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Sonic Youth – Live at Brixton Academy 1992 (2020)
Recorded live on the first of two December nights in 1992 at the Brixton Academy in London, near the end of Sonic Youth’s European tour with Pavement and Cell. This concert was recorded and broadcast...
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Sonic Youth – Live in Yugoslavia 1985/1987 (2020)
Originally released as a bootleg cassette on FV Založba, a tape and vinyl label best-known for their “Hardcore Ljubljana” LP from 1985. They released many more live tapes from the 80’s LJU: Henry...
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Sonic Youth – Perspectives Musicales: Live at Cat’s Cradle 2000 (2020)
Mid-July, 2000, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In and around town in all of the various places where Cat’s Cradle shows were promoted some 8.5″x11″ fliers started popping up advertising an evening...
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Hum – Inlet (2020)
The band Hum formed in 1989 in Urbana, Illinois. Over the next decade, they released four albums and had exactly one big success, the 1995 alt-rock radio hit “Stars.” But Hum’s impact goes far beyond...
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Pere Ubu – By Order Of Mayor Pawlicki: Live In Jarocin (2020)
Pere Ubu Perform Material From Their Coed Jail Tour, Songs From The Band’s Inspired 1975-1982 Period. Includes Tracks From The Astonishing Debut Album “the Modern Dance” And Its Highly Influential...
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Bo Ningen – Sudden Fictions (2020)
Bo Ningen’s first album since 2014 comes accompanied by a schematic of its historical influences, spanning from Bach through King Crimson to DJ Rashad. The timeline is not limited to musical...
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Kooba Tercu – Proto Tekno (2020)
Arriving via a triangulation of Athens, Crete and London, yet existing at a psychic intersection between the ruins of crumbling infrastructure and an intimidating future dystopia Kooba Tercu have seen...
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Brian Crook with the Renderers – This World Just Eats Me Up Alive (2019)
Few people would call Brian Crook’s voice beautiful. It’s a reedy, nasal tenor that resonates and rousts about in the broad spaces of his Kiwi South Islander’s accent. Nearly a decade ago, Crook and...
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Sonic Youth – Live in Bremen 1991 (2020)
Live in Bremen was recorded at the Aladin Music Hall on August 27 1991, just halfway through the 12 day European tour that would later become immortalized in The Year Punk Broke documentary directed by...
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Taiwan Housing Project – Sub-Language Trustees (2019)
Taiwan Housing Project tames an unruly no wave racket into blistered, thwarted grooves, built of primitive, tom-rampaging drums, feedback addled guitar, the odd blurt of belligerent sax and the...
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Boris – NO (2020)
The first quarter-century of recordings by the Japanese trio Boris plays like a guide to heavy music’s assorted possibilities. Since the mid-’90s, they have pivoted from curdled psych-rock to blown-out...
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Adrenalin O.D. – The Wacky Hi-Jinks of…Adrenalin O.D. /...
A suburban thrash foursome from New Jersey, Adrenalin O.D. debuted on a 1982 compilation from ROIR Records which also included Bad Brains and the Beastie Boys. The group, including guitarists Paul...
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Yo La Tengo – We Have Amnesia Sometimes (2020)
Yo La Tengo have corralled their recent string of new tracks for an instrumental album titled We Have Amnesia Sometimes, which the long-running New Jersey band created during a week of socially...
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Magik Markers – Isolated from Exterior Time: 2020 EP (2020)
Escapism has long been the guiding philosophy of Magik Markers. The avant-rock destructionists titled their 2013 album Surrender to the Fantasy, a reference to the role of “the unconscious mind” in...
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Jaye Jayle – Prisyn (2020)
Evan Patterson has always kept the experimental side of Jaye Jayle‘s music at the margins — until Prisyn. On Patterson’s fourth album, the electronics and ominous atmospheres that updated the Americana...
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Sonic Youth – Live in Denver 1986 (2020)
Sonic Youth were a force on stage, and though we may never see them perform together again, any live recording of theirs is worth hearing. Here’s one from the Evol tour. Brian Turner penned the...
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King Buzzo & Trevor Dunn – Gift of Sacrifice (2020)
It’s been six years since Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne released his first full length solo album, and with his main band’s endless touring and recording schedule interrupted first by drummer Dale...
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Guided by Voices – Mirrored Aztec (2020)
The phase Guided by Voices entered around the time their classic ’90s lineup reunited for the 2012 album Let’s Go Eat the Factory was one marked by ferocious new levels of output. Even for a band known...
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Sonic Youth – Rarities 1&2 (2020)
Rarities 1: The first in a series of rare recordings selected from various out-of-print and hard-to-find compilations. This collection begins in 1982 at The Kitchen in NYC (with James Sclavunos on...
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Marilyn Manson – WE ARE CHAOS (2020)
It’s hard for an artist like Marilyn Manson to not been considered a has-been. The Antichrist Superstar made his name in the ’90s as a shock icon, terrorizing parents and threatening their authority...
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