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Uniform – The Long Walk (2018)
Following the terrorizing Wake in Fright and an equally hair-raising collaboration with the Body, Uniform push their sound even further with their third album for Sacred Bones. This time, Ben Greenberg...
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Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog (2018)
The wait is over. After months of teasing a new album was en route, Alice in Chains have revealed that their sixth studio album will be titled Rainier Fog and the ominously monikered set is due Aug....
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KEN mode – Loved (2018)
This seventh album from the Manitoba noise rock/ metal titans sees them going deeper and darker than ever before, stepping back from the more “punk rock” sound and tempos of 2015’s Steve...
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Suicidal Tendencies – Still Cyco Punk After All These Years (2018)
It’s 2018, 38 years after Venice hardcore/thrash crossover titans Suicidal Tendencies formed, and frontman Mike Muir still doesn’t give a shit about what anybody thinks he should be doing. This is a...
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Mothers – Render Another Ugly Method (2018)
The second album from Kristine Leschper’s idiosyncratic indie rock project Mothers, Render Another Ugly Method already represents a marked stylistic expansion just two years after the band’s debut....
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Beak>–>>> (2018)
Beak> are a band very much out of time. They’ve held a definite presence over the Bristol and UK rock scenes over the last decade, but it’s of an eerily gothic form – their mossy, spectral music...
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Thalia Zedek Band – Fighting Season (2018)
On the cover of Fighting Season, Thalia Zedek is holding an electric guitar that features a large sticker reading “FCK NZS.” In 2018, no one should be surprised by the notion of an established...
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Exploded View – Obey (2018)
We live in an age that makes communication with people from other cities, countries, or even continents easier. Naturally, this technological advance is also an element that facilitates collaborations...
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Pixies – Live from the Fallout Shelter (2018)
When the Pixies showed up at UMass Lowell’s student-run WJUL on a chilly Monday evening, they were just another new band out of Boston. They retreated to the small “Fallout Shelter” studio in the...
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Mudhoney – Digital Garbage (2018)
There is a core of characteristics that capture something like a worldview espoused by Mudhoney, and it helps to explain the longevity of their appeal. There’s a misanthropic streak – consider that,...
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Distant Sky: Live in Copenhagen EP (2018)
Nick Cave’s image, historically speaking, has always been an awkward one. Notoriously hard to pin down for interview – and, if and when you did, unlikely to give you anything but fuckin-with-ya...
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Therapy? – Cleave (2018)
It’s that question mark placed at the end of their name that somehow captures the spirit of the band. The question mark that band bassist, Michael Mckeegan, insists is placed there in all...
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Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams (2018)
In 2011 Toronto punk sextet Fucked Up released their consensus-held opus David Comes to Life, a game-changer not just in punk music but transcending into all guitar-led music of this side of the...
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Peter Murphy – 5 Albums (2018)
Despite having a successful solo career as a cult artist, vocalist Peter Murphy remains best known as the lead singer for Bauhaus, the pioneering post-punk goth rock band of the early ’80s. Boxset...
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R.E.M. – R.E.M. at the BBC (2018)
R.E.M.’s career trajectory as it relates to their relationship with the BBC will be laid out in a new box set entitled, fittingly, R.E.M. at the BBC. The eight-CD, one-DVD collection is due out...
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Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want (2018)
If you’re hoping for new Daughters the same as the old Daughters, let this album’s title serve as a warning: You won’t get what you want, and that’s a good thing. What’s always been most exciting about...
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Moe Tucker – I’m Sticking with You: An Introduction to Moe Tucker (2018)
Lou Reed and John Cale may have been the brains behind the Velvet Underground, but in a very real way, Moe Tucker was the heart. Her drumming was primal and passionate, and though Reed’s poetic...
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The Men – Hated: 2008-2011 (2018)
One of the more interesting trajectories over the last decade has been the quick rise and eventual fall of Brooklyn DIY punk band The Men. Back in 2011, they managed to surprise audiences with a brutal...
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Bad Brains – Lost Tracks (2018)
Late 70’s Washington, D.C. to NYC punks/dreads ….collects what looks like their “pre” Bad Brains band “Mind Power” – demo from (1978) & two unknown studio demos from (1979) …. Very rare tracks...
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Sonic Youth – CBGB, New York, NY [December 13, 1988] (2018)
They were one of the world’s most impressive live groups, and now Sonic Youth have begun releasing recordings of old shows at part of an ongoing live archival program. Last month marked the 30th...
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