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Here is a YouTube playlist where you can hear music from all of these EPs.
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[audio:http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/mp3/jnr107.mp3] Nothing brightens up a song like a whistle, eh? That seems to be the theory on this new track from Sleeping back, “Walk Home,” which comes from the garage rock band’s sophomore album on Joyful Noise recordings, Women Of Your Life.
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Gnawed Gristle and Bone by Venowl Despite extreme metal’s noisy nature, there’s a surprising lack of artists making it who openly embrace noise as a compositional tool. If anything, noise is simply just a by-product of making such uncompromising music. However, that’s not the case with Venowl.
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Some melodic and catchy slacker-style indie rock from California X, who is looking at a 2013 release on Don Giovianni Records. Stream the first song to drop from their self-titled album, “Pond Rot,” above.
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Here is a YouTube playlist where you can watch all of the videos mentioned in this list.
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On its sophomore album, the UK’s Dragged Into Sunlight works to diversify its grimy, blood-soaked sound, but brings less intensity in the process. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Someone’s Got It In For Me / But There Has To Be More by Lower Denmark’s Lower has a new single up on its Bandcamp, and both tracks take the post-punk outfit into some pretty heavy, dismal, and depressing territory. Both songs work at a slow pace, and feature
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Unconscious Collective by Unconscious Collective Chaotic and flashy jazz fusion from the Unconscious Collective, which actually features one of my favorite things in jazz: Vibraphone. Yeah, weird thing favor in such a genre, but whatever. What’s interesting is the drums and vibraphone on this record are played by the
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Nervously Counting Rosary Beads by Guzzlemug On their bandcamp, Chicago’s Guzzlemug promises a 29-minute epic with the piece “Nervously Counting Rosary Beads,” and they more or less deliver with a group chorus, sludgy guitar riffs, and intensely improvised freakouts! Enjoy via the widget above, and check out the band’
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Foxygen drops a strange video for the song “Shuggie,” which features an array of characters who are completely infatuated with a mysterious black box. While there’s no real explanation as to what makes the black box so damn interesting–or delicious–it does highlight the absurdity of obsessions people
