Tim Heidecker: High School
Tim Heidecker’s transformation into a serious musician is a lot like if Andy Kaufman had dropped his professional wrestling heel shtick and started playing…
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GWAR: The New Dark Ages
Once upon a time, a high school freshman with dreams of one day becoming a world-famous music journalist boarded a school bus to find…
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Weird Nightmare: Weird Nightmare
With its quick and dirty garage rock sound and spastic punk energy, “Hard to Explain”, the first single from The Strokes’ 2001 full-length debut,…
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Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Thirty seconds into Kendrick Lamar’s new double album, he says, “One-thousand eight-hundred and fifty-five days, I’ve been goin’ through somethin’.” The significance of this…
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Bloc Party: Alpha Games
Instrumentally, the British post-punk band Bloc Party sound impressively tight on their latest full-length album, Alpha Games. They should, as it’s their first studio…
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Wet Leg: Wet Leg
Wet Leg is the indie rock duo consisting of lead vocalist/rhythm guitarist Rhian Teasdale and backing vocalist/lead guitarist Hester Chambers. The two women met…
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Destroyer: Labyrinthitis
For those who have been paying attention to Destroyer’s recorded output for the last decade, it should come as no surprise that moments on…
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Hippo Campus: LP3
“2 Young 2 Die”, the first song on Minnesota indie rock band Hippo Campus’ LP3 is, in a word, safe. Milquetoast might be a…
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BODEGA: Broken Equipment
It’s been four years since the NYC art punk outfit BODEGA wowed the world with their outstanding debut studio album, Endless Scroll, but that…
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Boris: W
The last track on Boris’ 2020 album, NO, was titled “Interlude”. The purpose of this was to have their follow-up album, W, work as…
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