Jan 27, 2017
Music
Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary
Crunchy and resolute, Ty Segall‘s newest self-titled toaster turns up some unearthed crust and butter that is both satiating and balanced. The 29-year-old’s ninth studio offering is his second self-titled, but one shouldn’t view that as an invitation to call it a reinvention.
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Jan 25, 2017
Music
Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary
When Japandroids were recording their latest album, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, it would have been hard for them to conceive of the environment into which the album would finally be released.
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Jan 20, 2017
Music
Various Artists
Two days after Led Zeppelin’s concert film The Song Remains the Same hit theaters, The Damned dropped U.K. punk’s opening salvo with their debut single, “New Rose.”
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Jan 18, 2017
Music
Foxygen
We’ve come a long way in the five short years since Foxygen‘s breakout release, Take the Kids Off Broadway: a gloriously all-over-the-place disc of psych-pop and endearingly lo-fi rock freak-outs.
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Jan 17, 2017
Music
Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary
Toronto-based Austra‘s third album, Future Politics, pushes their modus of uptempo mystic darkwave permeated by airy goth song. At home in the frosty confines continuing to surround her, lead singer, keyboardist, and producer Katie Stelmanis soars over a bolstered field of production and through spirited themes addressing the forces that prompt reaction.
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Jan 11, 2017
Music
Web Exclusive
Let’s Go Down and Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds of 1967 features three CDS, 80 tracks and nearly four hours of some of the best lesser-known British psychedelic music from 1967.
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Jan 09, 2017
Music
Issue # 59 - 15th Anniversary
Five years since their sophomore album Coexist, The xx has taken their sound in a new direction. While the band stuck to stripped down singles like “Angels” on their last record, the trio have taken things in a more dynamic direction this time around.
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Jan 06, 2017
Music
Peter Doherty
Despite seeming wholly dysfunctional, Pete Doherty releases a lot of music, either with his group Babyshambles, or with his original iconic group, The Libertines. Hamburg Demonstrations, however, is Doherty’s first solo album in seven years, one he is releasing with an added “r” to his first name, presumably an indication of a makeover of sorts.
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