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Second Look: Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory

Kyle KohnerOctober 24, 2020

A few years before the dawn of a new century, the legendary Linkin Park made music under a couple of different names and with a different lead vocalist. But, i...

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Lauren Auder is magnificently loud and clear on new single “Quiet”

Kyle KohnerOctober 9, 2020

Exhaling with an ethereal breath that'll remind many of Scott Walker, Auder similarly accentuates every genre-bending layer of this track by imbuing it with heady lyrics that'll make almost anyone sit and listen with unflinching attention....

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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: Pet Shimmers – Trash Earthers

Kyle KohnerOctober 6, 2020

It's the advent of the apocalypse, and Bristol collective Pet Shimmers keep on truckin’. With their slept-on debut album Face Down in Meta released at the begi...

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Album Review: IDLES – Ultra Mono

Kyle KohnerSeptember 25, 2020

As children, we are innocently subjected to the sheer power of nursery rhymes. Yes, there is power in the very simplistic and innocent nature of "Twinkle, Twin...

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Lars and the Magic Mountain are galvanized by cosmic love on new single “Invincible” (BPM Premiere)

Kyle KohnerSeptember 17, 2020

With billowing strings and increasingly soaring backing vocals painting beautiful images of orange-kissed skies for the listener, Kroon's modest rumble cuts through the track's hypnotic grandeur and keeps us grounded and directed to the tangible romance of his words....

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“In A Rush” sees Twenty Committee slow it down to contemplate dysfunction (BPM Premiere)

Kyle KohnerSeptember 14, 2020

ominously looped cello, a cryptic piano lead, and crashing snares form a chaotic storm, setting up Rodger's beautifully salient vocals to cut through as the calm amidst it all. ...

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Hi, How Have You Been?: One Year Without Daniel Johnston

Kyle KohnerSeptember 11, 2020

In observance of this day, we spoke to nine artists, who have in one way or another, been profoundly struck by Daniel Johnston's art and overall nature. So we asked each artist just one question: "What has Daniel Johnston's music/art meant to you, one year since his passing, and has he/it shifted meaning since?"...

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Shame finally return with “Alphabet”, a blazing new follow-up single to their striking 2018 debut

Kyle KohnerSeptember 10, 2020

With disgusting guitars and an urgent drumbeat coursing through the track's veins, we see Shame's frontman Charlie Steen shed his evocatively low vocal register, ala Iceage's Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, for something more immediate, and less of a low-rolling hum....

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Gorillaz announce Song Machine project in full, continue to galvanize its star-studded lineup with Robert Smith on new single “Strange Timez”

Kyle KohnerSeptember 10, 2020

Albarn gives ample space to allow Smith and his ageless voice to drive home a simple but resonant chorus that works perfectly with what the Gorillaz founding father offers on his end....

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