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Earlier this year, the Edmonton band Home Front released their full-length debut Games Of Power. It’s a hard album to describe, and it’s one of my favorites of the year. Clint Frazier, one of Home Front’s two leaders, used to be in dance-punk also-rans Shout Out Out Out,  » Read More

After releasing his album Western Cum in June, Wand’s Cory Hanson returned early this month with new single “Western Cum.” Today the digital single is officially out, so we get to hear the B-side. “I Can’t Keep My Eyes Open” soars ahead with a real sense of purpose,  » Read More

The Texan bands Bedlocked and Teethe have a new split single out today as part of Saddle Creek’s Document series. In September we heard the Bedlocked side, a fuzzed-out slowcore track called “All Over Again.” Now Teethe’s contribution to the record is here. “Moon” is theoretically slowcore, but it moves with surprising pace,  » Read More

In 2009, superstar DJ A-Trak got together with house pioneer Armand Van Helden to form the super-duo Duck Sauce. A year later, Duck Sauce released the all-out monster banger “Barbra Streisand.” Duck Sauce went quiet after the release of their 2014 album Quack,  » Read More

When was the last time you encountered “Possum Kingdom” in the wild? Fort Worth alt-rockers Toadies scored an unlikely hit with their bouncy, crunchy serial-killer freakout in 1994. A few nights ago, that song came up on shuffle when I was stoned and walking my dogs, and I have to tell you,  » Read More

The Voidz are playing a Halloween residency at Brooklyn’s Murmrr Theatre next week. Ahead of those gigs, Julian Casablancas and friends have shared a new single. Unlike their other singles this year, the metallic “Prophecy Of The Dragon” and the woozy crawl “American Way,”  » Read More

Last month, Mitski released her muted, meditative album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We. On the day that the album came out, she also shared a video for “My Love Mine All Mine.” It’s a soft, countrified song, and it doesn’t sound much like a hit,  » Read More

When the Strokes debuted with Is This It in 2001, they were a breath of fresh air. By the time they returned with Room On Fire in 2003, they were the atmosphere.  » Read More

For the past few years, Scottish alt rock quartet Declan Welsh and The Decadent West have been building an explosive catalog of music, beginning first in the punk field but quickly incorporating an array of stylistic influences. The band debuted in 2019 with their album Cheaply Bought, Expensively Sold and quickly followed with a series of EPs,  » Read More