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Natalie Maines, Mother…
Still scarred from the backlash she endured for dissing George Bush 10 ye… more »
Little Boots, Nocturnes…
A lot happened very quickly for synth-pop chanteuse Little Boots: Her 200… more »
Still Corners, Strange Pleasu…
When a band makes music that is repeatedly, almost invariably, described … more »
Marcus Ryan, Walk to the Ligh…
Marcus Ryan is a songwriter from Texas who wound up traveling to New Orle… more »
Howl, Bloodlines
Doom metal is a cathartic outlet for depression and loneliness and, yeah,… more »
The Melvins, Everybody Loves …
When The Melvins put out an album of covers, a little irreverence, both i… more »
Daughter, If You Leave…
The London trio Daughter usually gets filed under folk or indie-folk, but… more »
Iggy & the Stooges, Read…
Few albums are so misleadingly titled as Ready to Die. The first release … more »
No Joy, Wait To Pleasure…
If you adhere to the strict definition of the term, you really shouldn… more »
Guards, In Guards We Trust…
Guards are positioning themselves to take up residence in the house that … more »
Vhöl, Vhöl
After breaking up their black metal band Ludicra in 2011, guitarist John … more »
Lilacs & Champagne, Dani…
Grails members Alex Hall and Emil Amos struck beat-geek paydirt in 2012 w… 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 »
Junip, Junip
Jose González, who came to renown for a muted cover of fellow Swed… 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 Flaming Lips, The Terror…
Hidden within the cheery, let’s-release-music-in-a-gummy-bear-and-r… more »
Shuggie Otis, Inspiration Inf…
It’s one of the high crimes in music industry history that no one w… 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 »
Dawes, Stories Don’t En…
Ah, the sound of Fender Telecaster singing out of a clean channeled amp: … more »
