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Trupa Trupa – Of the Sun (2019)
Of the Sun is Gdansk band Trupa Trupa’s third album to be widely released outside of Poland, following Headache in 2015 and Jolly New Songs in 2017. Each successive record has swapped a shade of...
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Hash Redactor – Drecksound (2019)
Hash Redactor,’s Alec McIntyre played one of Ex-Cult’s dueling, snarling guitars (along with J. B. Horrell) while in NOTS, Meredith Lones clanked the ferocious bass and Charlotte Watson frenetically...
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Thurston Moore – Spirit Counsel (2019)
Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore offers a CD boxset album Spirit Counsel with three compact discs and book. Spirit Counsel is a collection of three extended compositions recorded between 2018-19....
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Giant Sand – Recounting the Ballads of Thin Line Men (2019)
It’s 33 and a third years since the seminal Giant Sand and its country cousin The Band Of… Blacky Ranchette entered the studio to lay down their second albums. Yes. Both bands had recorded their...
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Mudhoney – Morning in America EP (2019)
Morning in America consists of 7 songs that were recorded during the sessions for Mudhoney’s 2018 album, Digital Garbage (“…an astute, politically relevant and commendably fired-up garage punk belter...
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The White Stripes – Live in Mississippi (2019)
On Jul 31, 2007, the White Stripes played their final show. The duo was touring behind what would be their final album as a group (2007’s Icky Thump) and performed a 20-song, 4-encore set at the...
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The Replacements – Dead Man’s Pop (2019)
The Replacements story is filled with what-ifs and near misses. Their legend, essentially, is that if the chips had fallen differently, they might have become a popular band and had success into the...
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Dinosaur Jr. – Green Mind / Where You Been / Without a Sound/ Hand It Over...
Dinosaur Jr. reissuing all four of their nineties-era albums: Green Mind, Where You Been, Without a Sound, and Hand It Over. The London-based indie label Cherry Red is handling the new editions, which...
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Peter Jefferies – Last Ticket Home (2019)
Peter Jefferies, a living legend of New Zealand underground music, from his seminal bands Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment, to his collaborative efforts in bands such as Plagal Grind...
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (2019)
Nck Cave and the Bad Seeds’ 18th album was casually announced, a week before its release, in answer to an online query from a fan on Cave’s Red Hand Files website. That says a lot about how Nick Cave...
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Boris – Love & Evol (2019)
Boris, Japan’s premier noise-rock group, celebrate their partnership with Third Man Records by simultaneously looking forward and backward. In addition to reissues of Akuma No Uta and Feedbacker, they...
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Lightning Bolt – Sonic Citadel (2019)
Lightning Bolt have been around since the 1990s, pummeling listeners and live audiences into submission with their extremely loud, often-improvised form of noise rock. As bass player Brian Gibson and...
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The Scientists – Not for Sale: Live 1978/79 (2019)
There’s nothing like ‘Swampland’ era Scientists. Post Punk at its finest. Dark, swampy and laced with a Psychedelic mix of Gun Club, Captain Beefheart and The Stooges. If not familiar proceed...
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Kim Gordon – No Home Record (2019)
Kim Gordon doesn’t put much stock in the superlatives that have piled up around her over the years: pioneer, visionary, icon, legend, beacon. “Being referred to as an ‘icon,’ blah blah blah,” she said...
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Guided By Voices – Sweating the Plague (2019)
Guided By Voices have already released two albums this year, their February double album Zeppelin Over China and April’s 24-track follow-up Warp and Woof. Sweating the Plague, the band’s 29th album,...
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Screaming Females – Singles Too (2019)
With a discography ranging from good (All at Once) to great (the Steve Albini-produced Ugly) to secretly influential (“Jonah,” from 2006’s Baby Teeth, predated Courtney Barnett by six years), Screaming...
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Swans – Leaving Meaning (2019)
Michael Gira founded/guiding-lighted the sort of no-wave / noise / spiritual-purification band Swans in NYC 35 some odd years ago, and, roughly, he’s made a career out of trying musically to express...
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Gong Gong Gong 工工工 – Phantom Rhythm (2019)
Gong Gong Gong is a duo from Beijing who play an alarmingly stripped-down form of hypnotic rock which spiritually evokes the blues as well as punk, but otherwise can’t be directly compared to any other...
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Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York [25th Anniversary Reissue] (2019)
…includes five rehearsal performances previously only available on DVD, specifically: “Come As You Are”, “Polly”, “Plateau”, “Pennyroyal Tea”, and “The Man Who Sold the World”. If In Utero is a suicide...
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Foo Fighters – Foo Files (2019)
If there’s one thing Foo Fighters fans love, it’s Foo Fighters. And they’ll get plenty more of that with the launch of the “Foo Files” archive series. The whole thing has started off with the arrival...
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