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  • Cold Cave pulls together a dark, moody, synth-driven post-punk ambiance on this new track, “A Little Death To Laugh.” You can read a bit ab out the band’s new lineup here, and expect a new album on the way next year.

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    Extreme metal outfit Anaal Nathrakh has a new album coming out next month via Candlelight Records, and “Of Fire, and Fucking Pigs” is an ear canal-hammering track from it. The title: Vanitas. AN’s blend of black metal and grindcore is inspiringly potent. Not to say the music is uplifting,

  • 2012

    Kendrick Lamar drops a new track about facing the challenges of peer pressure. Like many tracks from last year’s Section.80, Kendrick doesn’t preach so much as he does illustrate the dangers of giving into the dark side and going against your gut. Kendrick’s new album, good

  • 2012

    Chris Cohen hits the nail on the head with an odd, breezy little pop rock number titled “Caller No.99.” It’s got a funny little guitar lead I’m sure most listeners will compare to the likes of Ariel Pink right away, and let it be known that influence

  • 2012

    Ormonde is the pairing of singer-songwriters Lotte Kestner and Robert Gomez. Both have their share of solo material, but I’ll admit this is the first time I’m hearing either of them–to my knowledge, anyway. The duo’s new album is titled Machine, which I’m a bit

  • 2012

    Streaming below are two new, unreleased dance tracks from Spanish DJ John Talabot. If you remember, the dude had a stellar February release titled fin. As the discrepancy in cover art suggests, the outtake sessions will be released on their very own 7” that will be sold exclusively through his

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    Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin (a.k.a. Oneohtrix Point Never) have come together in what may be the most promising electronic collaboration of the latter year. Their forthcoming LP titled Instrumental Tourist is to be expected on November 20th as a part of Software record’s SSTUDIO series. An

  • 2012

    Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, The Fresh & Onlys. These names stand out as leaders of the garage rock resurgence of the past couple years and while garage rock certainly never died out, these acts are often cited for bringing the raucous and ferocious sounds of the garage back into

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    Cerce by Cerce Following May’s promising Tour Sampler CD-R, Boston-based hardcore punk group Cerce have released an eponymous, six-track EP. Stream the release above by way of the band’s Bandcamp. Cerce finds the band developing the visceral, to-the-point sound of the aforementioned tour sampler, as well as the

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    Split 10” Plebeian Grandstand/Cortez by Cortez Combining elements of post-hardcore and sludge metal, the bands Plebian Grandstand and Cortez basically challenge one another in a minute-for-minute battle of dissonance and volume on this new split 10″. Each band delivers its own 12-minute song on this thing, and each of