Conceived as a gift for fans who pre-ordered the new Angles LP, the Strokes' video for mellow album track "Call Me Back" features slow motion water droplets and a pretty girl. Need more be said?
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Dancing in the Street: Our 25 Favorite Motown Singles
Detroit's Motown Records will forever be important as both a hit factory and an African American-owned label that achieved massive mainstream success and influence. We select our 25 favorite singles from the "Sound of Young America".
05 Jun 2020
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The Durutti Column's 'Vini Reilly' Is the Post-Punk's Band's Definitive Statement
Mancunian guitarist/texturalist Vini Reilly parlayed the momentum from his famous Morrissey collaboration into an essential, definitive statement for the Durutti Column.
05 Jun 2020
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
What Will Come? COVID-19 and the Politics of Economic Depression
The financial crash of 2008-2010 reemphasized that traumatic economic shifts drive political change, so what might we imagine — or fear — will emerge from the COVID-19 depression?
05 Jun 2020
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Datura4 Take Us Down the "West Coast Highway Cosmic" (premiere)
Australia's Datura4 deliver a highway anthem for a new generation with "West Coast Highway Cosmic". Take a trip without leaving the couch.
05 Jun 2020
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Teddy Thompson Sings About Love on 'Heartbreaker Please'
Teddy Thompson's Heartbreaker Please raises one's spirits by accepting the end as a new beginning. He's re-joining the world and out looking for love.
05 Jun 2020
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
Little Protests Everywhere
Wherever you are, let's invite our neighbors not to look away from police violence against African Americans and others. Let's encourage them not to forget about George Floyd and so many before him.
05 Jun 2020
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Carey Mercer's New Band Soft Plastics Score Big with Debut '5 Dreams'
Two years after Frog Eyes dissolved, Carey Mercer is back with a new band, Soft Plastics. 5 Dreams and Mercer's surreal sense of incongruity should be welcomed with open arms and open ears.
05 Jun 2020
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Sondre Lerche Rewards 'Patience' with Clever and Sophisticated Indie Pop
Patience joins its predecessors, Please and Pleasure, to form a loose trilogy that stands as the finest work of Sondre Lerche's career.
05 Jun 2020
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Ruben Fleischer's 'Venom' Has No Bite
Ruben Fleischer's toothless antihero film, Venom is like a blockbuster from 15 years earlier: one-dimensional, loose plot, inconsistent tone, and packaged in the least-offensive, most mass appeal way possible. Sigh.
05 Jun 2020
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Cordelia Strube's 'Misconduct of the Heart' Palpitates with Dysfunction
Cordelia Strube's 11th novel, Misconduct of the Heart, depicts trauma survivors in a form that's compelling but difficult to digest.
04 Jun 2020
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Reaching For the Vibe: Sonic Boom Fears for the Planet on 'All Things Being Equal'
Sonic Boom is Peter Kember, a veteran of 1980s indie space rockers Spacemen 3, as well as Spectrum, E.A.R., and a whole bunch of other fascinating stuff. On his first solo album in 30 years, he urges us all to take our foot off the gas pedal.
04 Jun 2020
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Old British Films, Boring? Pshaw!
The passage of time tends to make old films more interesting, such as these seven films of the late '40s and '50s from British directors John Boulting, Carol Reed, David Lean, Anthony Kimmins, Charles Frend, Guy Hamilton, and Leslie Norman.
04 Jun 2020
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