MP3s & Streams
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Stream: St. Vincent- Strange Mercy NPR’s First Listen series offers a great way for fans to preview hyped albums before their release date–or before you download them. One of the latest additions to the series is Strange Mercy, the brand new LP from St. Vincent. Strange Mercy is
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MP3 For me, the word “Hull” conjures up images of Herman Melville’s 1956 epic film Moby Dick, and the wayward ship, the Pequod. This imagery rings true when listening to the Brooklyn heavy quintet Hull. The band is coming off of their 2009 debut, Sole Lord with a vengeance
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Ever since I blogged about Uzbeks two weeks ago, I’ve been listening to their LP Goggles & Flipflops pretty much nonstop. Because of that, I’m pleased to announce that the Israeli punk group has a fresh new song out, a sub-2 minute banger called “Black Magic!” This track
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Forest Fire is one of the latest bands to be signed to Fat Cat Records, a label know for releasing albums by such indie rock luminaries as Animal Collective and Sigur Ros. The Brooklyn band’s sound is more traditional than some of their labelmates, however, and comes closer to
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You were a Dick by idaho The Los Angeles-based band Idaho started out as part of the early 90s slowcore scene in California, with their 1993 debut and subsequent early LPs drawing comparisons to bands like Red House Painters, and American Music Club. While those bands either fell by the
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MP3 Lenses Alien, the new album from New Jersey’s Cymbals Eat Guitars, arrives on August 30th on Barsuk Records. Soon after, the band will kick off a lengthy tour across the United States. We’ve already heard one track from the album, a staggeringly ambitious opening track called “Rifle
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MP3 On Sept 6th via Western Vinyl, Here We Go Magic frontman Luke Temple will be dropping his third album under his own name: Don’t Act Like You Don’t Care. A lot of this material is years old–take a look at “More Than Muscle”–and was somewhat
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Back in January, Brendan Majewski of the Brooklyn-based punk metal band Orphan took his own life at the age of 37. In his honor, fellow New York City metal band Krallice have put together a new EP. Named Orphan Of Sickness, the EP features covers of three Orphan songs performed
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Despite what their name might suggest, Uzbeks are not from Uzbekistan. In fact, this five-piece garage punk outfit is actually from Israel. Their LP Goggles & Flipflops was released toward the end of last year, and features a really interesting take on classic, 70s-style punk music. It’s a humorous
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Yalls by Yalls Oakland-based producer-singer Yalls makes quirky synth pop music that sounds close to what Baths would be if he spent more time listening to old funk records. Yalls’ new, MJ MJ-released album is nineteen tracks of manipulated, cartoonified vocals dancing over squawky bass and funky synths. The album’
