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SEE: The lyric video for Drive-By Truckers’ ‘Tough To Let Go’

IT’S AN album that came out of nowhere; Drive-By Truckers’ The New OK grew from a lockdown EP, something to occupy crack musicians after their last album, The Unraveling, collecting…

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SEE: New Bums – ‘Tuned To Graffiti’: insouciant, folksy beauty trails for March album

NEW BUMS is the freewheelin’ two-hander of two very fine songwriters in their own right: Ben Chasny, aka psychotropic voyaging genius Six Organs of Admittance; and Donovan Quinn, formerly of…

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SEE: Kalbells – ‘Purplepink’: cosmic psychedelic disco to the max

KALBELLS are one of those fun, creative side gigs, an adjunct to another band which, having animated with the spark of lifeforce, has gained a vitality all of its own.…

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SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Angeles’: mellow LA country-psych with the darkest heart

BY DAY Cory Hanson is singer-guitarist with LA psych quintet Wand, but he also pursues a rather seductive solo vision: a very LA blur of blissful, rootsy psych, part-Laurel Canyon,…

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SEE: The lyric video for Counterpunch’s ‘Handbook For The Recently Debriefed’

ILLINOIS skatepunks Counterpunch are ready to acid drop into the new year with a new single – yay! It’s coming out on 7″, so that’s a proper single in my…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Small Forward – ‘Small Forward’

Great easy listening on debut LP by LA trio

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PREMIERE: The Ricos – ‘What Comes Next?’: the big question posed as a righteous noise-pop surge

RISING Philadelphia indie outfit The Ricos, who we last touched base with on these pages when we took a look at and really, really liked their Spirit State EP back…

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SEE: The video for Fleet Foxes’ ‘Can I Believe You’, from their surprise fourth

IT CAME as a surprise to most when, on last month’s autumn equinox, Fleet Foxes suddenly unveiled their new album, Shore. It’s full of the same wonderful, ethereal and warm…

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NEWS: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce new album and tour dates; hear ‘Hesitating Nation’ and ‘Thousand Oaks’

ALEC OUNSWORTH’S superb guitar pop outfit Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are excited to announce a new album for the new year: it’s to be entitled New Fragility, and it’ll be hitting…

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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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