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The 1975 Try Everything on 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships'

A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships ends up being a middling mess of genre-hopping. The 1975 decided to try a bit of everything and the results are just completely scattershot songs.

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Karen Alexander, Star-in-waiting at Asylum Records

Asylum Records was famously home to the finest singer/songwriters of the '70s, including Joni Mitchell and Judee Sill. But, as a Japanese reissue of another woman's work proves, some of its biggest talents went unnoticed. Charles Donovan talks to Karen Alexander.

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20 Questions: The Mowgli's

The Mowgli's are continuing their quest to write the catchiest, most memorable pop songs that have continue to fly under the radar, and as their newest EP teases, they're continuing to crack the code -- one anthem at a time.

Evan Sawdey

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Fastball Issues Expanded Edition of Classic 1998 Album, Including Early Version of "Fire Escape" (premiere + interview)

Twenty years on Fastball's All the Pain Money Can Buy remains strong. The trio's Tony Scalzo looks back on chart success and the inevitable hard times that followed.

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Meg Myers' 'Take Me to the Disco' Is Brimming with Anthems for the Lonely and Neglected

Meg Myers' Take Me to the Disco creates common ground out of a melancholy that builds camaraderie rather than pity.

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Swing Out Sister: Album by Album Guide

Swing Out Sister's Corinne Drewery guides us through 30 years of the enduring, poly-genre duo's work.

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On 'Wide Awake', Rayland Baxter Makes a Masterful Play for the Pop-rock Middle

Rayland Baxter's third album on ATO is all semi-sunny 1960s rock recalling Dr. Dog, Fruit Bats, and Beck.

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Panic! at the Disco Goes All Baz Luhrmann on 'Pray for the Wicked'

Pray for the Wicked is undeniably a modern pop record, but the lights of Broadway linger in these 11 brief songs.

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How Wrestling Saved Kate Nash and Inspired Her New Album

From forming her own record label to starring on the hit Netflix series GLOW, Kate Nash seemingly has it all, but still can't get over a goat named Black Phillip.

Jose Solís

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Yacht Rock Makes a Comeback with the Re-Issue of Robbie Dupree's First Two Records

The 1980s yacht-rocker Robbie Dupree gets the remastered reissue treatment from a new label.

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My Silent Bravery Recalls What It's Like to Be "18" (premiere)

My Silent Bravery's new video "18" gets sentimental for the 1980s and some classic cinema tropes of the era.

Jedd Beaudoin

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Gin Wigmore's "Hallow Fate" Serves As Excellent Preview of New LP, 'Ivory' (premiere)

Gin Wigmore's "Hallow Fate" further solidifies her reputation as an artist capable of incredibly soulful passages that haunt the listener long after the final note has fallen into decay.

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Grand Am Embraces Darkness With "In the Air Tonight" (premiere)

The Phil Collins classic "In the Air Tonight" gets a new take from TV/film-minded duo Grand Am.

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'The Neighbourhood' Is About What It's Like to Be in the Neighbourhood

The sad-eyed boys of the Neighbourhood have made an album about being in the Neighbourhood.

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The Aces Hit the Fillmore and Darlingside Return to the Great American Music Hall

Buzzy pop rock group the Aces make their San Francisco debut on one of its most coveted stages while down the road, indie folk mavens Darlingside go back to the venue that informed their latest LP.

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Jewels for the Queen: Tina Turner's Lifetime of Grammy Gold

As the Recording Academy prepares to honor Tina Turner with a 2018 "Lifetime Achievement Award", PopMatters celebrates the Queen of Rock's legacy of golden gramophones.

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