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Sterilizer by Sterilizer Ready yourself for some of the most crushing, distorted industrial metal you’ll hear this year! It comes from a one-man project by the name of Sterilizer, and this new self-titled album has some fantastically visceral riffs and drum beats all over it–even the instrumental tracks
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Previously mentioned Boston art rockers Bent Knee will be dropping their latest record on the 11th, and we’re exclusively streaming until then on the site. We’ll be taking this down on November 12th, so give this thing a listen while you can, y’all.
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Stream / Download: Child Abuse – “Straight Out Of Compton” As is the case with most avant-garde, noisy, progressive rock bands, you either get it or you don’t. Child Abuse leaves many who stumble upon the name wondering what on earth they could sound like, and I’m sure most check
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Liars released their single “I’m No Gold” on November 4th, a song that was originally featured on their innovative LP from March titled Mess. The single will be accompanied by 2 b-sides and 3 remixes as well. Mess’s dark, electronic, and extremely heavy dance jams turned more than
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https://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/the-dodos-competition-2/s-WHF19#t=0:00 Indie-rock duo The Dodos have had a nice little trajectory, breaking through with their second record, Visiter, and following that up with nicely produced variations on their themes, with slightly hit-or-miss results: 2009’s Time to Die was a little forgettable,
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OH MY GOD! STOP BEING SO MEAN TO ALL THOSE CARS! HEY, YOU! HEY! QUIT IT! NO, DON’T SMASH ‘EM! NOOOOO! WHYY? C’MON, MAN! QUIT IT! Deerhoof‘s latest album is titled La Isla Bonita, and it just dropped via Polyvinyl Records.
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I travel down memory lane a little bit with a Slipknot review.
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Foxygen does a complete 180 on their new record, saying goodbye to the clean production on their last album, and heading into lo-fi territory. However, they throw out any semblance of good songwriting in the process.
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Godflesh hits the reset button and gets back to their roots on their first album in over a decade.
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New York’s Parquet Courts–or Parkay Quarts as it is stylized here–have a somewhat spotty past with me. While I really dug 2012’s Light Up Gold, I felt left out in the cold on their last record, Sunbathing Animal. But because I’m a fan of Andrew
