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Ween – GodWeenSatan: Live (2016)
Ween celebrated the 2001 reissue of their 1990 album God Ween Satan: The Oneness — commonly accepted as their debut, despite all the indie tapes of the ’80s — by performing the album in its entirety in...
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Part Chimp – IV (2017)
After splitting for five years, London’s Part Chimp decided to play a few shows in 2016, and they liked it enough that they chose to make it official and cut a new studio album. Part Chimp’s 2017...
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Thurston Moore – Rock N Roll Consciousness (2017)
Though they personified the squall and squalor of 1980s Manhattan, Sonic Youth’s hearts always belonged to ’60s California. Starting with 1985’s Bad Moon Rising, Golden State roots both literal (see:...
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Pontiak – Dialectic of Ignorance (2017)
Long-tenured heavy psych outfit Pontiak return with the potent Dialectic of Ignorance, marking the trio’s ninth and possibly sludgiest effort to date. Since 2005, brothers Van, Jennings, and Lain...
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At the Drive-In – in•ter a•li•a (2017)
At the Drive-In are back — but undeniably changed. With the release of their long, long-awaited fourth studio album, in•ter a•li•a, which follows the now-canonized 2000 fireball, Relationship of...
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Big Walnuts Yonder – Big Walnuts Yonder (2017)
Back in 2008, Mike Watt of Minutemen and The Stooges and Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhart came up with the idea for a collaborative project that would allow their creativity to stretch beyond what their...
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The...
…Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1984-2014 does an outstanding job in charting how this remarkable band managed to trek from those unpromising beginnings to their ongoing...
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Feedtime – Gas (2017)
In the ’80s, Australian trio feedtime cut a handful of albums that documented their massive, pummeling sound for the ages, built around snarling slide guitar, rubbery basslines, and unrelenting...
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TAD – Salt Lick [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
Steve Albini has a knack for making guitars sound like buzzsaws and drums sound huge and punishing. So when Tad flew to Chicago to spend a few days recording with Albini at the controls, it seemed like...
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TAD – 8-Way Santa [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
Tad had documented their unrelenting parade of heavy riffage and antisocial behavior with no small skill on their debut album, God’s Balls, and the follow-up EP, Salt Lick. But by this point, the...
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Swans – The Great Annihilator + Michael Gira – Drainland (2017 Remasters)
In 1995, Swans were a band in transition. Having maintained an album-a-year pace for most of their existence, they had taken an unusually long 3 years to release The Great Annihilator. By that point,...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – Solid State Mercenaries + Birth of a Ghost (2017)
Solid State Mercenaries is the forty-sixth album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, released on April 21, 2017. It is the twenty-first release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings,...
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Disco Inferno – In Debt (1995, Reissue 2017)
Disco Inferno burned bright and stayed in motion even if they did so in relative indie-level isolation. In Debt, a collection initially put out by Che Records in 1992 and reissued here by Rocket Girl...
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Hey Colossus – The Guillotine (2017)
London sextet Hey Colossus‘ latest is a barbed punch at the UK’s current political climate. The band have been on a roll since 2015 when they released two excellent albums – Radio Static High and In...
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Helium – Ends with And (2017)
Instead of piling bonus tracks onto the backs of their new vinyl reissues of Helium’s two studio albums, The Dirt of Luck and The Magic City, Matador have done an even kinder thing and put together an...
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Jason Loewenstein – Spooky Action (2017)
Sebadoh helped pioneer the sound of lo-fi indie in the early ’90s, and guitarist Jason Loewenstein has been part of that work since he joined in 1989. But sometimes being part of a groundbreaking band...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Pigs Might Fly (2017)
1. Public Service Broadcasting – The Other Side 2. Hawkwind – Lost in Science 3. Gong – Through Restless Seas I Come 4. Six Organs of Admittance – Adoration Song 5. Dungen – Jakten Genom Skogen 6....
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Radiohead – OK Computer: OKNOTOK 1997-2017 (2017)
Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OK COMPUTER: the original twelve track album, three unreleased tracks and eight B-sides,...
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The Telescopes – As Light Return (2017)
The Telescopes’ 2017 album, As Light Return, is an almost 180-degree turn from their previous album, Hidden Fields. That record was their most song-based effort in years, with melodies and hooks poking...
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Melvins – A Walk with Love and Death (2017)
Given the Melvins‘ long history, and their devotion to the tar-pit heaviness of ’70s hard rock (in particular Black Sabbath), it seems odd that they’ve waited so long to deliver one of the standard...
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