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Public Service Broadcasting, …
Bumping the idea of “retro” away from the over-mined ’6… more »
!!!, Thr!!!er
Considering all the factors working against !!! over the past 15 years … more »
Howl, Bloodlines
Doom metal is a cathartic outlet for depression and loneliness and, yeah,… more »
Colin Stetson, New History Wa…
Avant-garde saxophonist Colin Stetson’s credits as a collaborator i… more »
Hanni El Khatib, Head in the …
Tracked entirely at Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye studio in Nashville, Ha… more »
Akron/Family, Sub Verses…
A cabin on the side of an active volcano is a captivating image. There, p… more »
Daughter, If You Leave…
The London trio Daughter usually gets filed under folk or indie-folk, but… more »
Coliseum, Sister Faith…
Over the past two years, Louisville, Kentucky’s Coliseum have compl… more »
Iggy & the Stooges, Read…
Few albums are so misleadingly titled as Ready to Die. The first release … more »
Phoenix, Bankrupt!
What Phoenix does better than just about any current band is combine the … more »
Laura Stevenson, Wheel…
A question lurks in the background of Laura Stevenson’s Wheel like … more »
Charli XCX, True Romance…
Charli XCX (née Charlotte Aitchison) may have staked her initial m… more »
Ghost B.C., Infestissumam…
As soon as Ghost swarmed out of the depths of Linköping, Sweden, in … more »
Iron & Wine, Ghost on Gh…
The seven studio LPs and EPs Sam Beam has made as Iron & Wine have u… more »
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mosquito…
Ten seconds into Mosquito, during the eerie churn of “Sacrilege,… more »
The Leisure Society, Alone Ab…
Accolades from the great and the good aren’t everything, but nomina… more »
The Thermals, Desperate Groun…
On, 2010′s Personal Life, Portland trio the Thermals jettisoned the… more »
The Flaming Lips, The Terror…
Hidden within the cheery, let’s-release-music-in-a-gummy-bear-and-r… more »
Born Ruffians, Birthmarks…
Born Ruffians’ sophomore outing, 2010′s Say It, is an album o… more »
Fall Out Boy, Save Rock and R…
Eight years ago, most pop-punk bands would have swallowed their pride and… more »
Villagers, {Awayland}…
Villagers, the musical outlet for troubadour Conor O’Brien, is a fo… more »
Paramore, Paramore
“No one’s the same as they used to be,” sings Hayley Wi… more »
Milk Music, Cruise Your Illus…
On Cruise Your Illusion, the first proper full-length from Olympia, Washi… more »
Cold War Kids, Dear Miss Lone…
The Cold War Kids want respect. Over their career, they have seemingly ta… more »
