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  • Aug 3 Album Reviews

    Dying Fetus - Wrong One to Fuck With

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    Maryland trio Dying Fetus comes through with one of the best brutal death metal albums I’ve heard since their last album back in 2012.

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  • Aug 2 Album Reviews

    Vic Mensa - The Autobiography

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    Vic Mensa’s long-awaited debut album delivers its fair share of grand and thoughtful highs, but also some cringe-worthy lows.

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  • Aug 1 Album Reviews

    Aminé - Good for You

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    Portland’s own Aminé sells himself short on his mellow studio debut, Good for You.

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  • Jul 31 Album Reviews

    Arcade Fire - Everything Now

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    Everything Now finds Arcade Fire making a bolder and tighter move in a dance music direction than on Reflektor, but unfortunately it’s even more of a mixed bag.

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  • Jul 30 2017

    Best & Worst Tracks: 7/30 (Ski Mask the Slump God, Charli XCX, Converge, Macklemore, Chelsea Wolfe)

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    The weekly segment in which Anthony touches down on some of the best and worst tracks he has heard in the past week.

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  • Jul 30 2017

    Chelsea Wolfe - "Vex"

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    Here’s the second single from Chelsea Wolfe’s heavy new album Hiss Spun. “Vex” has pretty much all the qualities I liked about “16 Psyche,” but I especially love the grim, growled vocals lent by Aaron Turner this time. Hiss Spun is out September 22 through Sargent House.

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  • Jul 30 2017

    Converge - "I Can Tell You About Pain" / "Eve"

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    Converge is back with their first pieces of new music in five years! Admittedly, the lead single “I Can Tell You About Pain” kind of strikes me as the band by the numbers, but the B-side “Eve” is fucking epic and effectively expands upon some of the slow and sludgy

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  • Jul 30 2017

    The Killers - "Run for Cover"

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    The Killers have a new album on the way titled Wonderful Wonderful, and this latest single is a peppy piece of post-punk revivalism that I’m pleasantly surprised to say lives up to that title. The album drops September 22 via Island.

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  • Jul 30 2017

    Susanne Sundfør - "Mountaineers" ft. John Grant

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    Susanne Sundfør teams up with former Czars frontman John Grant on “Mountaineers,” probably her spaciest track to date – with an amazing ending to boot. It’s the second single from the Norwegian singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Music for People in Trouble, which will be released August 25 via Bella Union.

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  • Jul 29 2017

    GREAT ALBUMS: July 2017

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    A round-up of the greatest albums Anthony reviewed this past month!

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