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Though Bring Me The Horizon comes off as being more ambitious than your average metalcore act out there today, too many of their songs are still bogged down in average riffing and melodramatic lyrics that are really too vague for the listener to draw any specific emotional connections. WATCH THE
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Energetic and to-the-point rock music from Bromheads on their new full-length, Choro. The tracks on this LP have a rough, garage-influenced sound to ’em; however, Bromheads make up for their lack of cleanliness with sharp hooks and nutty vocals. Enjoy!
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Deerhunter drops a surprisingly lo-fi single with the track “Monomania,” which is also the title of the band’s next album. The LP is set to drop on May 6th via 4AD. After releasing the well-recorded and colorfully produced Halcyon Digest in 2010, it’ll be interesting to see if
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On their third full-length album, the Mary Onettes don’t make much of any significant changes to their sound, but they do deliver some really sharp, catchy jangle pop tunes. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Wavves really loves Nirvana’s Nevermind. I have no doubt about that after listening to this record. Yeah. WATCH THE REVIEW
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!!! drops another set of infectious dance beats and funky, synth-led grooves on the track “One Girl/One Boy.” It’s from the band’s forthcoming LP, THR!!!ER. The album is dropping via Warp at the end of April. Enjoy! Check out the previously released “SLYD” here.
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The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs video is an awesomely emotional experience, filled with dirty secrets, hypocrisy, and murder. Kudos to Megaforce for the direction on this thing, and look out for the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, Mosquito, which is dropping in the middle of April. Enjoy!
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Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Ty Segall collaborator Mikal Cronin drops a new track from this forthcoming album MCII, which is dropping in May via Merge Records. It’s a sweet, sentimental tune that’ll relentlessly tug as those heart strings.
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Justin Timberlake continues to show more ambition than the average pop artist with song lengths and structures, but longer tracks hardly make up for thin production and even thinner lyrics. WATCH THE REVIEW
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A bunch of quick, cursory reviews of some songs and albums I wanted to touch down on, featuring a slew of different artists. WATCH THE REVIEWS