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Uniform – Shame (2020)
After drummer Greg Fox added a visceral attack to Uniform‘s third album, 2018’s The Long Walk, Michael Berdan and Ben Greenberg worked with Mike Sharp, a Texas musician and sound designer who has...
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Skeletons – If the Cat Come Back (2020)
Matt Mehlan has been making Skeletons records under various guises for about 20 years, supported by Girl-Faced Boys and Kings of All Cities and other cohorts, and kicking up a surreal and polyrhythmic...
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Thurston Moore – By The Fire (2020)
References to fearlessly out-there cult jazz icons Alice Coltrane and Albert Ayler, and the album mission statement’s talk of ‘rainbow energy’ (which provides a primer for the often unabashedly florid...
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Sonic Youth – Live in Torino 1987 (2020)
Sonic Youth Archive is a home to Sonic Youth recordings including official and unreleased, self-released or stray Sonic Youth recordings. Our Sister lp was released on June 1st and by June 4th we were...
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Sonic Youth – World Trade Center Benefit 2001 (2020)
Some brief notes: Thurston Kim and I all lived downtown, and our studio on Murray Street was downtown. In fact pieces of one of the engines landed on the roof of our studio building, that’s how close...
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Wax Chattels – Clot (2020)
On their self-titled debut, Wax Chattels put their own stamp on the lineage of arty yet rough-edged post-punk, touching on Suicide and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs as well as the darker side of New Zealand’s...
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Sonic Youth – Rarities 3 (2020)
…more Sonic Youth releases from their very extensive archives. This time it’s Volume 3 of the Sonic Youth Rarities series, featuring hard-to-find studio recordings, most of which are instrumental....
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METZ – Atlas Vending (2020)
Hell still hath no fury like the band METZ. The Toronto noise rockers are functioning like a well-oiled and lethally dangerous machine on their fourth album, Atlas Vending. Hayden Menzies hits the...
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The Replacements – Pleased to Meet Me [Deluxe Edition] (2020)
The making of Pleased to Meet Me was a transformative journey for The Replacements, one that began with the combustible Minneapolis combo on the brink of collapse and culminated in one of the...
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Rubella Ballet – Radio Sessions 1982-2018 (2020)
Rubella Ballet’s two Peel sessions from 1982 and 1983 coupled with a 2018 L.A radio session. All digitally remastered by Sid Truelove at DIY or DIE studios. Released in association with FOAD Musick....
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The Wolfgang Press – Unremembered, Remembered (RSD 2020)
“It is a great joy for all those involved that this imperfect circle is now complete and the unfinished noise we made so long ago, can now be pored over by those few rememberers who care enough to sit...
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The Fall – The Frenz Experiment [Expanded Edition] (2020)
Expanded edition of 1988 album features non-LP singles, rarities, BBC sessions, B-sides and more. The second disc collects the Fall’s non-LP “There’s a Ghost in My House” and “Hit the North” singles,...
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Magik Markers – 2020 (2020)
Just after the start of this century, Magik Markers felt like a spectacular explosion that would soon burn through all available fuel. A noise-rock trio that earned the back half of that hyphenate...
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The Fall – Imperial Wax Solvent [Expanded Edition] (2020)
This re-issue of the 2008 album comes with two bonus discs, including an unused version of the album recorded at Britannia Row studios in London and a live set recorded at De La Warr, Bexhill On Sea...
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Dope Body – Crack a Light (2020)
When Baltimore noise rock quartet Dope Body finished their third album, 2014’s Lifer, they had a surplus of additional songs and miscellaneous recordings left over. In 2015 they presented the best of...
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Spectres – It’s Never Going to Happen and This Is Why (2020)
Spectres return with It’s Never Going To Happen And This Is Why, their bluntest, most bludgeoning LP yet. The oft sprawling and trance-inducing explorations of feedback and terror featured on their...
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Adulkt Life – Book of Curses (2020)
Roughly 25 years after the influential band Huggy Bear split up, one of the group’s vocalists, Chris Rowley, returned to music in the band Adulkt Life. Teaming with two members of Male Bonding...
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Swans – Children of God (2020)
By 1986/7 Swans had run its course with the physical assault of sound that we had employed previously for the most part. I wanted to move on to other things and didn’t want to get stuck in some style,...
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Wilco – Front of House series: Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ (2020)
Wilco is back with the latest entry in their nugs.net exclusive “Front of House” series. This release features both nights of Wilco’s 2010 “An Evening With” tour stop in Montclair, New Jersey....
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The Dead Milkmen –“Depends On the Horse…” (2020)
The companion soundtrack to the popular PBS series “Rundown Abbey” Actually… this volume of songs is the soundtrack to the first 36 episodes of the weekly program “Big Questions with The Dead Milkmen”...
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