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FACS, “Still Life in Decay”

The Chicago noise-rock group’s fifth LP demonstrates that they’ve come a long way in understanding how to effectively use experimentation and space.

April 07, 2023
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Braid, “Frame & Canvas” [25th Anniversary Edition]

Reminding us of the critical role the LP played in the rise of emo, this remastered version is much shinier than the one Braid quickly recorded in five days in 1998.

April 06, 2023
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Tribulation, “Hamartia”

On their new EP, the Swedish collective are embracing their true identity as a death-metal band that, under the corpse paint, is really a hard-rock outfit at heart.

April 05, 2023
Godflesh Light Up Again with New Song “Nero,” Set US Tour Dates

The influential industrial metal band recently announced their first new record in six years, with Purge landing June 9.

April 04, 2023
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The Who, “The Who with Orchestra Live at Wembley”

This recording of the Mod rockers’ 2019 London show is loaded with songs originally intended to be heard as full-bodied masterpieces.

March 31, 2023
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Deerhoof, “Miracle-Level”

With 19 past full-lengths, their first studio recording with an outside producer proves, once again, that nothing can contain the noise-pop group’s sound and vision.

March 30, 2023
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Purling Hiss, “Drag on Girard”

Mike Polizze’s garage rock outfit leans further into the Dinosaur Jr. comparisons than ever before on their first record in over six years.

March 27, 2023
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Liturgy, “93696”

On her expansive and massively ambitious new album, Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix finds new ways to surprise even the project’s most loyal fans.

March 24, 2023
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M83, “Fantasy”

Providing a welcome retreat from reality, Anthony Gonzalez’s ninth LP shines so bright it should come with a special pair of sunglasses.

March 21, 2023
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra, “V”

On their fifth album, the New Zealand outfit take their once-exploratory sound one step further toward full-fledged AOR.

March 20, 2023
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The Flaming Lips, “Fight Test”

The first-ever vinyl release for this 2003 EP—featuring covers of Beck, Kylie Minogue, and Radiohead—isn’t only a look back at a pinnacle in the career of the Lips, but a testament to their immortality.

March 15, 2023
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Willie Nelson, “I Don’t Know a Thing About Love”

The 89-year-old country icon repurposes 10 compositions by Harlan Howard with a heaping tablespoon of authenticity courtesy of a heart once broken.

March 03, 2023
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Full of Hell & Primitive Man, “Suffocating Hallucination”

This fusion of grindcore and doom metal gives both bands the opportunity to explore the luminous ether produced by their combustive collaboration.

March 02, 2023
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Xiu Xiu, “Ignore Grief”

Jamie Stewart’s shapeshifting post-industrial outfit turns its eye toward dark ambient with this conceptual journey into the bowels of anarchic horror.

March 01, 2023
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Big|Brave, “nature morte”

By thrusting vocalist/guitarist Robin Wattie into center stage more so than ever before, the Montreal post-metal trio doubles down—and wins.

February 23, 2023
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Buff Monster: Tickled Pink

Once a billboard graffiti artist, Buff Monster has gotten a little bit more entrepreneurial in his recent endeavors—and is the sweetest new addition to a New York City scene in need of some fresh color.

September 06, 2017
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Mogwai, “Every Country’s Sun”

When Mogwai embrace their raucous side on their latest LP, they come across as more liberated than ever.

August 31, 2017

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Art & Culture
Rory Scovel Is Teed Off

Not really. But the South Carolina comic does set his sights on our new reality in his new special, Rory Scovel Tries Stand-Up for the First Time.

June 22, 2017
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Helium, “Ends With And”

“Ends With And” replenishes the coffers of completists whose cassette collections have crumbled and provides a wide-ranging primer for curious newcomers.

June 08, 2017
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Omar Souleyman, “To Syria, with Love”

At its core, “To Syria, with Love” is not a celebration of a love that exists in the present but rather a painful longing for a love that he wants back.

June 07, 2017
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