Creating a good song is difficult. It's a feat that can sometimes be taken for granted because there are so many of them. From writing impactful lyrics to laying down Continue Reading
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The Swedish indie band Hater have been intermittently blessing us with new singles over the past few years, including 2019’s “Four Tries Down” and “It’s A Mess,” 2020’s “Sift” and Continue Reading
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Katie Dey, the experimental bedroom-pop mastermind from Melbourne, has kept busy since the 2020 release of her great album mydata. She’s teamed up with Black Dresses’ Devi McCallion on the Continue Reading
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Later this year, the gruff and grizzled Gainesville punk veterans Hot Water Music will follow their 2017 album Light It Up with a new LP called Feel The Void. For Continue Reading
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Over the last several years, the Belfast quartet Junk Drawer have drummed up a bit of buzz overseas. Their official debut, 2020’s Ready For The House, earned them a bunch Continue Reading
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In December, Girlpool returned with a new song called “Faultline.” (It ranked amongst our favorites that week.) That was just the first taste of a whole new Girlpool album. It’s Continue Reading
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In November, Boris announced they’d be following their 2020 release NO with a companion album called W, their first for Sacred Bones. So far we’ve heard “Drowning By Numbers,” before Continue Reading
26 It's never too late or too early for a rapper to chase their dreams. Hip-hop has always been driven by the youth, and over the last few years, within the genre Continue Reading
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Two years ago, the hyped-up alt-pop scion King Princess released their debut album Cheap Queen. Since then, they’ve been working on their follow-up album with their label boss Mark Ronson, Continue Reading
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Pavement are embarking on a North American reunion tour this fall, but before that the band will finally release the much-anticipated deluxe reissue of their final album, 1999’s Terror Twilight. Continue Reading
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Yard Act were originally supposed to release their debut album The Overload today. It’s now been pushed to later this month, but the Leeds post-punk band are still giving us Continue Reading
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On this particular album-release Friday, the big news is the Weeknd’s new LP Dawn FM, which absolutely bangs. But Dawn FM isn’t the only new high-profile album today that delivers. Continue Reading
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In a couple of weeks, folk singer/songwriter Jake Xerxes Fussell will release new LP Good And Green Again. We’ve gotten a few tastes of it via singles like “Love Farewell,” Continue Reading
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Last November, former Cocteau Twins guitarist and co-founder Robin Guthrie released the album Pearldiving, plus the Riviera and Mockingbird Love EPs. Now, in honor of this 60th birthday, the prolific Continue Reading
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Earlier this year, Matt Cutler returned with Always Inside Your Head, his first full-length as Lone in almost five years. Before the year’s out, Cutler’s back with one more track: Continue Reading
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Dropper is a Brooklyn-based rock band led by Andrea Scanniello. She wrote the group’s debut album Don’t Talk To Me while working behind the counter at a bowling alley — Continue Reading
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American urban artist aku raises the bar with a new single titled “ I Don’t Have a Gun.” After the widely acclaimed track “rose gold in paris town,” “I Don’t Continue Reading
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In February of 2020, just as the world was preparing to go to shit, Best Coast released Always Tomorrow, their first proper album since 2015. Shitty timing! But now that Continue Reading
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Early next year, the Indiana heavy space-rock greats Cloakroom will return with Dissolution Wave, their first album in five years. As explained when they released lead single “A Force At Continue Reading
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Earlier this year, the great New York screamo trio Closer returned with their long-awaited sophomore album Within One Stem, and it fucking ruled. Earlier this week, we named Within One Continue Reading
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