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Stream: Mikal Cronin – MCII Mikal Cronin is bringing out the first truly summer ready album of the year. All of the songs embrace a brand of pop rock that will get your body moving and ready for the sun. Cronin clearly knows what he is doing with these songs as
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Stream: Savages – Silence Yourself Raw, dark, and visceral, the new Savages record is up and streaming on the band’s website for all to hear. Away! Away with you! Click that sweet link! The UK post-punk outfit’s full-length debut will be dropping on Matador Records on the 7th of
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Setting Fire To The Western Hemisphere by Confine UK grindcore outfit Confine, which features Oblivionized member Zac Broughton, has a new EP out, and you can stream it via the widget above. It’s fast, brutal, grimy, hard-hitting, and doesn’t let up for a single moment. Enjoy!
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Deerhunter’s latest effort sees the band going down a noise-infused garage rock route, stripping their songs down to the barest of essentials. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Danish post-punk band Lower has dropped a new track in promotion of some North American tour dates that they have pasted onto the cover art for this song. Observe: “Another Life” features some intensely busy drums, noisy guitars, and some really bitter vocals. The end result is enough to have
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Two New Hampshire bands with equal amounts of passion for vintage psychedelic rock and pop come together for a new 10″ split that’s getting released this month on Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records. Grab a copy here, and stream two tracks from the 10″ above. Enjoy!
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The Dillinger Escape plan drops yet another track from their forthcoming album, One of Us Is the Killer, which will be dropping in May on Sumerian Records, and they’ve attached some visuals to it as well. All gore, partial nudity, and disembodied limbs aside, what the band has done
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Mac DeMarco covers Weezer Jangle pop prince Mac DeMarco drops a smile-inducing performance of Weezer’s “Undone” thanks to the good people at The Onion‘s A.V. Club. DeMarco and his band don’t seem to ache over recreating every detail in the song perfectly. Instead, to go for
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Unfortunately, the latest Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is one of those instances when the album’s lead single seems to be the best track, dwarfing nearly every other song on the album with ambition, glitz, and great songwriting. The rest of the album is a bit spotty, in my opinion.
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On his latest full-length, Philly singer-songwriter Kurt Vile shows more ambition through his approach to psychedelic folk with longer songs, detailed instrumentation, and sublime production. WATCH THE REVIEW