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Coach Party

KILLJOY

Chess Club

Sep 07, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

After releasing three acclaimed EPs and touring relentlessly, including playing to a sold-out audience of 97,000 at the Stade de France outside Paris opening for the French band Indochine, Coach Party finally release their debut album, KILLJOY.

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Sep 06, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

Craft Recordings has done a commendable job at reissuing R.E.M.‘s catalog on vinyl. Collapse Into Now was the R.E.M.‘s final studio album, its 15th in total, and was originally released in 2011.

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Sep 05, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

R.E.M.‘s 2004 album, Around the Sun, reissued here on 180g double vinyl, is an underrated slow burn that reveals itself more and more with multiple listens.

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The Armed

Perfect Saviors

Sargent House

Sep 01, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

The Armed have, until recently, presented themselves as “functionally anonymous,” a revolving door lineup boasting members of Converged, Queens of the Stone Age, and Jane’s Addiction, alongside multitudinous creative friends and musical acquaintances.

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Aug 31, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

Hours after my mother passed away, I can recall stepping out into the garden—bewildered, untethered, adrift. Then, inexplicably, every detail in the garden seemed to snap into a weird kind of piercing clarity.

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Aug 30, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

On her third album, and first for Double Double Whammy, Allegra Krieger evidences a strong grasp of her folk-based roots.

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Aug 29, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

Massive career-spanning box sets are a completist’s dream. In this installment, Rhino takes on Stevie Nicks’ solo career.

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Aug 28, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

John Golden is known in industry circles as a record mastering engineer extraordinaire. However, perhaps unbeknownst to the artists who benefited from his studio expertise, Golden had a brief recording and performing career himself in his home state of Ohio in the early ‘60s .

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Ratboys

The Window

Topshelf

Aug 25, 2023 Music Web Exclusive

Julia Steiner is one of the best songwriters out there at the moment. Ratboys’ previous albums, including the Americana leaning G.N. and more impressionistic (in places) Printer’s Devil, already showcased Steiner’s songwriting prowess.

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