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Despite the fact that Gay Singles is Hunx and His Punx's trashy-excellent first full-length, you may be familiar with the group's frontman Hunx, aka Seth Bogart, whether you know it or not. Perhaps... Lees meer

At first glace, it's easy to mistake Germany's Kammerflimmer Kollektief for an experimental band. Their music features abstract vocals, electronics, and a sense of practiced spontaneity. But in fac... Lees meer

Throughout the Brian Jonestown Massacre's various travels in Spacemen 3 fuzz-rock, Byrdsian jangle-pop, and Dylanesque country-blues, the one constant has been Newcombe's alternately venomous/vulne... Lees meer

You can only be the dark horse once. The Besnard Lakes may have been a (mostly) unknown quantity when they broke out to a wider audience in 2007, but they were also insiders of sorts-- guitarist/vo... Lees meer

On their first two albums (1998's Gangstabilly and 1999's Pizza Deliverance), the Drive-By Truckers were supreme redneck jokesters, specializing in scabrous white-trash vignettes owing more to Sou... Lees meer

It took Eddy Current Suppression Ring just six studio hours to craft a follow up to their sophomore LP, Primary Colours. That's less time than most Americans will spend at work in a day. While ... Lees meer

Brooklyn's Fang Island describe their aesthetic as "everyone high-fiving everyone." So it's appropriate that the band's website features a video of them jamming out with kindergartners and another ... Lees meer

South Florida's Mike Diaz (aka MillionYoung) manages to evoke some surprisingly warm textures from chillwave's now-familiar sounds and motifs. Much of the music on Be So True shares some of the sa... Lees meer

When Beulah split, it seemed like something of a mercy killing; over the course of four LPs, their impeccably arranged take on bubblegum psych grew dourer and more heartbroken, and so did the band ... Lees meer

Infinite Body's Kyle Parker used to perform as Gator Surprise, one of many shirtless dudes moaning into suitcases full of pedals around Los Angeles. But his debut LP as Infinite Body, White Hymn,... Lees meer