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Album Review: Ducktails – The Flower Lane

Josh Becker·January 31, 2013

Woozy guitar lines, simple pop structures, ambiguously nostalgic vocals–must be a new Real Estate album! Oh, wait, it’s...

Will Ryan·January 30, 2013

Musically speaking, Los Angeles was a much different place in 2009. Flying Lotus’ 2007’s album-length love letter to...

Ray Finlayson·January 30, 2013

When Spencer Krug released his 2011 album Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped under his Moonface moniker,...

Joshua Pickard·January 29, 2013

Whether you enjoy Sonny Smith’s surf-inspired rock with Sonny & the Sunsets or feel that it’s a little...

Brendan Frank·January 28, 2013

Compare them to whomever you will, Local Natives are coming into their own. Over the past few years,...

Joshua Pickard·January 28, 2013

What happens when an artist is carried along on a tide of musical criticism and useless labeling? Since...

Joshua Pickard·January 25, 2013

David Hartley knows how to put a high-gloss shine on his music. Oak Island, his debut album as...

Rob Hakimian·January 25, 2013

Violet Cries, the title of Esben and the Witch’s debut album, is a nice summation of the sound...

Ray Finlayson·January 24, 2013

In the cooking pot of electronic music simmering away for the past decade or so, Matthew Herbert has...

Will Ryan·January 23, 2013

New York producer, FaltyDL, is an entity in constant flux. Since landing on Ninja Tune in 2011 his...