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• Bob Moses – I Ain’t Gonna Be The First To Cry

  

  The way the smoky, reverb-soaked guitar plucks of ”I Ain’t Gonna Be The First To Cry” hoovers over a subtle, deep bass groove doesn’t sound far removed from tha... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Lust For Youth – Armida

  

  If you’ve been following Swedish producer Hannes Norrvide’s Lust For Youth project, be prepared for a surprise. On his latest single “Armida” he takes, not... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Cold Specks – Absisto

  

  When your hear Al Spx – the Canadien singer/songwriter behind Cold Specks – sing on “Absisto”, it’s easy to understand why she was asked by Swans to lend her... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• White Lung – Face Down

  

  Metal riffs, rocket-speed drums, pop hooks and punk attitude. In less than three minutes, “Face down” delivers it all. It also marks the third must-listen in a... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Video: Arcade Fire – We Exist

  

  Reflektor remains a very polarizing record, and if you’ve read my review, you know where I stand on the subject. The band continues to tour the hell out of the... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Video: Mutual Benefit – Let’s Play’ / Statue of a Man

  

  Mutual Benefit has shared the video for “‘Let’s Play’/Statue of a Man”, one of many wonderful songs from last year’s stellar Love’s Crushing Diamond (#11 on thi... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Parquet Courts – Instant Disassembly

  

  Parquet Courts offer up the most melodic track yet off Sunbathing Animal, their upcoming new album. After the uncompromising title track and the almost equally... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Amen Dunes – Love

  

  Brooklyn-based musician Damon McMahon has since long created weird, but always interesting lo-fi music under the Amen Dunes moniker. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Fresh & Onlys – Who Let the Devil

  

  After the disappointing Long Slow Dance, “Animal of One” felt like a refreshing return for The Fresh Onlys. The new material they’ve been teasing us with... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• High Ends – The Weight

  

  It’s easy comparing ”The Weight” to any number of acts blending big 80’s pop hooks with lo-fi production choices. But as it turns out, Jeffrey Innes – the man... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Sharon Van Etten – Your Love Is Killing Me

  

  Once in a while, a piece of music comes at me with so much force that it leaves me completely speechless. Such was the case yesterday when Sharon Van Etten... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Matt Kivel – Insignificance

  

  By now it shouldn’t be a secret that Matt Kivel released one of my favorite debut albums of last year in Double Exposure. The record was an inspired collection... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• OBN IIIs – Uncle Powderbag

  

  I’ve been ranting about these guys a lot lately. But I can’t really put my finger on why. They don’t exactly make pioneering music or that sort of thing. But... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Video: TĀLĀ – Serbia

  

  Here is an interesting and conflicting video for TĀLĀ’s otherwise very neon-glazed “Serbia”. As TĀLĀ said; “I find it more exciting to take two opposing... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Craft Spells – Komorebi

  

  Craft Spells, who mines similar dreamy, jangly fields as fellow Captured Track buddys Wild Nothing, early-Beach Fossils and to certain extend Mac DeMarco,... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Gold-Bears – Yeah, Tonight

  

  Gold-Bears may’ve started out as a rather harmless jangle-punk band from Atlanta, but on the glorious, instant classic “For You” they showed just how energetic... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Tearjerker – You Can

  

  Describing  ”You Can”, by Toronto trio Tearjerker, requires using well-worn words like fuzzy, lo-fi, shoegaze, but no terminology really applies once you’ve lai... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Devon Williams – Games

  

  Even more so than the beautiful “Flowers”, Devon Williams latest track “Games” reveals a wealth of refreshing ideas and complex richly orchestrated melodies. Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• The Antlers – Hotel

  

  In many ways “Palace” reminded me more of Hospice than any track did on Burst Apart. Perhaps not so much musically, since The Antlers long traded the... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC

• Total Control – Expensive Dog

  

  A few weeks ago, Total Control dropped one of the most melodic and flat out brilliant punk-pop singles of the year. Or frankly, given the very composed and... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC