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Deerhoof makes its mark on the Adult Swim Singles Program with “Your Dystopic Creation Doesn’t Fear You.” Probably one of the wordier titles in the series, and it features a gritty opening verse from “My Vag” rapper Awkwafina, who fits the band’s angular riffing remarkably well. The track
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A very belated review of the latest Pissed Jeans album, which offers a funny and noisy commentary on love in the present-day.
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7 years after the underwhelming Forgiveness Rock, Toronto indie rock collective Broken Social Scene is back with a pretty exhilarating and harmonious return to form.
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Algiers blow the sophomore slump out of the water with The Underside of Power, a more intense and versatile album than the band’s self-titled debut.
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Murder of the Universe might be King Gizzard’s most musically and conceptually ambitious project to date, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.
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Queens of the Stone Age’s previous album, …Like Clockwork, was one of the best rock albums the year it came out, and arguably the band’s most downbeat and sobering release to date. But things are slated to take a poppy turn with the Mark Ronson-produced Villains, coming out
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Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters applies the politically charged spirit of his past work to the political landscape of today on his latest release.
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In lieu of a mere single, here is the entire second chapter of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard‘s three-chapter concept album Murder of the Universe. This will be the psych rock experimentalists’ second album of 2017, following the great Flying Microtonal Banana, and the ‘gimmick’ this time around
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The 20th anniversary reissue of Radiohead’s seminal album OK Computer is coming out later this month, containing of course a remastered version of the album, as well as a bonus disc of b-sides and previously unreleased material. The long passed-over “I Promise” is one of the three unreleased tracks
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Guerilla Toss continues in the direction of catchy and jerky dance-punk with “The String Game,” the lead single from their new album GT ULTRA. This’ll be the band’s second full-length release on DFA Records, with a June 23 street date. The track’s quasi-lyric video is pretty cool,
