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Download TV Girl’s retro-pop mixtape and stream the highlight “Misery” [MP3s]
San Diego indie pop group TV Girl love to sound all retro with vintage-sounding strings and ’60s pop melodies, juxtaposed with modern beats. We’ve been hyping them to y’all for some time now, and the
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Stream: Starlight Girls’ debut self-titled EP and standout “Flutterby” [MP3s]
I’m really enjoying the debut EP from Brooklyn indie psych-pop act Starlight Girls, whose “Wasteland” (the final track on the EP) we posted back in December. The EP was released in early April, but
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Album Stream: Silversun Pickups’ third alt-rock effort, Neck of the Woods
Stream the entire third album from alternative rock band Silversun Pickups, Neck of the Woods, below. It drops next week. Previously: “Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings),” “Seasick,” Swoon review -Jordy Kasko Album Stream: Silversun Pickups –
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Album Stream: Enjoy Edward Sharpe? Try The Mowgli’s bright Sound the Drum
After criticizing what I perceived as poor grammar in this California folk/pop-rock band’s name a few weeks back, I received an email from their manager, explaining that “it is a possessive apostrophe – one of
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Stream the great violin-twisting album from of Montreal’s Kishi Bashi, 151a
Shiny Shiny New wrote the great paragraph that made me want to listen to this talented musician’s debut album, 151a, which was just released on April 10, so I’m gonna let them introduce it
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Superlatives: March 2012 albums that you should hear… right now!
A lot has changed since our last survey of the best albums from January and February 2012 – we are no longer giving scores to albums we review, and we’ve minimized our focus on reviews
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Review & Download: Digits & Bad Passion – Death and Desire mixtape
Release date: Apr. 2, 2012 1. Death and Desire 2. Because It’s Wrong 3. Lost Dream 4. Rockin’ Your Beats (Bad Passion) 5. The Face of Desire 6. Liquid Fire (Bad Passion) 7. Service
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A Belated Second Opinion on the Top 100 Songs of 2011
Welcome to The Tune’s secondhand Top 100 Songs of 2011! A year ago, before the relaunch of The Tune, my fiancé made his habitual for-fun lists of his favorite songs and albums of 2010
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Review: Soulfly – Enslaved
What we have is their heaviest record to date, one that owes a debt to death metal and grindcore while still being quintessentially Soulfly.
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Review: AFTER – Edges of the World EP
Razor-sharp alternative rock with a heavier focus on mood than your average radio fare. The riffs riff and the hooks hook in all the right places.
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Review: Julia Holter – Ekstasis
The thing that gives me the shivers about Ekstasis is Julia Holter's voice. Forget that it's always heavenly and gentle whether it's lilting along a Middle Eastern scale ("Four Gardens") or getting electronically bent
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Review: Kaiser Chiefs – Start the Revolution Without Me
The tracklist for Start the Revolution Without Me is better than the British version of the album, and is only missing two or three of the best tracks from the 23-song project that Kaiser
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