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Moss Icon: Complete Discography
If the name Moss Icon isn’t very familiar even to the most name-dropping rock nerds, distinctive elements of the hardcore band’s sound probably are. Moss Icon wasn’t a directly seminal group to later rough-edged
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Barış Manço: Dünden Bugüne, 2023, Sakla Samani, Gelir Zamani
Barış Manço’s name may not be instantly recognizable across most of the world, but he’s a legitimate musical superstar in Turkey. While measuring popularity through Facebook “likes” may not be an exact science, the
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Simian Mobile Disco: Unpatterns
That old chestnut about how “the only constant in life is change” applies particularly well to electronic music. Audiences demand creative evolution or they get bored. Change is necessary in order to stay one
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Dope Body: Natural History
Baltimore noise rock quartet Dope Body has been amassing a steady stream of confident releases since their debut EP in 2009. With a heavy dose of fuzz and a schizophrenic sense of rhythm and
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El-P: Cancer4Cure
In May 2009, Definitive Jux founder and cornerstone of independent hip-hop El-P suffered what could only be described as an apocalyptic hard drive crash. Having lost almost an entire year’s work of production for
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Exitmusic: Passage
New York City husband and wife duo Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church generated loads of buzz at South by Southwest earlier this year. This is an undeniably impressive feat, given that the indie market
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Mount Eerie: Clear Moon
It’s not often artists imbue their music with a sense of place as strongly as Mount Eerie’s (and formerly the Microphones’) Phil Elverum. Having already derived the band’s name from Mt. Erie, near Elverum’s
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Gravenhurst: The Ghost in Daylight
While Warp Records may be known primarily for the high quality of their electronic artists, they also have a noteworthy thing going with mannered, stylish art rock, perhaps exemplified by critical darlings Grizzly Bear.
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Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power (Deluxe Edition)
Like Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die or Judee Sill’s Heart Food, Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power presents a complete worldview. You sense the active minds of its creators, crafting an enclosed and self-contained world,
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Cornershop: Urban Turban
Fifteen years ago, songwriter and vocalist Tjinder Singh first proclaimed that “Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow” in Cornershop’s quintessential single “Brimful of Asha.” Now the band has released their eighth LP the
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