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Death Grips’ first mixtape is a grim look at mankind’s worst personality traits:: greed, addiction, anger. And the beats are just as offensive as the screamed rap vocals–which only helps get the point across. It’s an energetic record. It’s an intense record. Sometimes it’s over
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New track from the forthcoming Fucked Up album, David Comes to Life. If you recall, “The Other Shoe” dropped a little while back, which was surprisingly melodic. But on this new joint, “Ship of Fools,” the band is sounding a lot harder. There is a nice psychedelic guitar solo interlude,
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Done Right Discount Flooring by Joyce Manor Some hard-hitting drums and burning guitars are just what the doctor ordered today. These guys seem to be straight outta Long Beach, and their latest album, Constant Headache, is available on a name-your-price basis on Bandcamp.
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Wormrot’s brand of grindcore will probably strike most people as being old school. Their dedication to thrash metal riffs and a natural-sounding production style calls back to the genre’s salad days in the 80s. But not everything here is from the past. The band’s intensity and speedy
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The Vaccines don’t have the most original of styles or tunes, but they know a catchy hook when they hear one. What Did You Expect From the Vaccines? is a record that functions on those basic principles of a catchy rock album: energy, straightforwardness, volume. With influences ranging from
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I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails pointing my ears toward Death Grips. There’s talk around the blog-o-sphere about who is involved with this project and how. Names like Zach Hill keep coming up, too, which doesn’t surprise me since some of the production moves on this
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New video for the Two Wounded Birds joint “All We Wanna Do.” From the moment I heard these guys, I dug their embrace of a surf rock sound. They’re still staying true to the sand and the sea, but they’re coming out of their shell a lot more,
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Fucked Up is a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Ontario. The band won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for their album The Chemistry of Common Life. Their third LP, David Comes to Life–according to the Matablog–should be more melodic than the band’s prior work. The heavy female
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I know I wasn’t the biggest fan of No Age’s latest album, but I really do like this live session video the band put together with P4K for “Fever Dreaming.” It’s got a nice, raw, in-the-moment feel to it. It’s awesome to know the buys can
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The latest single from Brooklyn outfit Radical Dads, “Recklessness,” is dropping this week. Download / stream the fuzzy, garage rock goodness below, and hit up radicaldads.com for a physical copy. MP3: Radical Dads- Recklessness –
