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By all rights, MMM-MMMP3s should do a Top 10 tracks of the year instead of Top 10 albums. But there are too many great songs to go around — a Top 10 Songs is a sucker’s move. So we’ve put together a Top 10 album list using the handy...
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There’s a tendency when it comes to music journalists to describe independent artists with country/gospel/folk influences as alt-country, or alt-Americana. If there was ever any sense to that "alt" qualification, it’s getting harder & harder to see in the present day. The Flint, MI band Small Houses capitalizes on...
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After EP releases here & there (including the Keyboard EP), plus a past life as the impossible-to-pronounce former band Renmibi, Magnetic Island are finally unveiling their full length debut. It’s a self-titled "how do you do?" that captures all the Sonic Youth-esque garage blitzpop that we love about the...
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Fans of Postal Service will vibe on some of the electropop stylings of State Shirt’s latest Let’s Get Bloody. The entire production sounds like it was recorded beneath the lofty stone arches of a Gothic cathedral: polyphonic choral breakdowns, echoes & reverbs & strange twists of sound, and the...
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Black Books has a new album coming soon, a full-length self-titled release following on the heels of their well-received EP An Introduction To… The introductions have been made; now it’s time to sit down and really get acquainted with this Texas band that puts their own spin on alt-Americana,...
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The Portland-based Parenthetical Girls have a little holiday cheer to spread. Christmas, to be exact. That’s right. No pussy footing around the hegemonic discourse issue, no perfunctory nod to Hannukah or Kwanzaa. Just straight up "Christ was born" shit. One thing Christmas music has going for it, over and...
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The latest LP Our Bodies Are Machines from Phoenix-based artist Yojimbo Billions is a far out electro jazz freakout served in ready-to-eat bite-sized portions. Electricity is tasty, homie. Our featured track "Final Voyage" is every bit as epic as the title. Delicate layers of synth establish the mood, which...
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QRO is a big fan of Canada’s Sean Nicholas Savage and his label Arbutus Records. Good stuff all around. Plus, a tidy bit of their catalog is available for free download, so stream here & see what goodies you can pick up at the site. Savage’s latest release is...
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Dense rhythms with a light touch & a kaleidoscopic spectrum of synthesized brouhaha enliven the latest release by Wolf In a Spacesuit: the full-length Safari: Sea of Doors. Appropriate title. The album is a sort of journey with countless doors opening and closing on tidal wave vistas of sonic...
There’s a tendency when it comes to music journalists to describe independent artists with country/gospel/folk influences as alt-country, or alt-Americana. If there was ever any sense to that "alt" qualification, it’s getting harder & harder to see in the present day. The Flint, MI band Small Houses capitalizes on...
After EP releases here & there (including the Keyboard EP), plus a past life as the impossible-to-pronounce former band Renmibi, Magnetic Island are finally unveiling their full length debut. It’s a self-titled "how do you do?" that captures all the Sonic Youth-esque garage blitzpop that we love about the...
Fans of Postal Service will vibe on some of the electropop stylings of State Shirt’s latest Let’s Get Bloody. The entire production sounds like it was recorded beneath the lofty stone arches of a Gothic cathedral: polyphonic choral breakdowns, echoes & reverbs & strange twists of sound, and the...
Black Books has a new album coming soon, a full-length self-titled release following on the heels of their well-received EP An Introduction To… The introductions have been made; now it’s time to sit down and really get acquainted with this Texas band that puts their own spin on alt-Americana,...
The Portland-based Parenthetical Girls have a little holiday cheer to spread. Christmas, to be exact. That’s right. No pussy footing around the hegemonic discourse issue, no perfunctory nod to Hannukah or Kwanzaa. Just straight up "Christ was born" shit. One thing Christmas music has going for it, over and...
The latest LP Our Bodies Are Machines from Phoenix-based artist Yojimbo Billions is a far out electro jazz freakout served in ready-to-eat bite-sized portions. Electricity is tasty, homie. Our featured track "Final Voyage" is every bit as epic as the title. Delicate layers of synth establish the mood, which...
QRO is a big fan of Canada’s Sean Nicholas Savage and his label Arbutus Records. Good stuff all around. Plus, a tidy bit of their catalog is available for free download, so stream here & see what goodies you can pick up at the site. Savage’s latest release is...
Dense rhythms with a light touch & a kaleidoscopic spectrum of synthesized brouhaha enliven the latest release by Wolf In a Spacesuit: the full-length Safari: Sea of Doors. Appropriate title. The album is a sort of journey with countless doors opening and closing on tidal wave vistas of sonic...