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Flowers of Hell is a trans-continental collective of musicians from bands like the Patti Smith Group, Guided By Voices, Bat For Lashes, Spaceman 3, Broken Social Scene, the Clientele, and British S... Read more

It should come as no surprise that Hardly Art-- Sub Pop's little sister label-- is releasing this career-spanning compilation for the now-defunct, spell-check-maddening Carissa's Wierd. After all, ... Read more

Though HEALTH improved on the Boredoms-inspired sound of their self-titled debut with last year's more melodic Get Color, they still shine brightest on their remix collections. They followed up the... Read more

Cheers to Portland's Blitzen Trapper for opening their fifth full-length, Destroyer of the Void, with the album's almost proggy title track. "Destroyer of the Void" ambitiously steamrolls over deca... Read more

Though Nicolas Fromageau would surely prefer that the debut EP by Team Ghost stand on its own merit, it's hard to talk about the project without mentioning M83. An original member of the latter alo... Read more

In the alt-rock era, the mainstream longed to sound like the underground and trends bubbled up from below. Sometimes, the flow of inspiration works in the other direction. How else to explain the p... Read more

La La Land, the second album from Montreal-based trio Plants and Animals, should be excellent. Their woefully overlooked 2008 debut full-length, Parc Avenue, was ripe to be expanded upon. Full of s... Read more

Australian chanteuse Sally Seltmann may be the best-known singer/songwriter you've never heard of. Though Heart That’s Pounding is the first collection she's released under her own name (she was bo... Read more

Forget what you've been told about judging books by their covers; you can learn all you need to know about Everyday Balloons-- the second aching collection by Portland quartet A Weather-- from its ... Read more

It's a mark of cultural saturation that 2007's Total Magique, the second album by Montreal's We Are Wolves, feels stale only three years later. It's not that Total Magique has aged poorly; that alb... Read more