Mar 28, 2024
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I remember sitting in a Nottingham, England bar with Mark Gardener nearly 10 years ago when the Ride singer/guitarist told me the iconic ’90s shoegaze band were reforming.
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Mar 27, 2024
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Reissued on vinyl for the band’s 40th anniversary, The Cult’s 1984 debut, Dreamtime, finds the band hitting the ground running, while also poised for greater heights.
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Mar 26, 2024
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Rosali Middleman’s fourth album finds her relocated to North Carolina and comfortably taking up the Merge roster slot left open by Waxahatchee’s departure.
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Mar 25, 2024
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The mid-’80s were awash in action verb titled albums with the likes of INXS’ Kick, The Human League’s Crash, and the more obscure Van Dyke Parks’ Jump!. Aside from sharing the call to get moving, Sam Evian’s fourth solo album, Plunge, has little in common with the referenced albums.
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Mar 22, 2024
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Similar to Emily Sprague’s self-titled Florist album of a few years back, Adrianne Lenker’s woodshed approach on Bright Future brings warm and wonderful results.
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Mar 21, 2024
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Sticking with producer Brad Cook from Waxahatchee’s revelatory Saint Cloud, Katie Crutchfield continues her exploration of alt-country trails on Tigers Blood.
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Mar 20, 2024
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Rock chameleons Elbow are always looking to push the envelope and explore new directions regardless of genre, as long as the outcome is great music.
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Mar 18, 2024
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It’s been 15 long years since The Black Crowes have released an album, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson seeming to have parted for good after the release of 2009’s Before the Frost…Until the Freeze.
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