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Stream / Download: The Intelligence- “Techno Tuesday” San Franciscan group the Intelligence play garage rock, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t know how to tone things down. With its first half driven largely by a lightly strummed acoustic guitar, “Techno Tuesday,” the second track to drop from the
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Legendary proto-punk, art rocker, and musical eccentric Patti Smith has a new album out this week titled Banga, which is actually somewhat of a nonsensical tribute to a fictional dog who waited 2000 years on the edge of Heaven for his master who had ventured in to speak with Jesus
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I was hoping for a Grizzly Bear album this year, and it seems like I’m gonna get it. After a handful of solo projects since the release of the band’s 2009 album, Veckatimest, the band is back with a new single titled “Sleeping Ute.” I’m actually very
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On the band’s sophomore LP, Japandroids do a great job of eliciting very righteous, life-defining emotions, but don’t really surround them with anything that’s terribly engaging, musically. WATCH THE REVIEW
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New york punk trio Poor Lily has a new EP out titled Three Songs, and, yeah, it’s three songs long. There was a short run of physical copies, but the tracks are now available digitally through the band’s site. Currently, Lily is aiming for a summer release for
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On the band’s sophomore album, Black Breath combines various strains of punk and metal for one of the most abrasive headbanging experiences of 2012. WATCH THE REVIEW
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It isn’t particularly easy to categorize the music of alt-J, a quartet that has origins in Leeds, England. I could apply a phrase like “indie rock,” but the band’s combination of folk-indebted guitar work, expansive instrumentation, and lead singer Joe Newman’s distinctive vocal delivery, makes such a
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On this track from the forthcoming Foxygen EP, the bi-costal singer-songwriter duo evokes numerous sounds from rock ‘n’ roll’s greatest icons, but still manages to lay a fun, eccentric spin on it all. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Take The Kids Off Broadway (Jagjaguwar) by Foxygen If you’ve been keeping up with my videos, then you know how much I’ve fallen for this new, up-and-coming singer-songwriter duo known as Foxygen. They’ve got a new EP titled Take the Kids Off Broadway coming this July on
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Up-and-coming Boston punk outfit Cerce brings together an impressive blend of extreme music styles on this CD-R-printed collection of tracks. WATCH THE REVIEW