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A Place To Bury Strangers – “Where Are We Now?”
On the latest highlight from their forthcoming rarities and B-sides collection, the longstanding NYC wall of sound are opening unexplored doors to new feelings of strangeness by peering at their past from today.
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Lightning Bolt – “CLOUD CORE”
If there’s a deep black hole somewhere out there slowly sucking us all in, the legendary noisenik freaks haven’t reached it yet, and thank whatever for that.
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Recommended Album: Kim Gordon – ‘PLAY ME’
The third solo LP from the avant culture iconoclast sees the end of everything on the horizon and gets swept up in the whirring white noise of it all.
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ELUCID & Sebb Bash – “Coonspeak”
A human highlight reel in rap headcrack and mindmelt off the Armand Hammer experimental arm’s newly-released collaborative with producer Sebb Bash.
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MIKE, Earl Sweatshirt & SURF GANG – “Minty” / “Earth”
With the first two previews from their collaborative double LP with SURF GANG, MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt don’t need to show boat when their natural chemistry glows radiant.
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Irreversible Entanglements feat. Helado Negro – “Juntos Vencemos”
There’s a power to not only the voice of the people, but the sound they make as the experimental free jazz band attests in bringing their collective energy together.
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Recommended Album: Sarah Bell Reid – ‘Manifold’
The quadrophonic sound sculpture from the Canadian experimental composer plays like an observational commentary on today’s upward trend in sensory-overloaded music.
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Recommended Album: CEREMONY – ‘Live At The Hollywood Palladium’
This 2024 live recording of ‘Rohnert Park’ isn’t just marking one specific moment in the hardcore punk band’s past, but celebrates the entirety of the timeline, still letting it move them forward today.
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Koyo – “What I’m Worth”
The Long Island melodic hardcore band steers down one of its darker roads in antithesis against the dream life on the latest preview off ‘Barely There’.
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Drug Church – “Pynch”
Patrick Kindlon’s love language is screaming down the void through a blistering alternative hardcore anthem.