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News: THAO Announces First Album In Six Years With ‘Sick of the Times’

Six years after her last studio album, THAO returns with Show Me, a deeply personal new record due 30 October via Kill Rock Stars, alongside the release of its first single, the politically charged ‘Sick…

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Track: Uh Huh Her Reimagine Sonic Youth’s ‘Kool Thing’ Ahead Of Nocturnes: Redux

More than a decade after Nocturnes quietly cemented its place as an overlooked electropop gem, Uh Huh Her are revisiting the album with a fresh perspective. The duo of Camila Grey and…

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News: Corin Tucker And Tracy Sawyer Revive heavens to betsy

More than three decades after helping shape the riot grrrl movement, heavens to betsy are returning to the stage. Following an intimate sold-out reunion show in Portland, Corin Tucker and…

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Track: Uh Huh Her Release New Single ‘Shook’ And Nocturnes: Redux

For much of the late 2000s and early 2010s, Uh Huh Her occupied a singular corner of alternative music. Blending shimmering synths, understated guitars and intimate songwriting, the duo quietly…

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See: Bitch stands up to be counted on the technicolour torch song, ‘Easy Target’

QUEER icon Bitch doesn’t ever take fools lightly, and you should so know and respect that, even if she has a way with couching that message in technicolour synth melodies…

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Album review: Devin Hoff – ‘Voices From The Empty Moor (Songs of Anne Briggs)’: the canon of the Notts folk free spirit judiciously reinvented

BASSIST Devin Hoff may well be one of those names little known to you, but whose invaluable contributions to a record you’ve likely loved; as a four-string sharpshooter of absolute…

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See: Logan Lynn captures the high beauty and strength of simple togetherness with ‘Here’s To Us’

LOGAN LYNN, Portland, Oregon’s so-much-loved songwriter, producer, filmmaker, and activist, who – casting your mind back to the far-off days of high summer here, took Gossip’s “Standing In The Way…

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See: Foxx Bodies’ excellently fiery punk pounder ‘Room’ ahead of their November album

EMERGING from the scene down in Tucson, Arizona, when singer Bella Vanek, guitarist Bailey Moses, bassist Matt Vanek, and drummer Adam Bucholz got together and began to move in musical…

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Californians Foxx Bodies trail new album with raucous lead single ‘Bad Kid’

From the press photo above, it looks like Los Angeles quartet Foxx Bodies are waiting for something important, and that’s probably the release of their forthcoming second album, which has…

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See: Logan Lynn & Bitch take ‘Standing In The Way Of Control’ out for a spin in the dark electro pulse of the dancefloor to celebrate Kill Rock Stars’ 30th birthday

HOW THE hourglass casts its sand; believe it or not, and I’m struggling with this, 2021 actually marks 30 years – 30! – of releases from Portland, Oregon’s Kill Rock…

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