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New York singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten tests patience with a slow burner of a new record.
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Irish-born electronic singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy has been taking a break from music since the (admittedly long) tour following her great 2007 LP Overpowered ended. It’s been a little sad for her fans (re: me) to go so many years without news of any real plans of her return. For
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Singer/songwriter/bassist Meshell Ndegeocello doesn’t get enough respect. She had some low-level visibility a few years ago when she released her first couple albums, but has since faded into a small niche where her small but ultra-devoted fanbase follows her every move. I only really got invested in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m0XfEIvVCk&list=PLhbqrlwJFLI-kvxBnWbiTYLkApEaIGbIi&index=1 After dropping with Madlib what will no doubt be a strong contender for the greatest hip hop album of the year (Piñata), Freddie Gibbs wasted no time teaming up for another noteworthy collaboration. This time, the Indiana
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stray by ikea-graveyard Alofa Gould is a 19-year-old Vista, CA-based singer-songwriter who has recorded under the moniker Your Bruise, and now under ikea-graveyard. This month, she put out a split EP with touringmates Bulldog Eyes and Yukon, as well as this collection of demos she recorded on her porch, called
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Stream here via Noisey Georgia experimental metal trio Lazer/Wulf is gearing up to release its debut album The Beast of Left and Right through Kylesa’s Retro Futurist Records. The group has offered us this glimpse of project, “Beast Reality,” which exemplifies the group’s self-professedly hard-to-define nature. Although,
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Cold Specks, the musical project of Canadian singer-songwriter Al Spx, has been slowly increasing visibility lately, most notably by contributing vocals to the new Swans album To Be Kind. Now, she is about to release her sophomore record, Neuroplasticity, and has dropped the first single in the form of “Absisto,
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Azure Ray holds a special place in my heart, so with each year that passes without a new LP from them (they remained brazenly silent in the many years between their last two full-lengths) I feel the pangs of yearning. But the ladies, Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink, have kept
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https://soundcloud.com/carparkrecords/greys-use-your-delusion Dammit! Carpark Records beat me to all the adjectives I was going to use to describe this new song from Toronto loud rock/post-hardcore band Greys. “Caustic. Brash. Noisy. Abrasive. Dissonant. Melodic. Sarcastic. Explosive.” Yep, “Use Your Delusion” is certainly all those things. So was
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https://soundcloud.com/bluenoterecords/jose-james-u-r-the-1 Modern jazz singer José James must have been eager to return to the studio after last year’s No Beginning No End, as he is already set to put out its follow-up, While You Were Sleeping, just next month. With its rushes of gleaming synth,
