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No Better No Worse (Vol 1) by Graham Lambkin Just a month following the sad but deliberate closure of Graham Lambkin’s Kye record label, the sound and visual artist has embraced digital distribution by joining Bandcamp. His five, long out of print solo albums are now on the platform,
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Here’s the second single from Mark Kozelek’s upcoming collaborative album with Ben Boye and Jim White, which will apparently contain the Koz’s sixth and seventh discs of 2017. Lyrically, “The Black Butterfly” is a step up from the previously released “House Cat,” with Mark spending the first
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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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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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When Mark Kozelek arrives, baby, he arrives.
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After all these years, Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica still stands as one of rock’s most challenging and boundary-pushing albums.
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Jesu and Sun Kil Moon’s contribution to the 30 Days, 40 Songs campaign is a progressive synth piece that contains a bit of political and technological commentary, but mostly focuses on Mark’s recent experience tributing Lou Reed. The song will presumably appear on the duo’s sophomore record
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds return with one of the most despondent albums in their discography.
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Brownsville’s own Ka does it again with a tragic set of the most chilling hip hop songs you’ll hear this year. Bars abound!
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Dean Blunt’s Babyfather delivers an abstract, conceptual hip hop album that explores the struggle of a fictional UK DJ.
