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Rene Lopez Captivates Sultry Berlin
Rene’s music is the dance like no one’s watching type, where you groove to your heart’s content. He captures what it’s like to have a love affair with NYC,
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Deaf Havana: Rituals | Repentance and Reformation
From first glance Deaf Havana's Rituals appears to be a concept album of sorts, although overall the record carries more a theme of struggle and redemption.
Elizabeth Colour Wheel: Queen Tired | Descent Into Madness
Elizabeth Colour Wheel is the best parts of 90’s shoegaze, noise rock, sludge rock, Chicago/Louisville post rock, and glimmers of doom metal.
Mars Motel @ Mercury Lounge | Making Summer Feel Endless
I took the chance to see Mars Motel live at Mercury Lounge and it was the one of the best spontaneous decisions I’ve made.
The Death of Music Festivals: But Genuine Moments Still Exist
Music Festivals have been taken over by coporations with V.I.P. experinces being more important than the music, but the music still brings geniunie moments.
Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 – Culture and Curation
Coop covers Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 and discusses how it manages to celebrate community, culture, and curation while still managing to be fun.
Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love | What Is Love Without Corruption?
I don't think Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is the beginning of the end for Deafheaven, but it might end up being the beginning of a change.
Take My Word For It | Cheval Sombre – Had Enough Blues/Hitch A Ride 7″
Despite being only a 7" with two songs, Cheval Sombre has dropped one of the best releases of the year and you're gonna have to take my word for it.
The Jesus Lizard: Goat | The All-Time Noise-Rock Classic
There are no bands anywhere in this world that could ever hope to come close to the unhinged chaotic genius that is the Jesus Lizard.
Okie from Muskogee: Recorded “Live” in Muskogee, OK by Merle Haggard | A Critique of Willful Misinterpretation
“Okie from Muskogee: Recorded ‘Live’ in Muskogee, OK” is a superb and insightful book, one that rejected easy classification, like its subject Merle Haggard.