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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbFp1Q_Z8mM&feature=youtu.be After dropping the rigid, rollicking title track from their sophomore album Sunbathing Animal last month; Parquet Courts are now offering a second glimpse of the project via the considerably wilder “Black and White.” The song features the band’
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HhuCyd3nqA&feature=youtu.be “Blackened crust” has got to be high in the running for nastiest genre name. Not many bands have a high enough filth factor to rise to this descriptor’s occasion, but among the furious few is Young and in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fnSQukBE4 Slow Animal is just 2 boyz based out of Philadelphia who wanna have fun. And fun they deliver on, producing energetic, surfy kinds of punk tunes that fans of Wavves are likely to enjoy. They also have a cat, judging from this black
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Young Turks displaying the talents of recent signee Quirke with the track “Break A Mirrored Leg,” which is one of the most insane pieces of electronic music I’ve come across this month. The beat is so speedy, relentless, and hyper. The rhythms are just so punchy and detailed, yet,
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Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. comes through with lyrical fire, setting things absolutely straight with a series of bars that address the frustration of trying to appeal to a fickle mainstream audience. K.R.I.T. doesn’t seem happy to load his songs with “MOLLY” and trap-centric
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The latest single from Melted Toys starts off like your average jangle pop tune–well, as far as songs in this current jangle pop revival go–but the song actually comes through with a sweet, angular, creative melody that’s been sticking with me since first listen. Melted Toys get
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Mastodon comes through with a new single that pleases and pummels. I’m definitely digging it more than most of what I heard on the Hunter a few years ago.
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The new single from George Lewis Jr., a.k.a. Twin Shadow, is pure power ballad mimicry. You might dig it if, you know, you’re into that sorta thing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSdTBGhDSg “Oxygen” is the second single to drop from Swan’s latest epic To Be Kind (after last month’s stellar, staggeringly funky “A Little God in My Hands”), and it is among the fiercest and most thrilling moments of its two-hour-plus runtime. It
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tUnE-yArDs’ Merrill Garbus is no stranger to bombastic, twisted, cacophonous, brazen pop songs that explode out of the speakers. She is no stranger to odd flourishes that sound at first out of place and then perfectly correct. The first single from her upcoming album Nikki Nack, “Water Fountain”, fit all
