Feb 13, 2024
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Back in the ’90s, Los Angeles-based slowcore pioneers Acetone made some of the finest indie rock of the entire decade, that is until singer/bassist Richie Lee’s untimely suicide in 2001.
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Feb 12, 2024
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Over the past decade or so, all of R.E.M.’s Warner Brothers era albums (which spanned from 1988’s Green to their swan song, 2011’s Collapse Into Now) have been reissued, typically in chronological order.
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Feb 09, 2024
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Madi Diaz opens Weird Faith with a question and a confession: “What the fuck do you want?/‘Cause I’ll give you all that I’ve got.” Those opening lines encapsulate Diaz’s sixth full-length album, a record that is often tender and unfussed in presentation, yet full of unsparing honesty.
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Feb 08, 2024
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Back in 2003, especially coming after Spiritualized’s dual masterpieces of 2001’s Let It Come Down and 1997’s breakthrough Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space, Amazing Grace felt like a bit of a letdown.
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Feb 07, 2024
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Garage-punk band SPRINTS hail from Ireland’s capital city. Spearheaded by guitarist and lead singer Karla Chubb, the Dublin quartet have well and truly screamed onto the blossoming Irish guitar scene following two earlier EPs.
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Feb 06, 2024
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By Grateful Dead’s 1977 album, Terrapin Station, the band was losing steam, but the album has enough redeeming qualities to prevent its relegation to the bargain bin and ultimately justify this spectacular sounding remastered vinyl reissue.
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Feb 05, 2024
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Eliza McLamb’s debut is a tour de force of young adult poetry, soul-baring introspection, eye opening insight, and melody-filled pop.
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Feb 02, 2024
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Here’s the thing: I’m not hugely interested in details regarding the excellent management team who spotted the potential that was apparent when London-based band The Last Dinner Party (formerly The Dinner Party) began performing in venues such as The Moth Club and London’s Windmill a few years ago.
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Feb 01, 2024
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Come gather round children and I’ll tell you a tale of a band they called Cheekface. America loved them well. Borrowing a melody from Woody Guthrie’s “Pretty Boy Floyd,” or some other ancient folk tune, Cheekface’s “Don’t Stop Believing,” and all of It’s Sorted for that matter, would no doubt find favor in the baby faced gangster’s collection of 78s.
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Jan 31, 2024
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After several years of lovingly reissuing classic albums by 7 Seconds, Circle Jerks, and others, Trust has done the impossible and made many a hardcore fan’s dreams come true here by reissuing The Kids Will Have Their Say by SS Decontrol (aka SSD).
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