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Explaining or describing Urusei Yatsura is really a rough, lengthy, weird process, but really it is an approach....
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J Mascis’ new solo album, 'What Do We Do Now?', really seems to be a California-folk-scene release based on a promise or a premise of lifestyles in suburbia, but firmly rooted in “counter-culture”....
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Despite the album title, the wild 'Bastards (Deluxe Edition)', is a release for the working class people....
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Surely interesting already to fans or followers of alternative/art-rock is J Mascis’ soon to be solo album, What Do We Do Now?, as aside from touring Dinosaur Jr consistently, and a release in 2021 with the band (QRO review), and even prior to that a 2018 solo LP, splitting...
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From on the rise California iconoclastic, but recently recovered from illness, the drama-infused ambient guitars and vocal to key harmonies of Nic Hessler songs. Following the one pre-ailment release in 2015 is now, “I Know You Know”. Lyrics of course follow that line of though where “You Know”, and...
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For the record, J Mascis’ or Dinosaur Jr’s typical albums historically have some sense of the chip on the shoulder feeling of a stoner attitude, but generally they are also cerebral and tormented, really emotionally desperate. His most recent work both solo and Dinosaur Jr-wise has trended to acoustic-ballad-land...
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The Monochrome Set somehow managed to have collected a series of live recordings spanning all their eras....
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Recent noise rock and roll indie alternative band, aerial cosmonauts, Upper Wilds, play on socializing as a “rock, even hardcore-ish” musician on 'Venus'....
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Much like cosmic psychedelic music in general, Ripley Johnson and his Rose City Band always meet the qualifications of aural and ethereal jive....