new music Archive
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If you’ve read this far, chances are you already know who Angel Olsen is: the belle of the ball at the indie roots-rock hootenanny. What you really need
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feelings
I still remember exactly where I was when I first heard Aaliyah: stuck in gridlock on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley, flipping through Los Angeles
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Incognito at the country fair, a surreptitious romance is revealed to its participants in the new video from the Weather Station, the folk-rock persona of Tamara Lindeman. Intimate
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The days are getting shorter, the leaves are falling, the amplifiers are cranking to 11… It’s ROCKTOBER, everybody! To commemorate this merry month of rock, here’s a round-up
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Here, then, is how Protomartyr makes utterly unique music today from a guitar-bass-drum format. A crazed, mechanical rhythm beats out like a possessed 3-D printer, ushering in tense,
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If Sound It Out could adopt a “house band,” I’m pretty sure we’d choose WAND. We’ve been writing about these psychedelic warriors since… huh, did they really release
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Flesh World provide the answer to a question that, honest to god, I ask from time to time: Can I get 80s goth-punk supergroup Lords of the New
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The cinematic EZ listening music of Midnight Sister presents a sound that we may have heard before, but which teases and pleases the ear nonetheless. Through their deceptively
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Finally, pop music that rises to the call of our extraordinary global moment. On “Holiday Destination,” Nadine Shah decries the migrant crisis on Europe’s Mediterranean shores and the
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album review
Here to put a calligraphed exclamation point on our surreal political present, Britain’s Ghostpoet releases a new album this week. Dark Days + Canapés finds Obaro Ejimiwe —
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