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Is a Different Kind of Paradigm Driving Jazz These Days?

Jazz musicians are releasing their music in smaller batches. An interview with rising saxophonist Jonathan Greenstein and Mack Avenue Records President Denny Stilwell about how EPs fit into jazz creativity and jazz economy.

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Common Deer - "Glass" (video) (premiere)

This latest offering from the Canadian "orchestral indie" quintet is a charming and somber gem.

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In 1999, Azeem recorded his underground classic Garage Opera, hip-hop's equivalent of garage rock.

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Twenty years later, the New York foursome's new EP does little more than make long-time fans yearn for their older material.

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Western Education: Restless Dreams

Western Education draw on the sounds of their youth for their latest EP.

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See Gulls: Curtain Call

See Gulls offer up another impressively expansive EP with Curtain Call, one that stretches out both its sound and its emotional impact.

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Dierks Bentley: Riser

A stripped down version of this overwrought and over-weighted album could have provided a way out of Nashville's doldrums.

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Ash Borer: Bloodlands

For any black metal to be effective it needs to meet two simple artistic requirements: create a credible atmosphere and convey the ill-tempered emotion therein. Ash Borer doesn't simply communicate those elements; it enshrouds the listener in them.

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Erika Spring: EP

EP isn't too far removed from Au Revoir Simone, but Erika Spring as a solo entity is still a trip worth exploring.

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Avalanche City: Love Love Love

New Zealand's Avalanche City already have a No. 1 single with "Love Love Love". The EP of the same name proves that's not a fluke.

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Wazu: Wazu

Wazu's self-titled EP is an intriguing blend of dark electro-pop that owes as much to Hot Chip as it does to New Order.

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Speakers' debut EP is an overtly accessible set of songs that touches on some current trends but fails to be memorable.

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The Raveonettes: Into the Night

The Danish duo return to form and deliver some of their most compelling material in recent memory.

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"Natural born liberal consumer of music", Jarrel Lowman (aka L.A.Z), talks about his EP, No Paperwork, a mixture of hip-hop, smoking jazz, and calloused-fingered blues.

Jazz musicians are releasing their music in smaller batches. An interview with rising saxophonist Jonathan Greenstein and Mack Avenue Records President Denny Stilwell about how EPs fit into jazz creativity and jazz economy.

This latest offering from the Canadian "orchestral indie" quintet is a charming and somber gem.

In 1999, Azeem recorded his underground classic Garage Opera, hip-hop's equivalent of garage rock.

Maestro Gamin’s latest venture with producer Books One, Miracle Work Medicine, sees a return to Daisy Age hip-hop.

Twenty years later, the New York foursome's new EP does little more than make long-time fans yearn for their older material.

Former Prince collaborator Andre Cymone delivers a deftly executed and sobering set of protest songs for the modern age with Black Man in America.

Western Education draw on the sounds of their youth for their latest EP.

See Gulls offer up another impressively expansive EP with Curtain Call, one that stretches out both its sound and its emotional impact.

A stripped down version of this overwrought and over-weighted album could have provided a way out of Nashville's doldrums.

For any black metal to be effective it needs to meet two simple artistic requirements: create a credible atmosphere and convey the ill-tempered emotion therein. Ash Borer doesn't simply communicate those elements; it enshrouds the listener in them.

EP isn't too far removed from Au Revoir Simone, but Erika Spring as a solo entity is still a trip worth exploring.

New Zealand's Avalanche City already have a No. 1 single with "Love Love Love". The EP of the same name proves that's not a fluke.

Wazu's self-titled EP is an intriguing blend of dark electro-pop that owes as much to Hot Chip as it does to New Order.

Speakers' debut EP is an overtly accessible set of songs that touches on some current trends but fails to be memorable.

The Danish duo return to form and deliver some of their most compelling material in recent memory.