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While most of the 80s thrash metal bands that are still kicking today are sounding overproduced and sterile, VOIVOD is still sounding pretty energetic, natural, and progressive. Loving that! The song streaming above, “Mechanical Mind” comes from what’s going to be the band’s 13th studio album, Target Earth.
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UNEVEN COMPROMISE by LIL UGLY MANE Richmond rapper Lil Ugly Mane dropped a new, strange, 10-minute track on my birthday, and I didn’t even realize it. Does this make me a terrible person? Yes. Well, Mr. Thug Isolation here continues his trademark style of dark rhymes, darker sounds, gangsta-esque
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Forward-thinking electronic music producer Luke Abbott is about to release his second EP this year on Gold Panda’s Notown label. While his last one didn’t do much for me outside of a few tracks, I’m hoping this next EP will appeal to me a bit more. I
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It’s been quite the productive year for Geoff Barrow. While he hasn’t been working on the fourth Portishead album that music nerds everywhere would sell their souls to see realized, 2012 did see the release of Quakers, the debut album of his mercurial hip hop endeavor, and >
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Chronopoly by Town Portal Some mathematical and progressive instrumental metal from the band Town Portal on its latest full-length effort, Chronopoly. This album serves up one groove-heavy piece of music after another, and the recording is actually pretty heavy as well. This LP is available on opaque vinyl via Bandcamp.
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The hard, fast, abrasive, and heavy Code Orange Kids have a debut album out coming out via Deathwish Inc. on November 20th, but you can stream the entire album in full via the widget above. With plenty of massive riffs, blast beats, and a bit of guitar heroism, this band’
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Jazz experimentalist Matana Roberts drops a 10-minute solo sax piece that’s as moving as it is winding. Despite a lack of boundaries due to a lack of other instruments on the track, Roberts stays incredibly sharp and focused in her playing; not letting a single moment here pass by
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With an instrumental produced by Hostage and Kidnap Kid, here’s a video for the Lulu James track “Be Safe,” which comes from an EP she dropped earlier this year titled Rope Mirage. It’s a sweet piece of modern soul with a contemporary set of electronics backing it up.
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DIΛMOND SPECTRUM by HYDRABADD A bunch of sharp, diamond-cut bangers on this new HYDRABADD EP, DIΛMOND SPECTRUM. Give a listen to it via the widget above, and download it for whatever price you’d like on Bandcamp. Also, the 2nd instrumental on this EP was previously used on this Oddyssey
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Minneapolis rapper and Doomtree member Stefon Alexander, a.k.a. P.O.S, drops a new video for the track “Get Down,” which comes off his latest album, We Don’t Even Live Here. The album is out now on Rhymesayers.
