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  • 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 / Neofolk
  • 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
    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 / Neofolk
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember
    Cloud Nothings – The Shadow I Remember
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    For a band that resists repeating itself, picking up lessons from a decade prior is the strange route Cloud Nothings took to create their most fully-realized album. Their new record, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten – We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
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    Sharon Van Etten has always been the kind of artist who helps people make sense of the world around them, and her sixth album, We’ve Been Going About This All […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • S. Carey – Break Me Open
    S. Carey – Break Me Open
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    S. Carey is the moniker of Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Sean Carey, commonly recognized as the drummer, backing vocalist, and second-longest serving [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Goin On
    Yo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Goin On
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    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Gentle Leader XIV ? Channels
    Gentle Leader XIV ? Channels
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    Gentle Leader XIV conjures the unholy ghost of modern life while warming around the fire of a domesticated mythology. A friend long gone, a beloved object stolen, a bird on […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Tyvek – Live At Third Man
    Tyvek – Live At Third Man
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    Tyvek ‘Live at Third Man’ recorded straight to tape on 09/27/2010.

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (Olive Green Vinyl)
    Deerhoof – Actually, You Can (Olive Green Vinyl)
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    Over eighteen boundless albums as experimental as they are pop, Deerhoof has continuously quested for radical sounds and daring storytelling. 2020’s Future Teenage Cave Artists explored fairytale [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Alex Cameron – Oxy Music
    Alex Cameron – Oxy Music
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    Alex Cameron has always been a great storyteller, finding his ways into the depths of the places where not many others are looking, and Oxy Music continues on that trajectory. […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Snail Mail – Valentine CD
    Snail Mail – Valentine CD
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    Valentine was written and produced by Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee). Written in 2019-2020 the album is filled with romance, heartbreak, blood, sweat and [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – S/T CD
    Caroline – S/T CD
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    UK eight-piece caroline’s eponymous debut album often cascades with force like an avalanche, squalling and rumbling on the edge of all-out collapse. At other points they slip back into impossibly [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – S/T
    Caroline – S/T
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    UK eight-piece caroline’s eponymous debut album often cascades with force like an avalanche, squalling and rumbling on the edge of all-out collapse. At other points they slip back into impossibly [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jenny Hval – Classic Objects
    Jenny Hval – Classic Objects
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    Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval releases her new album Classic Objects. Classic Objects is a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Ethan P. Flynn – Universal Deluge
    Ethan P. Flynn – Universal Deluge
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    On his forthcoming EP ‘Universal Deluge’, Ethan P. Flynn plunges into the darker side of experimental pop, combining electronics with stripped-back acoustics, underpinned by his well-recognised [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
    Dashboard Confessional – All The Truth That I Can Tell
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    DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL’S NINTH STUDIO ALBUM, ALL THE TRUTH THAT I CAN TELL, IS BOTH A REMARKABLE RENEWAL AND FORTUNATE STEP FORWARD FOR THE BAND’S SONGWRITER, FRONT MAN, AND FOUNDER, CHRIS […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative, Rock / Pop
  • Eels – Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (See My Engine Gleam) (LP, Album) (NM or M-)
    Eels – Eels – Extreme Witchcraft (See My Engine Gleam) (LP, Album) (NM or M-)
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    One evening in the fall of 1998 EELS were taping their second appearance on the British television show Top of the Pops, performing “Last Stop: This Town” from their about […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Josephine Foster – Godmother
    Josephine Foster – Godmother
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    A beautifully observed baroque masterpiece, part dream pop, part futuristic psych-folk with ambient synths and Josephine Foster’s plaintive guitar. Godmother is a slowly unfolding song cycle that [...]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • Fenne Lily ‎– On Hold
    Fenne Lily ‎– On Hold
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    On 6th April, 2018, Bristol-based musician Fenne Lily self-released her debut album On Hold – a break-up record uncompromising in its intimacy and vulnerability. With songs written as young as [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • So Pitted – Neo
    So Pitted – Neo
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    Nathan Rodriguez, of Seattle’s So Pitted, is referring to a viral clip of a surfer, standing on the shore in front of mountainous morning waves, relaying to a reporter the […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • 2.1E+12
    2.1E+12
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    On her second full-length record, Head of Roses, Jenn Wasner follows a winding thread of intuition into the unknown and into healing, led by gut feelings and the near-spiritual experience […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Che-Shizu – A Journey
    Che-Shizu – A Journey
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    Ché-SHIZU is one of the most original and mystifying groups to ever emerge from Japan’s musical underground. Founded by master improviser Chie Mukai in 1981 the group has been guided […]

    GENRE: Folk / Country, Indie / Alternative
  • The Dodos – Grizzly Peak (Light Pink Vinyl)
    The Dodos – Grizzly Peak (Light Pink Vinyl)
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    For over 15 years, The Dodos have been careening, almost recklessly, towards some perfect ideal of how The Dodos should sound. First formed with the intention of creating a record […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Pedro The Lion – Phoenix
    Pedro The Lion – Phoenix
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    Pedro the Lion has always been David Bazan, but it took a long time to get back there. In August 2016, during what he now recognizes as his lowest point, […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative