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Sonic Youth – Spinhead Sessions 1986 (2016)
The slow-burn sounds of Sonic Youth’s 1986 rehearsals to score Ken Friedman’s spooky highway film Made in USA are yet another mile marker in the band’s long and varied existence, now being issued as...
View ArticleJambinai – A Hermitage (2016)
Jambinai are a South Korean group who incorporate traditional instruments such as the geomungo (a long zither plucked with a short bamboo stick while seated) and the haegeum (a small, thin fiddle-like...
View ArticleBig Black – Atomizer (1986, Remastered 2015)
“This compact disc, compiled to exploit those of you gullible enough to own the bastardly first generation digital music system, contains all-analog masters. Compact discs are quite durable, this being...
View ArticleBig Business – Command Your Weather (2016)
The fifth studio long-player from the Seattle-based duo, Command Your Weather emits a masterful blast of minimalist, mostly upbeat anthemic post- metal that lays to rest any notion that Big Business is...
View ArticleBoris – Pink [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
Hyperactive. Accessible. Aggressive. That sums up Pink. Ten years after its release, it remains the Japanese trio’s most focused album as it displays the full Boris arsenal – from dreamy shoegaze pop...
View ArticleDinosaur Jr. – Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not (2016)
Let’s face facts — in 2016 it is remarkable that there’s a new Dinosuar Jr album to go ape over. After all, the original line-up of the band (J Mascis, Lou Barlow & Murph) only recorded three full...
View ArticleOmar Rodríguez-López – Sworn Virgins (2016)
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has always been one to defy convention and expectation. From redefining what punk rock could and should be with At the Drive-in to exploring the limits of composition with Mars...
View ArticleOmar Rodríguez-López – Blind Worms, Pious Swine (2016)
Blind Worms, Pious Swine is the twenty-ninth studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist and his third to be released through the series initiated by Ipecac Recordings. On July 7, 2016, it...
View ArticleBlack Tape for a Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments + Limitless EP (2016)
On their 30th anniversary, Black Tape for a Blue Girl returns to their evocative ethereal, neoclassical, gothic roots with an album exploring the existential predicaments of time’s passage, choices...
View ArticleMedia Jeweler – $99 R/T Hawaii (2015)
On a spastic yet weirdly accessible debut, Santa Ana -based indie quartet Media Jeweler make good on their press release’s claim to “capture the relentless restlessness of being alive on this...
View ArticleExploded View – Exploded View (2016)
There is a depression within Exploded View’s self-titled debut that does not hide itself from its audience. The Mexico City/Berlin-based band plays around with a black and white sound through an...
View ArticleBlack Foxxes – I’m Not Well (2016)
For the last decade, there’s a school of thought which will you tell that British rock has been wandering in a desert of cheap American knock-offs and derivative, uninventive re-hashing of some of the...
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Noun – Throw Your Body On the Gears and Stop the Machine with Your Blood (2015)
“I want your love, I want your blood,” Marissa Paternoster repeats on “Loveblood”. Fittingly, the Screaming Females frontwoman surprise-released that track and the accompanying dark-titled Throw Your...
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Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes – Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes (2016)
Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes: a name whose silliness and faux-profundity does not even begin to reflect the level of aggression and power and vinegar present across the Austin trio’s self-titled debut....
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Wilco – Schmilco (2016)
Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy has always been good at evoking his duplicitous feelings to shade his characters with contrapuntal depth; think of the woman trapped in his longings for, and resentments toward,...
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree (2016)
The self-produced Skeleton Tree is Nick Cave’s sixteenth album with his longstanding backing band and his first studio album since 2013’s chart-topping Push the Sky Away. Skeleton Tree began its...
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Wovenhand – Star Treatment (2016)
David Eugene Edwards has been an exceptionally enigmatic figure since he first began to infuse country, Americana, and dark folk with an unparalleled intensity. What started with 16 Horsepower during...
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The Scientists – A Place Called Bad (2016)
In 2016, when The Numero Group released the comprehensive box set A Place Called Bad, The Scientists had mostly faded from the indie rock landscape. While their influence was widely felt in the music...
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Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine (1992, Audio Fidelity 2016)
Probably the first album to successfully merge the seemingly disparate sounds of rap and heavy metal, Rage Against the Machine‘s self-titled debut was groundbreaking enough when released in 1992, but...
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Drive-By Truckers – American Band
From their breakthrough album (2001’s Southern Rock Opera) onward, the Drive-By Truckers have never shied away from dealing with the political and philosophical divides that come with life in the...
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