Dec 01, 2023
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Julie Byrne’s jaw-dropping 2023 LP, The Greater Wings, was her first in six years, and, rightly, likely to make an appearance in numerous album of the year lists.
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Nov 30, 2023
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Had Me a Real Good Time… is great (and great-sounding!) document of Faces’ live BBC performances.
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Nov 29, 2023
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From the moment the rich jangle of opener “Protocol” gives way to a plunging wave of warped guitar and ethereal melody, you know what you’re going to get from Hotline TNT’s second album, Cartwheel.
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Nov 28, 2023
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Some albums take you right back to the day you first heard them. Green Day’s Dookie, is one of those albums, and this grand, luxurious anniversary reissue is everything and more.
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Nov 27, 2023
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Recorded at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall and the Lodge Room in Los Angeles, MJ Lenderman’s latest is a rare thing—a live album that’s actually worth the listen.
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Nov 22, 2023
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Kurt Vile has worn a lot of hats over the course of three decades in music, but prophet of doom is a new one. The nearly hour long Back to Moon Beach is laughably described as an EP (extended play for sure), and consists primarily of outtakes recorded over the past few years.
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Nov 21, 2023
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Back in 2006, Wild Carnation released Superbus, only their second album (and last to date). While their 1994 debut, Tricycle, seemed to get some notice and traction in the indie rock press, this one seemed to completely fall off many radars, perhaps because of the 12-year delay or for other reasons.
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Nov 20, 2023
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The third Archive release from Joni Mitchell offers an expansive look behind and beyond the curtain during a period that saw startling creative growth from the artist as well as her greatest commercial success.
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Nov 17, 2023
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Following the pattern but doubling the size of their three previous clean-up collections, Chapel Hill’s heroically brilliant Superchunk have seen fit here to unlock a treasure trove overflowing with gems, oddities, and curiosities.
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Nov 16, 2023
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Part of Matador’s humorously-titled “Revisionist History Series” (their ongoing reissue campaign of the last four to five years), this is a straightforward vinyl reissue of Liz Phair’s startling and career-defining debut album Exile in Guyville, released back in 1993 and now celebrating its 30th (!) anniversary.
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