White Ward: False Light
White Ward is a Ukrainian group specializing in what they dub “DEVIANT BLACK METAL” on their Bandcamp page. Bassist/vocalist Andrey Pechatkin specified the band’s…
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Superorganism: World Wide Pop
Five years after they formed, the London electropop band Superorganism have released their sophomore full-length album, World Wide Pop. With production assistance from John…
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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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Perfume Genius: Ugly Season
Mike Hadreas has undergone a series of significant changes since beginning to make music under the Perfume Genius name in 2008. He went from…
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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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Black Star: No Fear of Time
Kickstarting their careers with an eponymous album in 1998, Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) and Talib Kweli quickly solidified their positions in…
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The Inflorescence: Remember What I Look Like
San Diego’s non-cis male punk band The Inflorescence is a quartet that comprises Tuesday Denekas on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Charlee Berlin on…
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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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Craig Finn: A Legacy of Rentals
Craig Finn (frontman of the Hold Steady) released a Legacy of Rentals, his fifth solo album. The album was produced by fellow collaborator, Josh…
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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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