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Is there anything more satisfying than a broken heart story as told via the anguished yowl of a rock song? If you’re on the fence, Hundred Visions will
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Knee-deep in producer Francis Falceto’s stellar Ethiopiques series, I was moved to catch The Budos Band live a few years ago, when they were serving up funked-up, instrumental
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The music of Xylouris White defies simple categorization. Is this world music? Indie rock? Jazz? The duo comprises heroes of two contrasting musical worlds. From the Greek island
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Like a swingin’ 1960’s rave-up on amphetamines – OK, make that MORE amphetamines – “Petals,” the latest track by the UK’s The Primitives, kicks into high gear from
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On Our Love, Dan Snaith and company return with the warm, detailed electronica/pop hybrid that listeners have come to expect from Caribou (formerly Manitoba). And just as he’s done on all of his preceding
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What’s up with the stomping? I know that’s what my downstairs neighbors are wondering after the steady 7 minutes of foot-on-floor bomp-bomp going on above them. No, I
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If there were an award for “least-used descriptive phrase in rock writing,” I’d wager that “Danish quartet” is somewhere close to being on the final ballot. Let’s face
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Here’s some lovely stoner/psychedelia from Los Angeles foursome Talk In Tongues. They’re working similar terrain as the Tame Impala & Pond cabal does, with nice big drums and
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The Juan MacLean has been around for nearly a decade, yet partners John MacLean and Nancy Whang manage to create music that feels altogether now whenever it comes out. John
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One of the UK’s most celebrated producer-DJs, Jon Hopkins elaborates one dimension of his idiosyncratic techno aesthetic on a new EP of ambient music. “Asleep Versions” dematerializes the
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