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  • ambient

    Glacial Glow by Noveller Coming down from her noisiest and most overwhelming peak yes with 2009’s Red Rainbows, New York sound sculptor Sarah Lipstate–a.k.a. Noveller–has landed in some very ambient territory on her latest album, Glacial Glow. The softer drones on this LP are something

  • afrobeat

    <a href=”http://mentalgroove.bandcamp.com/album/imperial-tiger-orchestra-mercato” _mce_href=”http://mentalgroove.bandcamp.com/album/imperial-tiger-orchestra-mercato”>IMPERIAL TIGER ORCHESTRA – Mercato by Mental Groove</a> Switzerland’s Imperial Tiger Orchestra has just dropped its debut full-length, Mercato, and the world couldn’t be in more need of

  • album

    Via AOL Spinner, the Cool Kids‘ new album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, is streaming like a fresh water, uh, stream! It’ll be available exclusively through iTunes tomorrow. Listen to all eleven tracks by clicking right over here.

  • black up

    Last month, the abstract rhymes and trippy beats on Shabazz Palaces’ new album, Black Up, convinced me it was one of the most interesting hip hop LPs I’ve heard this year. So interesting, in fact, that I threw it on my favorites of 2011 so far list without much

  • Sleeping Bag by Sleeping Bag Despite a somewhat sloppy presentation, the songwriting and melodies behind Sleeping Bag’s debut LP are sturdy enough to withstand hurricane-force winds. On “Slime,” the drums set a steady pace against a deadpan vocal and downstroke’d guitar. The verses sound almost sleepy, but the

  • 50's

    50’s by House of Wolves When I was first introduced to House of Wolves, I was confused. According to his facebook page, House of Wolves is a solo project of Rey Villalobos, a singer-songwriter from California. Although he’s a man, I could have sworn that the vocals I

  • album

    Though the Horrors’ new album Skying doesn’t officially come out until July 11th, the British indie rock band has followed the established trend of internet streaming and and made the LP available to hear in advance. Skying is streaming in its entirety at the band’s website, which has

  • I heard about Toxic Holocuast’s new LP, Conjure and Command, from one of my most trusted sources on all that is metal: JGC Sound. If it wasn’t an easy guess from the album cover and band name, this is a thrash metal album. And it’s nice to

  • beats

    If you watch my YouTube channel often, you know post-hardcore isn’t exactly one of the genre’s I cover. However, it’s not for a lack of love of this style. The thing is my heart lies in the slightly distant past. Not with the La Disputes and Poison

  • helium

    After announcing its existence and playing SXSW, Wild Flag is finally gearing up to release a debut full-length. The band is kind of like a fem-rock Voltron, built of members from various indie rock bands of note: Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weis of Sleater-Kinney, Mary Timony of Helium, and Rebecca