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Legendary Japanese experimental rockers Boris are currently celebrating their 30th anniversary, and today they released their third Heavy Rocks LP and second full-length of the year, Heavy Rocks (2022). Last week the band dropped their third single and video from the album (“My name is blank”) and later this...
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After releasing Mood Valiant, their first new LP in six years, last year to profound critical acclaim, Australian jazz/funk outfit Hiatus Kaiyote are currently on a massive US tour, with an already-sold-out show this Sunday, August 7th, at Union Transfer. Additionally, Hiatus Kaiyote bassist Paul Bender released his first...
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This Friday, July 29th, gothic Western outfit Murder by Death will be releasing their ninth studio LP, Spell/Bound, which frontman Adam Turla tells me he is exceptionally excited about, during a recent phone chat: “I am really proud of this one.” Like most albums being released these days, Turla...
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Having released their third LP, WOMB, in April of 2020, “future pop” connoisseurs Purity Ring never got a chance to properly tour the album’s songs, which each serve as a coming-of-age tale of a female protagonist as they are forced to face the deepest-cutting traumas of modernism, which Pitchfork...
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This month 4AD brought the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection a few of its best shows, including post-punk revivalists Dry Cleaning at First Unitarian Church and neo glam rockers The Lemon Twigs at Underground Arts. And next Friday, June 10th, 4AD recording artist Aldous Harding will be...
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Although MØ’s recent stop at Union Transfer last Wednesday (April 13th) didn’t leave quite the impression on the city as a whole that Waxahatchee’s two sold-out shows at the venue did earlier that week, for the modest crowd in attendance, the hour-long performance seemed to pack a profoundly satisfying...
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“I’ve been looking forward to this show for so long, for years now,” said Katie Crutchfield, better known as Waxahatchee, four songs into her set last Sunday night, before launching into “The Eye” off of the indie rock singer/songwriter’s 2020 album Saint Cloud. The performance was the first of...
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Grungy, garage-y alternative rockers Slothrust have been playing the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection for about a decade now, from house shows to the mega-stage of The Fillmore, where they opened for Manchester Orchestra last October. Last September the Boston band released their fifth full-length, Parallel Timeline,...
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Last week Lindsey Jordan, better known as Snail Mail, played her first post-lockdown show at Idaho’s Treefort Music Festival. The performance was the first since Snail Mail’s critically acclaimed sophomore LP, Valentine, and since Lindsey had surgery to correct vocal cord polyps, which delayed the tour. However, the album,...
Legendary Japanese experimental rockers Boris are currently celebrating their 30th anniversary, and today they released their third Heavy Rocks LP and second full-length of the year, Heavy Rocks (2022). Last week the band dropped their third single and video from the album (“My name is blank”) and later this...
After releasing Mood Valiant, their first new LP in six years, last year to profound critical acclaim, Australian jazz/funk outfit Hiatus Kaiyote are currently on a massive US tour, with an already-sold-out show this Sunday, August 7th, at Union Transfer. Additionally, Hiatus Kaiyote bassist Paul Bender released his first...
