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  • Damien Jurado – Waters Ave S.
    Damien Jurado – Waters Ave S.
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    2022 promises to be a banner year for Damien Jurado. Not only does the year mark the songwriter’s 50th birthday, but it also sees the summer release of his 18th […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Smut – How The Light Felt
    Smut – How The Light Felt
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    Smut shines a spotlight on the sounds of the 90s across genres – a record scratch, a spacey synth line, a breakcore beat – all while maintaining freshness and originality. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chronophage – S/T
    Chronophage – S/T
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    What our staff has to say: “Chronophage is one of those bands that I will forever be interested in their output. This most recent record feels like a small departure […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Iceage – Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015?2021
    Iceage – Shake The Feeling: Outtakes & Rarities 2015?2021
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    Shake the Feeling: B-Sides & Rarities 2015–2021 surveys the sound surrounding Iceage’s last three albums, Plowing Into the Field of Love, Beyondless and Seek Shelter. A study in the powerful [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Sorry Eric – The Problem With Fun LP
    Sorry Eric – The Problem With Fun LP
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    What our staff has to say: “Honestly how does a record this good get made??? Sorry Eric – The Problem with fun is the perfect driving the car record, it’s […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V-3 – Hit Dead Center With My Disease LP
    V-3 – Hit Dead Center With My Disease LP
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    As I was reviewing V3’s cycle of works from early 1986 to the end of Roxanne Newman’s’ tenure in late 1991, I became increasingly flabbergasted at the band. At the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • V-3 – The Enemy Within LP
    V-3 – The Enemy Within LP
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    As I was reviewing V3’s cycle of works from early 1986 to the end of Roxanne Newman’s’ tenure in late 1991, I became increasingly flabbergasted at the band. At the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Courtney Marie Andrews – Honest Life
    Courtney Marie Andrews – Honest Life
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    After a decade spent at the height of the music industry, touring solo and with large pop bands, Courtney Marie Andrews realized her desire for a place to come home […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Sea and Cake – Runner (Robin’s Egg Blue Vinyl)
    The Sea and Cake – Runner (Robin’s Egg Blue Vinyl)
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    The Sea and Cake deliver an album with the freshness and energy of a new band, and the ease and musicianship that can only come with experience. Runner began as […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Black Pus – All My Relations
    Black Pus – All My Relations
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    Black Pus is Brian Chippendale, who rose to prominence as the drummer of noise rock titans Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer. The first Black Pus CD-R was self released in early […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Circuit Des Yeux – In Plain Speech
    Circuit Des Yeux – In Plain Speech
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    Haley Fohr’s music strikes a unique balance between the personal and universal. As Circuit des Yeux she creates music that embodies the complexity of human emotions, juxtaposing tenderness and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist
    Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker – Little Common Twist
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    Charles Rumback and Ryley Walker are both known for their creativity and curious spirits. Rumback is a drummer in high demand in Chicago’s free-jazz circles, and a pillar of the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Of Montreal ? Freewave Lucifer Fck (Cyan Vinyl)
    Of Montreal ? Freewave Lucifer Fck (Cyan Vinyl)
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    When creators f<ck with how we experience time and space, great fictions emerge: Clive Barker’s Imajica, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi classic Solaris, and Godard’s Alphaville. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come
    Chris Forsyth – Evolution Here We Come
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    To wit, if you think you know already what you’ll be getting into here—heady, Television-esque multi-guitar jams played with motorik precision and a fiercely American intensity: you know, a [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stella Donnelly – Flood
    Stella Donnelly – Flood
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    Like the many Banded Stilts that spread across the cover of her newest album Flood, Stella Donnelly is wading into uncharted territory. Here, she finds herself discovering who she is […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Mary Lattimore & Growing – Gainer
    Mary Lattimore & Growing – Gainer
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    Critically acclaimed harpist and experimental composer Mary Lattimore and big amp ambient pioneers Growing have united for their first collaboration: Gainer. Remastered here from its original [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Indie / Alternative
  • Kamikaze Palm Tree – Mint Chip
    Kamikaze Palm Tree – Mint Chip
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    For their sophomore effort/Drag City debut, the enigmatic duo expand into eight-armed wonder; all the better to reach ever-deeper into their bag o’ tricks. Slinky and sliding elegantly, the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Spoils – Find Later CS
    Spoils – Find Later CS
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    What our staff has to say: “Spoils are my favorite band in Ohio. Rock for life.” – Kobe “Ohio style baby you know what we mean haha” Upon first listen […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Eddie Vedder – Earthling
    Eddie Vedder – Earthling
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    Earthling, the third studio album from Eddie Vedder, features the singles “Long Way,” “The Haves,” and “Brother The Cloud.” In addition, the album features collaborations with music legends [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Shearwater – The Great Awakening
    Shearwater – The Great Awakening
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    In December 2016, during Shearwater’s last live show, bandleader Jonathan Meiburg picked up a slip of paper from the stage: a prayer request card, left behind by a church that […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Interpol – The Other Side Of Make Believe
    Interpol – The Other Side Of Make Believe
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    If fate didn’t quite ordain the circumstances for Interpol’s seventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded their Marauder cycle on stage in front of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Helado Negro – Far In
    Helado Negro – Far In
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    When Roberto Carlos Lange, the musician known as Helado Negro, began writing Far In immediately following the release of his acclaimed 2019 This is How You Smile, he could not […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • EMA – The Future’s Void
    EMA – The Future’s Void
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    EMA recently told NME that the album was influenced by, among other things, NiN demos, the heavier side of early K Records, and William Gibson’s Neuromancer, and that the album […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Chalk – Neophobia
    Chalk – Neophobia
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    How can music be violent when it’s not loud? When is malice beautiful? Neophobia is a meditative saga which, despite the name, radically embraces the aesthetics and methods of post-modernity. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gabbard Brothers – S/T
    Gabbard Brothers – S/T
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    From the ashes of the acclaimed Ohio rock band Buffalo Killers, singers/ songwriters/siblings Zachary and Andrew Gabbard have re-emerged as The Gabbard Brothers. And while there are still [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Maggot Brain – Issue #9
    Maggot Brain – Issue #9
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    WELCOME TO MAGGOT BRAIN #9 – RAYMOND PETTIBON ON THE COVER! RAYMOND PETTIBON: IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM WOODHEAD JOHN BRANNON: NEGATIVE APPROACH HONCHO UNLOADS JOHN WATERS: THE RETURN OF THE […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive, Indie / Alternative
  • Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn
    Jack White – Fear Of The Dawn
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    Fear of the Dawn is the fourth studio album from Jack White, founding member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. True to his DIY roots, this […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Mikey Young – You Feelin Me?
    Mikey Young – You Feelin Me?
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    What our staff has to say: “The solo endeavor of Mikey Young, who’s resume of bands include Total Control and Eddy Current Suppression Ring just to name a few. You […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Wax Chattels – s/t
    Wax Chattels – s/t
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    The inception of Wax Chattels occurred rather rapidly. Several years after completing jazz school together, Peter Ruddell and Amanda Cheng reconnected at a Preoccupations show in 2016 at [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Joni Void – Mise En Abyme
    Joni Void – Mise En Abyme
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    Mise En Abyme is the second full-length by Joni Void, the plunderphonic electronica project of France/Canada producer Jean Cousin, following his acutely accomplished and acclaimed 2017 debut [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Varsity – Fine Forever
    Varsity – Fine Forever
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    From the very start of “Runaway,” the opening track on Varsity’s third album Fine Forever, it’s clear that the Chicago quintet has morphed into something new. While still working in […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sunwatchers – Brave Rats
    Sunwatchers – Brave Rats
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    SUNWATCHERS’ Brave Rats EP (AMI 051) is the band’s third Amish-related release (also see: 3 Characters with Eugene Chadbourne and Arthur Doyle’s First House).  Quick on the heels of [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Zola Jesus – Arkhon CD
    Zola Jesus – Arkhon CD
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    There is a way a voice can cut through the fascia of reality, cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience. Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter, and producer […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Zola Jesus – Arkhon
    Zola Jesus – Arkhon
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    There is a way a voice can cut through the fascia of reality, cleaving through habit into the raw nerve of experience. Nika Roza Danilova, the singer, songwriter, and producer […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth
  • Joan Shelley – The Spur
    Joan Shelley – The Spur
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    I want to explain these songs / I want to leave them unexplained. We’ve all been working with a lot of silence. I was tired from touring, remembering the long […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Rostam ? Changephobia
    Rostam ? Changephobia
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    Changephobia is the 2nd full-length solo record from Grammy Award-winning songwriter, producer, and composer Rostam Batmanglij. An adventurous new direction for Rostam, the songs collected on [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Reigning Sound – Abdication
    Reigning Sound – Abdication
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    Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and Reigning Sound frontman Greg Cartwright, Abdication… For Your Love was originally available solely as a promotional giveaway. This 2019 reissue [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Palberta – Palberta5000
    Palberta – Palberta5000
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    “While punk music was our first love, pop music has become our fixation. Throughout the making of ‘Palberta5000,’ we were focused on making music that people could not only sing […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • No Joy – Motherhood LP
    No Joy – Motherhood LP
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    No Joy’s relentless sonic permutations are evidence of frontperson and principal songwriter Jasamine White-Gluz’s insatiable desire to grow. The Montréal-based project began a decade ago as [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
    Bill MacKay & Katinka Kleijn – STIR
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    The combustive guitar/cello chemistry of MacKay and Kleijn is drawn from avant-rock, classical and experimental inspirations, forged through years of live performance. The freedom-cum-new [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lower Dens – Competition
    Lower Dens – Competition
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    The fourth album from Lower Dens, The Competition is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent, dealing with modern capitalism and its psychotic effects. Its 11 […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Album Leaf – Past & Future
    The Album Leaf – Past & Future
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    Three long ou-of-print EPs, two available for the first time on vinyl. Packaged together with an EP of brand new material. Pressed on opaque galaxy vinyl with four album-sized art […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Itasca – Spring
    Itasca – Spring
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    What our staff has to say: “One of my favorite folk albums of the past 10 years. Laurel Canyon styled folk. Joni Mitchell – breezy afternoon. Heavy southwest vibe. Bitchin […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Half Japanese – Crazy Hearts
    Half Japanese – Crazy Hearts
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    Half Japanese return with another thrilling ride into unknown charters encountering beasts, celebrities, and menaces. Purveyors of noise and indie rock for over four decades, Half Japanese have [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Half-Handed Cloud – Gathered Out Of Thin Air
    Half-Handed Cloud – Gathered Out Of Thin Air
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    “Gathered Out Of Thin Air” is a new Half-handed Cloud (John Ringhofer) double LP compilation of sixty freshly mastered, non-LP singles, EPs, and rarities, recorded throughout the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Larry Gus – Subservient
    Larry Gus – Subservient
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    Larry Gus (real name Panagiotis Melidis) returns to DFA with Subservient, his fourth release for the label. More pop-oriented than his previous albums, Subservient is a lush combination of [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Foxygen – Seeing Other People
    Foxygen – Seeing Other People
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    Seeing Other People is curiously positioned as Foxygen’s most recent last-ever album. With every album the band dies; with every album the band is reborn. But unlike the last-ever Foxygen […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • EMA – Exile In The Outer Ring
    EMA – Exile In The Outer Ring
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    EMA – the project of South Dakota native and Portland, OR-based artist Erika M. Anderson – has announced her third album Exile In The Outer Ring for release on August 25, 2017 via City Slang. [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Martin Newell – The Off White Album
    Martin Newell – The Off White Album
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    The title of Martin Newell’s second solo album comes from a cheeky riff on the Beatles’ White Album: if 1993’s critically-acclaimed The Greatest Living Englishman was Newell’s Sgt. Pepper’s, then [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Building – Reconciliation
    The Building – Reconciliation
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    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • The Building – Just For Once
    The Building – Just For Once
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    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • PJ Bond – Brother Bones
    PJ Bond – Brother Bones
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    This is an 8 song split record with brothers PJ and Brian Bond, who each wrote the songs on their respective sides.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Animal Collective – Crestone LP
    Animal Collective – Crestone LP
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    The debut feature written, produced and directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler. Set in the desert of Crestone, Colorado over the course of eight days and set to an original score […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Soundtracks / Library Music
  • Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
    Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain
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    After breaking through with a batch of restless, itinerant songs on Honest Life in 2016, Courtney Marie Andrews longs for something more permanent on the follow-up. The Seattle singer spends […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Blanck Mass – Ted K Original Score (Opaque Red Vinyl)
    Blanck Mass – Ted K Original Score (Opaque Red Vinyl)
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    This February the story of the infamous Unabomber Ted Kaczynski will receive its theatrical debut in a new Tony Stone directed film, Ted K. Kaczynski is notorious for both tragically […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Soundtracks / Library Music, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Endless Rooms
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    While initial ideas for Endless Rooms were traded online during long spells spent separated by Australia’s strict lockdowns, the album was truly born during small windows of freedom in which […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Angel Olsen – Big Time CD
    Angel Olsen – Big Time CD
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    Fresh grief, like fresh love, has a way of sharpening our vision and bringing on painful clarifications. No matter how temporary we know these states to be, the vulnerability and […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • SOAK – If I Never Know You Like This Again
    SOAK – If I Never Know You Like This Again
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    With their new album, ‘If I Never Know You Like This Again’, SOAK has finally shaken the hangover of their starry debut ‘Before We Forgot How To Dream’, and the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dan Deacon – Bromst
    Dan Deacon – Bromst
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    The art made by Baltimore artist Dan Deacon is about community and how to organize and inspire it. Bromst is the embodiment of that way of thinking. For the last […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Melody’s Echo Chamber –  Emotional Eternal
    Melody’s Echo Chamber – Emotional Eternal
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    Emotional Eternal, the third studio album from Melody’s Echo Chamber, is a deeply human collection of songs full of prolonged moments of sonic transcendency – a record that clearly exhibits […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative