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“Snitch Jacket” is a great new song by Two Inch Astronaut, offering, as Lars Gotrich for NPR Music puts it, “real talk – whether you’re a 20-something or just endlessly haunted by past failures.” Two Inch Astronaut is post-punk in the same way I’m post-graduate. Potentially professional, perennially yearning. Two Inch Astronaut’s new record “Can …
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The new Los Campesinos! single “5 Flucloxacillin” emits the kind of warmth need this January. Their new album is coming out late February.
fears run rampant in the streetsand in our homes of you and methe revolution won’t be on tvuntil there’s violence or death to seebut by then it’ll be too lateto turn the war into lovecause now it’s getting kind of hard to breatheand now my garden hose is a flame throweroh how could we be …
Bayuk – Old JuneLast night I went to see Me and My Drummer live at Kulturladen, Konstanz. Their show was great, and I loved the new material live more than I initially did when Love Is A Fridge came out earlier this year. (I love the band.)The true discovery of the evening, however, was the …
Hard-working orchestral folk punk band East Cameron Folkcore is releasing a lot of material in September. There is an all-new LP Better Off coming out in September (in Germany on Grand Hotel van Cleef) as is Fossils, an all-acoustic, live EP of older, truly stunning material. The EP is streaming on soundcloud now, and available for streaming …
my steps keep splitting my grief through these solipsistic moods i should call my parents when i think of them i should tell my friends when i love them maybe i should’ve got out a bit more when you guys where still in town but i got too caught up in my own shit that’s …
Earlier this year I wrote about what Beach Slang’s 2015 album The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us means to me. The band will soon release their next record A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings, and the first precursor is a song that is basically a description of my first year in …
Okkervill River – or rather, Will Sheff – have released a new song, “Okkervil River R.I.P.”, and as usual, it is beautiful, sad, and literary. Unfortunately, the upcoming release might be the last one. (ATO Records)
‘Most People’ is Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s contribution to a upcoming charity compilation Refugee that will benefit the Malta’s Migrant Offshore Aid Station. It’s also Will Oldham’s contribution to the whole refugee debate, in a sense. Refugee, a project by Scottish folk singer Robin Adams, will be released on June 3rd via BRAINFOG RECORDS.
We are not alone. We are not mistakesDon’t whisper now. We’re allowed to be loud Beach Slang’’s The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us. A punk record hasn’t felt this loud, intimate, and right since Muff Potter broke up. Just what I need now, as I discover that your early 30s are …
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