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  • 2014

    Idiosyncratic indie rock band Deerhoof drops yet another cut from their forthcoming album, La Isla Bonita, and the track features one of the most nasty, dizzying, and dissonant guitar leads to ever make it into one of their songs–and that’s saying something. Look for La Isla Bonita on

  • Cali rapper Hopsin has a tight flow and rhymes that don’t mince words. While I like the more hard-hitting tracks on this new LP of his, there just aren’t enough of them to balance out the sickening melodrama that happens on a great deal of this new LP’

  • 7

    Little Metal Baby Fist by The Dirty Nil The Dirty Nil is bringing out some grungy garage rock that is hitting me in all the right ways. These three tracks, which can be bought in the form of a 7′, desire to be played louder than speakers could ever dream

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    El-P drops a new track from his forthcoming album Cancer For Cure, featuring verses from Killer Mike and Despot. I love the song concept, too. To me, it seems to poke fun at the ongoing race in hip hop to come off tougher than the next guy. C’mon, guys.

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    II by Nude Beach Brooklyn-based Nude Beach are bringing back some old school rock ‘n’ roll with their new 10-track LP, II, which is available on Bandcamp. The vintage power pop sounds on this album are delivered with a bit of a punk spirit–much in the same way a

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    Stream: Elvis Depressedly- “Waves of Bad Intention” Mat Cothran–a singer-songwriter known mostly for his work under the name Coma Cinema–has recently been pushing a side project of his, Depressedly. Under the Depressedly name, Mat has released a new track. This project’s past releases are very similar to