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It’s Bigger than Hip Hop
25 years after their big break, Florida-based Dead Prez’s ideological drive cuts through the heart of context-relevant songwriting.
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The Cult Leader Album – Lie: The Love and Terror Cult
Charles Manson is one of the most notorious figures in pop culture history. His avant-psych style folk debut album is utter feces. This isn’t going to be a long retrospective album review that I would occasionally do with something like the Dismemberment Plan or Okkervil River. This is going to be more of a smaller…
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Tame Impala – Deadbeat (Record Review)
The acclaimed psychedelic music project of Australia-born Kevin Parker fully embraces his dance and electronica influence – for better or for worse.
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Taylor Swift’s Newest Album is a Poptimist Farce
Few albums have heralded the fall of mainstream excellence like the country/popstar’s latest disses and wangst.
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AFI – Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (Record Review)
One of the leading gothic rock bands in the 2000s went back to their old roots; their vision at the very least making up for overproduction.
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Geese – Getting Killed (Record Review)
The stalwart New Yorkers’ fifth album is immediately making headlines, its eclectic indie rock style standing firm in its sharp form.
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Under the Label – Shoegaze (Part 1 – Prototypes)
Like the Big Bang, one of the most unique alternative genres got its start as scattered energies waiting to pop in the right conditions.
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Titanic – Hagen (Record Review)
Mabe Fratti’s second album in the art pop project with her partner Hector Tosta piques artsy curiosity with restricted expressive virtuosity.
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Indonesian Protest Music
The country’s history with politically conscious music rings strong from the current government protests – one that could echo in Southeast Asia.
