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Album Review: Kevin Morby – Sundowner

Carlo ThomasOctober 20, 2020

Sundowner isn’t a quarantine album per se. After all, Kevin Morby wrote these songs in his hometown of Kansas City in 2018, in a backyard shed-turned-studio, u...

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Album Review: Slow Pulp – Moveys

Carlo ThomasOctober 14, 2020

Today, the idea of an inside joke seems almost implausible. It requires a shared experience, a “you had to be there” moment. Yet, most experiences are virtual,...

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Interview: Slow Pulp

Carlo ThomasOctober 9, 2020

With their debut album Moveys out today, we get the inside scoop on it from the Chicago dreampop quartet...

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Remain in Light at 40: A Celebration of Talking Heads’ landmark album

Rob Hakimian, Carlo Thomas, Kyle Kohner, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Harrison Suits Baer, John Wohlmacher and Michael CyrsOctober 8, 2020

Today marks 40 years since October 8, 1980, the release date of Talking Heads' era-defining fourth album Remain in Light. It's hard to believe that an album th...

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Album Review: Bob Mould – Blue Hearts

Carlo ThomasSeptember 28, 2020

Leave it to a rock veteran to set the record straight: this isn’t the first time a President has let a public health crisis go unchecked. It took President Ron...

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Kurt Vile duets with his late hero John Prine on “How Lucky” and announces EP

Carlo ThomasSeptember 24, 2020

Kurt Vile has announced the release of his latest EP, Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (ep), out digitally October 2nd. The five-song set is a love letter to some of Vi...

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Hedda Mae envisions life on the dancefloor on new single “Madness”

Carlo ThomasSeptember 4, 2020

Norweigan pop singer Hedda Mae has her work cut out, having planned to release a trilogy of EP releases, the first of which is out October 16. From w...

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Album Review: Belako – Plastic Drama

Carlo ThomasSeptember 1, 2020

Hard truths are, by definition, hard to admit. Essential is a euphemism for expendable. Convenient technology is possible thanks to cheap labor. Privilege dict...

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