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Interview: Stephen Pierce of Gold Dust On His Band’s New Album ‘The Late Great Gold Dust’
Stephen Piece talks his kinship between the band’s music and its surrounding nature, opening the door into the band’s scenic world with its cast of collaborators, and being loud as a softer facet of his sound.
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Recommended Album: AKAI SOLO – ‘Spirit Roaming’
The first release in collaboration with Backwoodz Studioz may be the Brooklyn’s rhymer’s most audibly compelling yet across a spectrum of color-and-mood-immersed production.
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They Are Gutting a Body of Water – “beauty lighter”
Wildly experimental treading across the spheres of amorphous dream-pop, rashes of shoegaze, and acerbic sampling, the Philly band follows through on threats of making a rap album in their own vision.
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MIKE – “What Do I Do?”
The New York City underground rapper is among the most agile at moving through life’s grief-stricken wooze on the second single from his forthcoming album, ‘Beware of the Monkey’.
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Pile – “Loops”
In spite of the mental tug of war, it sounds like Pile has found a new — albeit loud — groove within themselves. on the latest from their forthcoming album, ‘All Fiction’.
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Beauty Pill – “Fugue State Companion”
A bold reminder that art’s past will always be appreciated in a future lens from the seminal D.C. punk band’s forthcoming compilation, ‘Blue Period’.
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Smut – “Unbroken Thought”
A hopeful glow that is there as a placeholder for healing wounded hearts from the Chicago dream-pop band’s new album, ‘How the Light Felt’.
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Soul Blind – “Bruise the Sore”
The Hudson Valley grungegaze band completes the preview cycle behind their debut full-length with a hard impact.
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Recommended Album: Inclination – ‘Unaltered Perspective’
The Kentucky straight edge hardcore five-piece’s debut full-length delivers intentional intensity that hits the core of our everyday existences.
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Narrow Head – “Moments of Clarity”
The Houston heavy rockers open the sky to reveal an almost-spiritual awakening cracking through on the title track off their new album.
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Recommended Album: Backxwash – ‘HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING’
The final reckoning for the noise-rap artist’s trilogy goes an additional layer deep in its therapeutic catharsis.
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Caroline Polachek – “Sunset”
On her latest single, Polachek cruises smoothly into the romantic tinted skyline.