music review
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While the Debauchees songs and sound are admirably weird, there’s a certain stiffness in their playing that leaves me cold on a few tracks on this full-length debut.
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes third full-length album feels even rougher than last year’s Here. However, the band is going in a slightly more retro direction, embracing the sonic palate of 60s psychedelic pop. WATCH THE REVIEW
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On bad meets Evil, Eminem and Royce Da 5’9″ bring the best out in one another and start spitting fire like King Koopa on the last stage of Super Mario Brothers. These guys put their drama and hip hop superstar backgrounds behind them to send out verse after rap
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On Blood Ceremony’s second album, the Canadian band embraces a traditional style of doom metal; but they still manage to make worlds collide. With guitar riffs coming straight out of the Toni Iommi playbook and flute playing that calls out to Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, this album is
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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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On the band’s sixth album, Black Lips clean up their sound with Mark Ronson at the mixing board. And even though things are coming in cleaner and clearer, the band hasn’t lost any of their energy and attitude in the process–which is what makes Black Lips records
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Beirut has a new single out! Those who love hearing the sounds of Eastern European music filtered through an American lens can rejoice! But honestly, Zach Condon’s Beirut has put together two pretty solid full-length records, and this single has mouths–or ears, maybe–watering for a third. “East
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Come, my children! Indulge in this glorious thrash metal! Denver, Colorado isn’t exactly a mecca of thrash metal, but Havok still manages to string together some of the genre’s best characteristics into one 11-track gauntlet. This LP rarely lets up, and dishes out one hard riff after another.
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