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Obnox – Know America (2015)
It’s hard not to be a little bit awed by Cleveland’s veteran underground rock juggernaut Lamont Thomas. Know America is his fifth LP in four years as Obnox (not to mention the bounty of singles he has...
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Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken – En Konsert for Folk Flest (2015)
In the winter of 2012/13, Motorpsycho was approached by Trondheim’s biggest cultural festival, Olavsfestdagene (OFD). The festival’s director had seen Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken perform their...
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Henry Blacker – Summer Tombs (2015)
…The second reason why a gap in QOTSA activity is really quite a wonderful thing, is because we can now turn our full collective attention to Henry Blacker. Are you sceptical that this Hey Colossus...
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Nine Inch Nails – Halo I-IV (2015)
Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor’s industrial rock outfit, released a vinyl box set entitled Halo I-IV for Record Store Day Black Friday. Three of the collection’s four 12-inch vinyl records are dedicated...
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Teenage Jesus & The Jerks – Live 1977-1979 (2015)
This spring, Nicolas Jaar reissued a spoken word album from no wave pioneer Lydia Lunch through his Other People label. Next, Jaar release archival live tracks from Lunch’s exploratory former band...
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Yonatan Gat – Director (2015)
Between 2005 and 2011, Israeli trio Monotonix played over a thousand live shows, almost all of which were spectacular displays of high-energy mayhem and explosive antics, gaining them a reputation as a...
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The White Stripes – Live at The Gold Dollar III (2015)
Live at the Gold Dollar Vol. III is part of the latest package for subscribers of Third Man’s Vault. The Gold Dollar is a venue where the White Stripes played some of their earliest shows, and this...
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Uniform – Perfect World (2015)
Uniform, a new Brooklyn duo composed of ex-The Men bassist Ben Greenberg and ex-Drunkdriver singer Michael Berdan, don’t joke around when it comes to their dreary worldview. Perfect World is not meant...
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Tropical Trash – UFO Rot (2015)
The earliest recordings from Louisville, Kentucky’s Tropical Trash paint a portrait of a band in the throes of a gnarly identity crisis: punchy quickies that straddle hardcore and brownout punk;...
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Mission of Burma – Signals, Calls and Marches (1981, Remastered 2015)
One could argue that Mission of Burma‘s first 12″ release, Signals, Calls and Marches, was the point where “indie rock” as a separate and distinct musical subgenre well and truly began. Mission of...
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Guided By Voices – Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War (2015)
Four-CD box set Captain Kangaroo Won the War features 100 tracks of Robert Pollard-penned demos, alternate takes, B-sides and more, with its reach stretching across 20 years of the songwriter’s career....
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Pop. 1280 – Paradise (2016)
“War is god.” These are the words uttered by Judge Holden when he discusses the control of war in a mere card game within Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Holden takes his hand through McCarthy’s page...
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Half Japanese – Perfect (2016)
“We’ll stand up and we’ll stand pat. We’ll stand tall for this and that,” Jad Fair sings on “We Cannot Miss”, the second cut on Perfect, Half Japanese’s 14th studio album and second in as many years....
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Circus Devils – Stomping Grounds (2015)
Last year Robert Pollard and the Tobias brothers released Escape, an album that pulled off the usual Circus Devils trick of being completely different from the previous dozen or so records — but in...
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Insect Ark – Portal/Well (2015)
Dana Schechter has a long history with music that’s both lulling and crushing. In the early ’90s, she co-founded the noise-rock band Gift Horse with Jef Whitehead (later of Wrest and Leviathan infamy)....
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Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O – Are You Land or Water (2016)
The Barbarossa Cave is located in the Kyffhäuser region of Germany, and takes its name from a local legend. According to such lore, Frederick Barbarossa – former German monarch and Roman Emperor of...
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Running – Wake Up Applauding (2016)
Running elbows in quick from the City of the Big Shoulders with Wake Up Applauding. Delivered loudly, dripping in unintelligible menace with the occasional flash of dark humor, their bathtub mixture...
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Mothers – When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired (2016)
After playing ten shows at this year’s CMJ, Mothers has signed to Grand Jury Music in the U.S. and Wichita Recordings in the U.K. The Athens, GA-based quartet will release their debut album When You...
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USA Nails – No Pleasure (2015)
Let’s get it out of the way: USA Nails are a post-hardcore supergroup featuring members of the British underground scene’s finest acts of the past decade, including Oceansize, Future of the Left, Kong...
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Motorpsycho – Here Be Monsters (2016)
Here Be Monsters started life as a commission for the centennial jubilee of the Norwegian Technical Museum in November, 2014. The music was written for the expanded version of Motorpsycho that features...
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