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While the incredible brevity of this new Tony Molina record makes it a little gimmicky, the infectious melodies and breakup album concept are enough to make me overlook that most of the time. If you like your power pop rough and punk-influenced, give this a listen.
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Stream the new Black Lips album if ya know what’s good for ya! The band seems to live up to grimy and catchy expectations with this new set of tracks, which will be out officially on the 18th of this month. Enjoy!
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Inevitability by Goliad If you find yourself enjoying the pristine, banal plunderphonics of Oneohtrix Point Never as well as the woozy vocal inflection of a “sad rock” act like Porches. (or even Liars), then you might want to keep an eye on 19-year-old Bay Area musician Devlin Miski (a.k.
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The previously mentioned Frankie Cosmos drops a hilariously frank birthday song that tells it straight about these annual celebrations of existence. While it may seem like Frankie is raining on the parade, it’s sometimes good to laugh at arbitrary rituals a bit. Plus, the instrumentation is pretty endearing as
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Autumn For Crippled Children’s fourth album sees the band bringing expanded metal instrumentation into some melodic, shoegaze-savvy territory.
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Stream: Big Ups – Eighteen Hours of Static Eighteen Hours of Static, the debut LP from New York punk outfit Big Ups, is a refreshing half hour of caustic and cathartic post-hardcore. The mix here is muddy, the playing is messy, and the vocals of frontman Joe Galarraga are manic – often
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A frenetic, zany, kooky, scatter-brained, etc. track from lo-fi electronic musician Lockbox. “Brainhead” appears to be the result of a caffeine high stacked on top of a sugar rush, propelled by a constant skittering beat and loaded with countless fleeting synth textures over the course of its action-packed three-and-a-half minute
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Falsetto-fronted folk rockers Woods are gearing up to drop new full-length album on April 15th through their usual stomping grounds, Woodsist. The title of this forthcoming record: With Light and With Love. The band is teasing toward this next album with the track “Leaves Like Grass,” which is a sweet
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try not to destroy everything you love by An Autumn For Crippled Children An Autumn For Crippled Children, yes, that’s this band’s name. I’m being serious. I know, you probably don’t find the name that strange. You probably also don’t find it strange that they’
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Doomed Boys (previously Super Minotaur) is a Chicagoan collective of writers, illustrators, and musicians whose art tends to go in an alluringly scuzzy direction. This can be seen in the few drawings they’ve posted to their Facebook, as well as in these two most recent songs they’ve produced.
