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Album of the Week: Metz, Atlas Vending
Metz is a good old-fashioned trio — guitar & vocals (Alex Edkins), bass (Chris Slorac), and drums (Hayden Menzies) — who play high-energy, raucous punk-derived noise.
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Album of the Week: Anna von Hausswolff, All Thoughts Fly
Pipe organist and composer Anna von Hausswolff traveled to the Sacro Bosco (“Sacred Grove”), a park in a wooded valley beneath the castle of Orsini in Bomarzo, Italy, and was so taken with its 16th […]
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Album of the Week: Porridge Radio, Every Bad
I admit to having a near fanatical desire to focus on new releases for the Album of the Week. And when I say new, I mean just released.
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Album of the Week: Idles, Ultra Mono
The Idles have gone and done it — Ultra Mono is a record for the times, filled with rage, fury, fight, and compassion.
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Qobuz Live & Rhino Present: ‘John Coltrane – Giant Steps 60’: An All-Star Livestream Discussion
All-Star indeed as the panel doing the discussing includes saxophonists Archie Shepp(!!), Lakecia Benjamin, Shabaka Hutchings, and Melissa Aldana moderated by Ashley Kahn, author of two books on Coltrane, and Greg Tate, the Louis Armstrong […]
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Album of the Week: H.C. McEntire, Eno Axis
The river Eno runs through North Carolina, past H.C McEntire’s home, and right through the heart of Eno Axis.
Art&Culture
The Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith: The Perfect Vision Trilogy
Of the books I kept, some of the most sacred are those by Arthur Rimbaud, Antonin Artaud, and René Daumal. The Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith have released a trio of albums dedicated to each, […]
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Album of the Week: Bill Callahan, Gold Record
“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” so begins Bill Callahan’s Gold Record.
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Album of the Week: Kelly Lee Owens, Inner Song
Kelly Lee Owns second album, Inner Song, is a sonic smorgasbord of delight.
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Album of the Week: Angel Olsen, Whole New Mess
Angel Olsen, electric guitar, and an occasional organ in a repurposed church turned recording studio on the coast in the Pacific Northwest. If all that sounds too good to be true, it is but it […]
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Album of the Week: Duval Timothy
Multidisciplinary artist and pianist Duval Timothy mixes up a world of influence into his new record Help, creating a stirring soul-fed soundworld that defies genrefication offering up the possibility to feel, heal, and learn.
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Album of the Week: Lankum
Dublin-based 4-piece Lankum’s latest album The Livelong Day, released in October of 2019 on Rough Trade Records, is a powerful, stunning, and moving mix of the old and new.