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Tkay Maidza returns with raucous energy by way of “Syrup”

Chase McMullenApril 8, 2021

Tkay Maidza didn't come to play. She doesn't even have the time for it. The Zimbabwe-born, Australia-raised artist continues to rise on the back of a recent sl...

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Album Review: Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg

Tim SentzApril 6, 2021

Forging a new path down the post-punk trail, London’s Dry Cleaning aren’t too concerned about whether their music is easy on the ears or not. The foursome use ...

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Album Review: Tune-Yards – sketchy.

Jeremy J. FisetteApril 1, 2021

Alongside the liner notes included with the vinyl edition of Merrill Garbus’s 2009 debut album as Tune-Yards, Bird-Brains, there’s a little card that reads (a...

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Dry Cleaning offer another brilliantly sardonic single, “Unsmart Lady”

Rob HMarch 30, 2021

London masters of self-inflicting snark Dry Cleaning are releasing their debut album New Long Leg this Friday, April 2. We've already heard "Scratchcard Lanyar...

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Erika de Casier gives in to her theatrical tendencies on the slinky “Drama”

Rob HMarch 2, 2021

Copenhagen artist Erika de Casier has shared a new song called "Drama", which follows up last year's "No Butterflies, No Nothing". Describing the inspiration f...

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Dry Cleaning deliver the creeping groove “Strong Feelings” and announce debut album

Rob HFebruary 9, 2021

London quartet Dry Cleaning have followed up last year's firecracker single "Scratchcard Lanyard" with the news of their debut album: it's called New Long Leg ...

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U.S. Girls present their anti-consumerist festive offering “Santa Stay Home”

Rob HNovember 30, 2020

Meg Remy aka U.S. Girls started 2020 by releasing the brilliant Heavy Light and they're finishing it with a festive special – although "Santa Stay Home" is not...

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Dry Cleaning are bemused and benumbed on the searing “Scratchcard Lanyard”

Rob HNovember 19, 2020

London's post-punks par excellence Dry Cleaning have recently signed to 4AD, with a debut album projected for early next year, but today they have delivered th...

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Helado Negro teams with Flock of Dimes for graciously hopeful cover of Neil Young’s “Lotta Love”

Rob HOctober 30, 2020

Like most of us, Roberto Carlos Lange aka Helado Negro is looking ahead to the imminent US Presidential Election with no shortage of hope and trepidation. With...

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Album Review: Adrianne Lenker – songs + instrumentals

Rob HakimianOctober 26, 2020

Big Thief always record in rural locations, but for her new record, their singer Adrianne Lenker went even more rustic. When she and the band were pulled off t...

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