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Calexico and Iron & Wine Find New Ground on 'Years to Burn'
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19 Jun 2019
Tacocat Blesses This Mess
Seattle's Tacocat returns with This Mess Is a Place, a stellar new album in which the band confronts existential crisis and embraces widescreen guitar-based pop.
29 May 2019
20 Questions: Porter Ray
Quiet and thoughtful, yet nimble in his poetic applications, hip-hop artist Porter Ray has much to say in our 20 Questions feature.
09 May 2019
Weyes Blood Gets Cinematic on 'Titanic Rising'
Weyes Blood (a.k.a. Natalie Mering) conjures up a beautiful, cinematic world through with her insightful songwriting on Titanic Rising.
16 Apr 2019
Perfect Son Blows Warmly Reflective Electronic Breezes on Debut LP 'Cast'
Cast is a deeply moving and harmonious introduction to electropop mastermind Tobiasz Biliński's latest persona, Perfect Son.
14 Feb 2019
Two New Re-Issues Show How Green River Could Have Become the First Superstars of Grunge
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08 Feb 2019
J Mascis Returns with Another Subtle Work in 'Elastic Days'
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Kyle Craft Goes Widescreen with the Set in the '70s 'Full Circle Nightmare'
On his sophomore effort, Kyle Craft creates an album from another era that still manages to sound fresh, unique and inspired.
26 Jan 2018
Kyle Craft - "The Rager" (track review)
In the official video for Kyle Craft's "The Rager", the singer/songwriter brings a sense of poetic tragedy to an intoxicating folk ballad.
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Metz: Strange Peace
On the band's third album, there is a constant search for a frequency that is thrilling and a commitment to it.
20 Sep 2017
Iron & Wine: Beast Epic
Sam Beam returns to his roots with a warm acoustic record which is often understated but packed with emotional power and arguably his strongest vocal performance to date
27 Aug 2017
The Afghan Whigs: In Spades
On their second reunion album, the Afghan Whigs craft a layered exploration of the fluid nature of memory and how experiences shape us as individuals.
30 Apr 2017
Porter Ray: Watercolor
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20 Apr 2017
Morgan Delt: Phase Zero
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