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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, “XI: Bleed Here Now”

It’s the cumulative effect of the Austin rockers’ 11th LP that makes this album what it is: an interdimensional fever dream that reinvents the entire history of modern music.

July 15, 2022
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Arlo McKinley, “This Mess We’re In”

The latest from the Cincinnati-based folk songwriter captures the extremes of the human experience, the highs and lows of being alive.

July 14, 2022
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Damien Jurado, “Reggae Film Star”

The songwriter’s 18th LP is a haunted concept album that brings to life the tired hearts, souls, and minds of characters based in a distant, perhaps parallel, past.

June 24, 2022
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Petrol Girls Take Us Through Their Fiery New LP “Baby” Track by Track

The Austrian political-punk four-piece’s unfortunately timely third record is out now via Hassle Records.

June 24, 2022
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The Flatliners Dig Deep Into Anxiety in the Video for New Single “Souvenir”

The Ontario punks’ sixth full-length New Ruin is out August 5 via Fat Wreck Records.

June 21, 2022
Joyce Manor on Continuing to Create Constellations of Time, Space, and Experience

Barry Johnson talks blending past and present on 40 oz. to Fresno, and how curiosity continues to fuel the West Coast pop-punk outfit.

June 14, 2022
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All Get Out, “Kodak”

The band’s fourth full-length is a powerful homage to the good, the bad, and the stasis of smalltown America.

June 10, 2022
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Andrew Bird, “Inside Problems”

Bird’s 13th full-length is a delirious journey into a world that’s both recognizable and exaggerated, half-real and half-fictional.

June 07, 2022
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Angel Olsen, “Big Time”

For her sixth full-length, Olsen has erected a country-tinged shield around the heart of her songs which often makes them feel more like pastiche than a sincere effort at conveying her usual heartfelt emotion.

June 06, 2022
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Dehd, “Blue Skies”

The 13 songs on the Chicago trio’s fourth album conjure up memories of the kind of childhood you see in movies, the kind of love that you’ve dreamed of forever but never had.

May 31, 2022
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Kayleigh Goldsworthy, “Learning to Be Happy”

The Philly-based songwriter’s latest solo release is a deeply personal, revealing, and vulnerable collection of songs that sounds like hearts breaking for eternity.

May 25, 2022
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Bottled Up Walk Us Through Their Post-Genre Opus “Grand Bizarre” Track by Track

The D.C. group’s new album is out this Friday via Misra Records.

May 25, 2022
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SPICE, “Viv”

Far from embracing the abrasive nature of the punk and hardcore scenes its members come from, the 10 songs on this sophomore LP lean heavily into what could almost be described as pop.

May 24, 2022
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Joe Rainey, “Niineta”

The debut LP from the Red Lake Ojibwe Pow Wow singer is comprised of 10 songs that bristle with beautiful tension and a deep, dark, wordless poetry.

May 20, 2022
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Cliffdiver, “Exercise Your Demons”

The first proper album from the punk seven-piece thrives with a sense of wild abandon and sheer joy at being alive.

May 04, 2022
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Spiritualized, “Everything Was Beautiful”

This ninth full-length offers a contemporary yet simultaneously anachronistic soundtrack to a world that’s become even more fucked in the four years since its prequel was released.

April 21, 2022
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Tim Kasher, “Middling Age”

The urgency and intention and raw, ragged truth that usually defines the Cursive frontman’s work is often lost within his latest solo LP’s arrangements.

April 15, 2022
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Proper., “The Great American Novel”

For this Bartees Strange–produced third record, the emo trio explore how Black genius often goes ignored.

April 05, 2022
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Desaparecidos, “Live at Shea Stadium”

This 2015 performance from Conor Oberst’s punk band pays less attention to being in tune than it does to turning the rage of the songs into tangible energy.

April 01, 2022
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Placebo, “Never Let Me Go”

The duo’s first full-length in almost nine years recaptures the glory of their earlier days more than the path of slight self-parody they had occasionally veered into since.

March 25, 2022
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