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  • 2012

    On Mount Eerie’s latest effort, Phil Elverum managest to transform is usual sounds and emotions into a repetitive, drone-y, and sometimes ambient musical experience. Mostly, it’s beautiful, but a few moments felt a bit overlong to me. Plus, despite being well over 40 minutes, I didn’t come

  • 2012

    A short-energetic banger produced by none other than DZA, a SoundCloud producer I’ve been following for a few months now whose always drawing up some pretty interesting stuff. That’s done especially on this track, “Arabian Night,” which is loaded with too many sonic video game references to count.

  • 2012

    Stream: Savage- “Husbands” As anybody will tell you, there’s nothing I love more than the strange, moody, and dark female-fronted post-punk, and the band Savages definitely delivers that. They’ve got a new record on the way via Pop Noire Records, and this is the first track I’m

  • 2012

    Six Brew Bantha – s/t LP by To Live A Lie Records Some mosh-inducing powerviolence from the new, self-titled Six Brew Bantha album. Stream it via the Bandcamp widget above. The record is set to be released on To Live A Lie, but its physical release date doesn’t seem

  • 2012

    all we got it each other by ghost mice Indiana duo Ghost Mice recently dropped a nine-track release titled All We Got Is Each Other via member Chris Clavin’s Plan-It-X Records. It is available for purchase as either a vinyl LP or a cassette by way of the label’

  • 2012

    No Joy is an alternative rock and shoegaze outfit hailing from Montreal. “Junior” has a steady groove that continuously builds in intensity throughout without losing any momentum. The song is sung very softly and is very dreamlike in nature, this in combination with the rock styled jam the two play

  • 2012

    Stream: Sonny and the Sunsets- “I See the Void” “I See the Void” is the lead single from the forthcoming album Longtime Companion by Sonny and the Sunsets. It’ll be the band’s third full-length LP, and this song followers their “classic” style. It’s earnest, smiling, while still

  • 2012

    Pop. 1280 put out a new music video directed by Jacqueline Castel, and all the lyrical references come together like a disturbing and horrifying puzzle. Yes, my review of the band’s latest album, the Horror, acknowledged the music’s dark, gritty edge; however, I never would have figured that

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