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It’s hot. Much like you, I am boiling in a heatwave that has thoroughly cooked my brain. So let’s take a break from the smart stuff and play a game. How well can you navigate Encyclopaedia Metallum? I have a challenge to test your skills. It’s a cross between competitive bingo and a scavenger hunt for people who like Black Sabbath,  » Read More

Starting in 2015, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy have periodically gotten a bunch of their friends together to perform a famous album in full in Chicago. They began with the Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead, in 2021, they did Neil Young’s Zuma, and earlier this year they did the Modern Lovers’  » Read More

If you feel a great sense of emptiness this morning, I understand, and I sympathize. I feel the same way. The third season of The Righteous Gemstones, Danny McBride’s wonderful HBO show, has reached its triumphant conclusion, and now we don’t get to look forward to the show anymore.  » Read More

Earlier this year, the perpetually underrated Los Angeles psychedelic pop group Death Vally Girls released Islands In The Sky, the album that is currently sitting on top of my record player. It sounds like Thee Heatcoatees animorphing into Stereolab, and it’s awesome. Today, the band announces plans to tour Europe and Mexico,  » Read More

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For a long time, you couldn’t go more than a few months without getting a new Self Defense Family record. Self Defense, a revolving-lineup band built around singer Patrick Kindlon, were a prolific cult force, and you had to be a dedicated head to keep up with all of it. (One of the band’s members,  » Read More

Back in 2016, the legendary avant-garde composer William Basinski teamed up with his studio assistant Preston Wendel and recorded a bunch of lively, lounge-y songs for a project that would end up being known as Sparkle Division. They sat on the material until 2020, however, when they finally released those songs as an album,  » Read More

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L.A-based punk band The Linda Lindas have shared a video for their new song, “Resolution/Revolution.”  » Read More