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SEE: Calexico to release seasonal album; watch the video for ‘Hear The Bells’

ARIZONA’S atmospheric Tex-Mex outfit Calexico have returned after last year’s collaborative album with Iron & Wine, and have announced a new album whose songs are very much concerned with this…

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TRACK: Edith Frost – ‘Little Sign’: a psych-country call for positive action

NOW THERE’S a singer from Drag City’s diverse and always lovable stable that we haven’t heard nearly enough from in recent years. San Antonio’s self-styled purveyor of “pensive, countrified psychedelia”,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Dope Body – ‘Crack A Light’: shriekin’ and howlin’ at the altar

Crack A Light really won't disappoint if you like guitars that shriek and howl in hardcore-stoner distress. A righteous noise purging

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Soundtracks of Our Lives: Elisa Ambrogio of Magik Markers

MAGIK MARKERS came hurtling at us from a Connecticut basement in 2001, full of fire and noise and dirt and excellence. Back then there were four of them: singer-guitarist Elisa…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Magik Markers – ‘2020’: New England noiseniks’ filthy return

New England noiseniks' full-length return after a six-year absence is filthy, trippy and even, at points, damn pretty. Righteous and cathartic, be glad they're back

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TRACK: Mayo Thompson & The Corky Band – Worried Worried

A MUSICIAN and visual artist who is best known as the leader of the avant-garde rock band Red Krayola, Mayo Thompson has released a wild live collaboration with The Corky…

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TRACK: Dope Body – ‘Mutant Being’: they’re ready to hurt those guitars, bwoy

BALTIMORE’S Dope Body are so back; they’re so ready for this and they need to make their guitars howwwwl. They’ve dropped anudda new track to usher you towards the noise…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker – ‘Compassion’: Chicago meets Tibet in exploratory fusion

Compassion is a complex, often beautiful and sometimes challenging work, exploring the interstices where Tibetan healing meets Chicago instrumentalism

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TRACK: Lama Lobsang Palden and Jim Becker – ‘Blessings’: where acoustic postrock meets Tibetan chant

2020, eh? As it wearies on, the need for music, the need for the good things, for stillness, to find our own thread to follow through it all, becomes ever…

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SEE: Dope Body’s ‘Jer Bang’: Baltimore noiseniks are back atcha; be glad

BALTIMORE’S knife-sharp noise outfit Dope Body, who released a trio of salvos at yr head for Drag City in the first part of the decade in the shape of Natural…

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