Lars Gotrich
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Here the clipped guitars and tight drumming of the original Strokes' song are exploded into the kind of Replacements-y thrust of Touché Amoré's finest moments.
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Headbanging riffs, symphonic keys and blast beats heave from the "yawning abyss," but counter with honest-to-Gaia hooks.
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Recorded outdoors on a four-track, Canary Room's Maddy Heide thinks out loud about the way seasons change in a person, and how you love them anyway.
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Tobacco City's debut album out today — Tobacco City, USA — mixes cosmic country with psychedelic choogle, but "Never On My Mind" ... well, that's where the honky tonk meets the soul revue.
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Liz Harris returns with the first single from Grouper's upcoming full-length album, Shade.
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Like her 2014 debut, Gendron imbues this traditional French song with a somber, sepia-toned smoke that summons the past with affection and ache.
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On "Disappearing," Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker of Low sing in harmonies that quell the deepest doubts and soothe the savage heart.
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The Innocence Mission singer and guitarist nestles into the corners of beauty, articulating images and ideas just out of view.
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Join us in an online listening party for Christone "Kingfish" Ingram's new album. With Gwen Thompkins in the host chair, we'll feature a live conversation with the blues guitarist.
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In songwriting that stretches our notions of Iron Maiden, "The Writing on the Wall" signals hope for after the apocalypse with animation just as epic.