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Album Review: Perfume Genius – Set My Heart On Fire Immediately

Andy JohnstonMay 15, 2020

The music Mike Hadreas has been making as Perfume Genius over the past 10 years has never exactly been short on feeling. One listen to his quiveringly fragile ...

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Album Review: Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open

Rob HakimianMay 1, 2020

Even back when he would sit in his car to record vocals for the earliest Car Seat Headrest albums, Will Toledo thought about his music in widescreen. This was ...

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Yo La Tengo’s Electr-o-pura 25th Anniversary Edition announced with Lucy Dacus’ cover of “Tom Courtenay”

Rob HakimianApril 30, 2020

This Saturday, May 2, marks the 25th anniversary of Yo La Tengo's seventh album Electr-o-pura, and following the beautiful reissue of Painful from a few years ...

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Car Seat Headrest reveal epic slow-burner “There Must Be More Than Blood”

Rob HakimianApril 23, 2020

Just last week Car Seat Headrest shared the bombastic "Hollywood", but with little more than a week to go until the release of new album Making A Door Less Ope...

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Belle & Sebastian collaborate with fans for isolation-inspired audio-visual piece “Protecting the Hive”

Rob HakimianApril 21, 2020

We're all going through this together, that's the message Glaswegian favourites Belle & Sebastian are sending out to the world as they continue to stay cre...

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