound. The music isn’t hidden behind effects and off mixing, and it’
