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Album of the Day: Fatuous Rump, “Propagation of the Foul”
On their first collaboration, Taiwanese metal veterans Kai Lee and Larry Wang (Maggot Colony, Coprocephalic, etc.) come out swinging. Lee, who plays all the instruments, creates grinding death metal...
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The New Face of Prog Rock
In the late ‘60s, not long after the Summer of Love, psychedelic rock’s horizons expanded. As the architects of psych began to envision a sound that existed outside of the influence of blues and...
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The Africa Seven Label is Reissuing Some of Africa’s Funkiest Jams
When London-based record collectors Rich Elson and John Bryan began work on digitizing the vast Sonodisc Catalogue—one of the largest label and distribution groups releasing Afro disco, funk, jazz,...
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Balam Acab Returns With a Mountain of Eerie, Unsettling Electronic Music
When Alec Koone says, “I can’t be one of those musicians who sits in a studio, churns out a record, tours, and does the whole industry thing; I’m too old for that,” it’s easy to be cynical and ask one...
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The Sincere and Vibrant World of the Czech DIY Scene
Nic Every year, at the end of July, the small and grassy airport of Rokycany, a small Czech town a few miles east of Plzeň, fills with people for a gathering called Fluff Fest. Attendance is a summer...
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Album of the Day: Nassau, “Heron”
On Heron, the debut full-length album from Nassau, members Justin Wilcox and Jeffrey Silverstein look to the future with hope and calm reserve, using relaxed Americana and psychedelic sounds to...
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The Outsiders of Ireland’s Heavy Underground
The diversity in Ireland’s heavy underground belies the limited pool of musicians you’d expect from such a small country. That’s one of filmmaker John Mulvaney’s biggest takeaways while making his...
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A Journey to the Self with Réunion Island’s Jérémy Labelle
Photos by Philippon Labelle “No man is an island.” So goes the famous opening line of John Donne’s poem, and the motto for Wolfgang Tillmans’s recent anti-Brexit poster campaign. While Donne argues for...
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The Best Beat Tapes on Bandcamp
Scroll to the bottom of Bandcamp.com; click on the ‘hip-hop/rap’ tag, then on the ‘beat-tape’ tag. Wade through and see what’s there. Pretty daunting, right? The list you’re about to read is the...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Art-Soul, Replicant Jock Jams & Americana
Welcome to Seven Essential Releases, our weekly roundup of the best music on Bandcamp. Each week, we’ll recommend six new albums, plus pick an older LP from the stacks that you may have missed. The...
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Album of the Day: Jordan Rakei, “Wallflower”
Ever since his debut 2013 EP Franklin’s Room, 25-year-old New Zealander Jordan Rakei’s jazz-inflected, soul-imbued sound has garnered praise from heavy hitters like the Soulection crew. He’s...
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U.K. Dancefloor King The Irresistible Force Returns with “Kira Kira”
Morris Gould has been DJing for 36 years, and has been making electronic music for longer still. His profile was at its highest through the 1990s, when—always clad in silver or holographic outfits—he...
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How Australia Influenced Son Little’s Magical New Soul Record
Photos by Ralston Smith. If you find yourself in Australia’s Northern Territory, stay away from the bats. “Imagine something really big hanging upside-down from that tree,” says Aaron Livingston (aka...
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Dälek’s Unconventional Path
Photo by Eric Kjensrud. Tonight, for dinner,” says Dälek programmer Mike Manteca, “you need to take two slices of white bread, add some potato chips—any brand—and put some mustard on them. It’s...
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Album of the Day: The Black Seeds, “Fabric”
On much of their eighth album, Fabric, New Zealand’s Black Seeds sound like they’re fighting against the current. They come off positive enough in tracks like the deliciously dubby “Better Days” and...
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Phoebe Bridgers on the Places That Inspired Her Tender Indie Rock
Phoebe Bridgers and I are parked in front of Bedrock L.A., a large Echo Park practice facility that’s been the workspace for artists like Father John Misty and Eleanor Friedberger. It’s a humble...
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A Brief Guide to the Canadian Metal Scene
Though casual music fans first learned about it through the enormously-popular documentary Anvil: The Story of Anvil, Canada’s metal scene has been thriving since the 1980s. Due to the sheer size of...
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Trombonist Ryan Porter is For the Children
Photo by Ruff Draft. The West Coast Get Down’s month-long recording session in 2012 is already the stuff of jazz legend. Inspired by their packed-house jam sessions at the Piano Bar in West Hollywood,...
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Hi Bias: Notable Cassette Releases on Bandcamp, September 2017
Nicole Ginelli Welcome to Hi Bias, a monthly column highlighting recent cassette releases on Bandcamp, and exploring the ideas behind them with the artists who made them. Rather than making sweeping...
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Album of the Day: Maalem Mahmoud Gania, “Colours of the Night”
When some Westerners think of religious music, they may imagine choral voices and slow tempos—something serious and solemn. Of course, the truth is that religious music is diverse as secular music is;...
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