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Maher Shalal Hash Baz Return With Hello, New York

A project formed in the mid-’80s by Tori Kudo and Reiko Kudo in Japan, Maher Shalal Hash Baz has evolved and gone through a number of transformations with a consistently rotating cast of band members. Hello, New York, the group’s first release since 2009, was created while the band was visiting New York City for […]
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The So So Glos Share Some Market Hotel Memories

While living off of meager meals and huddling together for warmth during a brutal winter, Brooklyn vets The So So Glos put together what little resources they had to build Market Hotel. They return to their beloved spot this Saturday with Big Ups, Honduras and Bueno and will be running a #FeedTheStreet food drive for […]
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Check Out Beef Jerk’s Recipe for “Soup of The Onion”

Though associated with the Australian “dolewave” scene, a joke genre descriptor for artists like Dick Diver or Courtney Barnett that offer jangly guitars and relaxed melodies, Beef Jerk add a bit of jazz influence to the mix. While the band obviously benefits from serious pop songwriting chops, on “Soup of the Onion,” Millie Hall’s saxophone […]
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G.L.O.S.S. Releases Trans Day Of Revenge

The recent massacre in Orlando was the most extreme use of violence against the L.G.B.T. community in U.S. history. Lashing out at a culture where L.G.B.T. people are more likely to be targets of hate crimes than any other minority group, the Olympia-based hardcore band G.L.O.S.S. have released Trans Day Of Revenge, their first new music since […]
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Stream Jerry Paper’s Latest LP, Toon Time Raw!

Jerry Paper is the internet experience brought to life by mastermind Lucas W. Nathan, who leans into charming absurdity under a genre he describes on his Bandcamp page as “11th dimension pop.” Blending MIDI sounds with catchy keyboard hooks, the L.A.-based songwriter has been creating heartwarming, outlandish pop for years, and has garnered an abounding […]
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Kel Valhaal (Hunter Hunt-Hendrix) Shares Hallucinatory New Video

As to be expected from a Hunter Hunt-Hendrix project, Kel Valhaal has lofty aims. In an explanatory statement, the artist alludes to Transcendental Qabala, Gesamtkunstwerk, a modern reworking of Perichoresis, and a multitude of artistic media and genres. It can sound heavy-handed,  like basically every philosophy even peripherally influenced by The Hermetic Order of the […]
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People Skills Capture Sound of Emotional Ambiguity on “Blight”

Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks, the title of the newest offering from Jesse Dewlow’s People Skills project, carries the timekeeping association of a journal. The title, it turns out, is perhaps the most determinate aspect of Dewlow’s recent tape, whose inscrutable vocals and ambling tempos are as raw and unsettled as the emotional content […]
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Nerftoss Lets Loose on New Cassette

For Batlimore native John Jones, this freewheeling atmosphere of internet-era music production and appreciation has allowed him to try on the trappings of lo-fi folk, drone, and Krautrock, all under the name Nerftoss. (Not to mention his work riding the thunder stick for noise rock band Dope Body.) Jones’s latest Nerftoss missive Crushed finds him working with […]
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Aaron Dilloway and Bill Nace Team Up for the BAND EP

“The slower the clock, the nearer it approximated the infinitely gradual and majestic progression of cosmic time.” Such is the line by J.G. Ballard quoted by Matt Krefting as a metaphor for BAND EP, two collaborative 13-minute tracks between Aaron Dilloway and Bill Nace, originally released as a cassette on Krefting’s Silver Lining label last year. […]
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Alex G and Rachel Giannascoli Talk About Beach Music, Artistic Development, and Vincent Van Gogh

Siblings Alex G and Rachel Giannascoli talk about their seamless creative partnership.
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