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Listen: Max And The Moon – All I Know 27 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am
Back in May of 2012 we named southern California four-piece Max and the Moon Ones To Watch based on their light, insanely catchy debut EP, The Way I See, which reminded us of a bit folkier version of ...
Review/Listen: kandodo – k2o 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
As someone who’s taken a serious interest in this label over the last year or so, I have learned over time that the phrase, ‘Oh, X’s new album is coming out on Thrill Jockey is essentially shorthand f...
Review/Listen: College – Heritage 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Like many people, my first taste of College came from his song “A Real Hero”, which appeared in Nicolas Winding Refn’s ultra-slick, neo-noir film Drive in 2011. Featuring Electric Youth, the song has ...
Listen: JAGGA – Out of Control 26 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
There are songs that have the ability to stop the listener in their tracks. It’s normally an especially powerful moment in the song in question, maybe a key change, that stuns and leaves the listener ...
Review: Ty Segall – Sleeper 24 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Ty Segall’s Sleeper comes on the heels of a tumultuous year for the lo-fi musician that ended with the death of his father and estrangement from his mother. Matters of life and death have filtered thr...
Review/Listen: Julia Holter – Loud City Song 24 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
Can you run from the past? It’s a question that has befuddled thinkers of every field throughout the history of mankind, an internal struggle raging against the tyranny of time’s slow march forward. W...
Review/Listen: Shigeto – No Better Time Than Now 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Zach Saginaw has always had an appreciation for rhythm. It’s become a known fact over the course of a lifetime. A deeply felt appreciation for jazz and Motown through his father’s record collection ca...
Review/Listen: Pure Bathing Culture – Moon Tides 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
It’s well-documented that Pure Bathing Culture take extensive cues from the Cocteau Twins, but it can be easy while making note of their influences to ignore the more pressing question: How do they fi...
Review/Listen: Earl Sweatshirt – Doris 23 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
There’s an expression in basketball culture that fits when a player has a bit of a hot streak going in a game: “let him cook,” fans will say as this is happening, a plea to step back and let the playe...
Cass McCombs Announces New Album ‘Big Wheel And Others’, Streams New Song ‘There Can Only Be One’ 22 Aug 2013 | 09:50 pm
Prolific singer/songwriter Cass McCombs announced his “seventh-and-a-half” album today, titled Big Wheel and Others. It’s out October 15th (Octtober 14th in the UK) via Domino, and marks his first rel...
