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What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Alex LaheyAlex Lahey’s EP B-Grade University is the brightest indie rock soundtrack of a post-college quarter life crisis I’ve heard in quite some time. Whether it’s the “9-to-5 headache”of “Ivy league,” the romance of “Wes Anderson” and the exploration of relationships in “Let’s Go Out” and “You Don’t Think …

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“The Future’s Under Fire, The Past is Gaining Ground”

The great Japandroids are back, the Candian duo will release their new album Near To The Wild Heart Of Life in January 2017, available for pre-order on bandcamp. Already streaming is the title track off the record, and it speaks for itself.  http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2689128306/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/track=304902461/transparent=true/ I’m excited.

 “Fifteen years later and we’re still in the futureThe blood and money didn’t fix anythingWe’ve grown accustomed to the depths of the danger This is the future: severe and always happeningNo History is the first song of off Kevin Devine’s new record Instigator. The song is a sort of state of the dis_union 15 years after …

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The New Torres Album is Even Better than the Hype

The new Torres album Sprinter is even better than the  hype by NPR Music had me believe.Strange Hellos is still one of the biggest songs I’ve heard in quite a while with an amazing musical breadth and emotional depth.A Proper Polish Welcome is as intimate and enchanting on the record as it was as a …

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My old band, Union Hills, released one last EP yesterday, titled Mount Everest. Because reasons. 3 songs we loved to play live and that needed to be recorded properly. So so properly, it sounds so pro. Get all songs for free on our soundcloud profile, where you can also find our Spectacular EP. Enjoy.