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Better Know a College Radio Station: Seton Hall’s WSOU
For many obsessive fans who grew up in the pre-Internet era, a passion for music was sparked in the dingy basements and dark booths of college radio stations. Despite sound boards that are decades out...
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Lee Hazlewood’s “13” Is A Wonderful Soul Album That Almost Didn’t Happen
Photos courtesy of Mark Pickerel and Suzi Jane Hok0m13 is one of Lee Hazlewood’s strongest albums. It’s also, technically speaking, not really a Lee Hazlewood album. 13 originated as a vehicle for...
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Ray Volpe’s Emotional Dubstep
At a Guitar Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, Ray Volpe is scoping out equipment that he wants (a mini keyboard) and the items he’d rather skip (speakers with insufficient bass). Traditionally,...
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Album of the Day: Julie Byrne, “Not Even Happiness”
When her debut, Rooms With Walls & Windows, was released in 2014, psych-folk singer/songwriter Julie Byrne quietly established herself as a powerful and personal storyteller, a woman whose...
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The Roots of Dubstep Echo in the Haunting Sound of ’90s Label WordSound
In the early 1990s, without fanfare, a dark sound started seeping out of the sewers of then-desolate Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A chilling mix of dub, instrumental hip-hop, and dark ambient, the music...
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Winnipeg’s KEN Mode are in it for the Long Haul
Photos by Scott Kinkade It’s been a long and noisy road for KEN mode. The band was formed in 1999 by brothers Jesse and Shane Matthewson (guitar/vocals and drums respectively) in Winnipeg, Manitoba,...
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Substantial’s New Album Forges A Positive Path
You can call Stan “Substantial” Robinson a “thinking man’s rapper,” but that statement doesn’t accurately capture the MC’s artistry and humility. On his fourth official solo album, The Past Is Always...
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Bobby Brown’s “Prayers of a One-Man Band” is a Cracked Pop Masterpiece
“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally...
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Album of the Day: Black Anvil, “As Was”
Black Anvil are, at their core, a black metal band. Just take a look at their touring partners (Watain, Withered, Behemoth), or read their lyrics, or dig their leather, spikes, and anti-Christian...
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Blitz the Ambassador Uses Hip-Hop to Make Crucial Global Connections
Photos by Robert Winter Six albums into his globe-trotting career, Ghanaian-born rapper Blitz the Ambassador has finally discovered a depth and breadth in his voice and style that allows him funnel his...
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The Best New Jazz on Bandcamp
Last month, the new arrivals section was flooded with holiday-themed albums, but even amidst that avalanche of seasonal records, there were some jazz gems to be found. Sound Etiquette, Sound Etiquette...
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A Complete List of Bandcamp Artists Performing at the Inauguration
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On “Jardín,” Gabriel Garzón-Montano Puts Himself Front and Center
Gabriel Garzón-Montano by Joe Hollier It’s hard to tell where Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s studio ends and his bedroom begins. There’s a fully-assembled drum set nestled in the bottom of the...
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On “Twelve,” Exray’s Refine Their Cosmic Space Groove
Exray’s by Gabriel Wheeler In 2010, San Francisco group Exray’s landed a song in The Social Network, the critically-acclaimed film about Mark Zuckerberg’s founding of Facebook. The track, “Hesitation,”...
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Album of the Day: Thurst, “Cut to the Chafe”
Los Angeles trio Thurst wear their outsider status with pride on Cut to the Chafe, a 14-song blast of punk anxiety that dials down the snotty playground taunts of their first release, YSFC (an acronym...
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The Best New Hip-Hop on Bandcamp
The year 2016 concluded with an unexpected present for hip-hop heads: Run The Jewels—aka rappers Killer Mike and El-P—decided to drop their third album ahead of schedule on Christmas Eve. True to the...
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Glasgow’s Poisonous Relationship is an Unlikely Dance Music Genius
Photos by Matthew Arthur Williams Redefining the perceptions of house music is just one of the many goals of the genre-bending new Poisonous Relationship record, A FAGGOT IN A TEMPEST. Poisonous...
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Meet the Other Duo Behind Run the Jewels
Little Shalimar At its core, Run The Jewels is a tag-team hip-hop duo comprised of the Brooklyn-raised rapper and producer EL-P and Atlanta’s firebrand spitter Killer Mike. But as each album release...
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How Death Records is Helping Preserve the Bay Area Underground
In the late 2000s, a band called Girls went from playing tiny shows at now defunct DIY spaces in San Francisco to headlining festivals in what felt like the blink of an eye, spearheading the meteoric...
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Album of the Day: Cloud Nothings, “Life Without Sound”
Like fellow fuzz-pop contemporary Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest, Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi shares a fondness for the contemplative solitude of an automobile. “A thing I like to do with all my...
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