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In 1978, The Clean were the seeds of New Zealand punk. They carved out a big sandbox for everyone to play in, and their influence resonated not only in NZ but around the... 

Originally released in 1996, The Clean’s Unknown Country makes its debut appearance on vinyl in the US on March 26, 2021.

Of... 

In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he’s toured the world both solo and as a member of... 

In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he’s toured the world both solo and as a member of Arcade Fire, released the Friday Night live... 

The second album from Melbourne, Australia’s Cable Ties brings a towering wall of ’70s hard rock and proto-punk to songs that explore hope, despair, and anger but... 

The second album from Melbourne, Australia’s Cable Ties brings a towering wall of ’70s hard rock and proto-punk to songs that explore hope, despair, and anger but... 

Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu yhdysvaltalaisen indie rock-yhtye Archers of Loafin albumista "Icky Mettle" vuodelta 1993. 

Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu yhdysvaltalaisen indie rock-yhtye Archers of Loafin albumista "Vee Vee" vuodelta 1995. 

Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu yhdysvaltalaisen indie rock-yhtye Archers of Loafin albumista "All the Nation's Airports" vuodelta 1996. 

Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu yhdysvaltalaisen indie rock-yhtye Archers of Loafin albumista "White Trash Heroes" vuodelta 1998. 

Dents and Shells is the first LP that Richard Buckner made for Merge Records, in 2004. By the time the album was recorded in Austin, TX and Tucson, AZ, with... 

Seeker is Mikal Cronin’s fourth and finest full-length to date. Recorded live with a crew of close friends and engineer Jason Quever at Palmetto Studios in Los Angeles, it... 

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Fans will recognize The Essex Green’s signature sound in this work, their first since 2006’s Cannibal Sea: stacks of harmonies, upbeat melodies telling melancholy tales, layers... 

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The debut full-length by Allison Crutchfield titled Tourist in This Town sonically pulls back the curtain on her life and places Crutchfield center stage, fully revealing... 

Will Butler has been a member of the band Arcade Fire for over 10 years. This is his first release under his own name. Policy is American music—in the tradition of... 

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- Debyyttialbumillaan päättymistä käsitellyt Mikael Cronin tekee paluun uudella "MCII"-albumillaan, jonka tematiikka pyörii vastaavasti uuden... 

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The Pet Parade marks a milestone for Eric D. Johnson, who celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. In some ways still a cult band, in other ways a time-tested act, Fruit... 

The Pet Parade marks a milestone for Eric D. Johnson, who celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. In some ways still a cult band, in other ways a time-tested act, Fruit... 

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Joyeron uusi albumi ''Release The Dogs'' on luonut oman liminaalisen tilan luonnollisen ja ihmisen tekemän välille, niiden rakenteiden välille, joita luomme pitääksemme itsemme... 

Washington, DC’s Gauche present A People’s History of Gauche, a collective catharsis of anger, frustration, and trauma through creativity. Jason P Barnett, Adrienne CN... 

Washington, DC’s Gauche present A People’s History of Gauche, a collective catharsis of anger, frustration, and trauma through creativity. Jason P Barnett, Adrienne CN... 

Imperial Teen’s releases over the past 20+ years have been pointed and specific diaries of musical celebration, windows into the hypersensitive personal drama of... 

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At last it can be told: the story of how, when the Mountain Goats got together in early March, 2020, it was to make not one album, but two: Getting Into Knives and... 

At last it can be told: the story of how, when the Mountain Goats got together in early March, 2020, it was to make not one album, but two: Getting Into Knives and... 

Songs for Pierre Chuvin is the Mountain Goats’ first all-boombox album since 2002’s All Hail West Texas.

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Songs for Pierre Chuvin is the Mountain Goats’ first all-boombox album since 2002’s All Hail West Texas. +++ I dedicate this tape to everybody who’s waited a... 

On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording in... 

On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording in... 

In the winter of 2019, Bob Mould bucked the era’s despair with his most melodic, upbeat album in ages, Sunshine Rock. Cut to spring of 2020, and he has this to say: “We’re... 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "Love at the Bottom of the Sea" -albumista vuodelta 2012. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "69 Love Songs" -albumista vuodelta 1999. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "Get Lost" -albumista vuodelta 1995. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "The Charm of the Highway Strip" -albumista vuodelta 1994. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "Holiday" -albumista vuodelta 1994. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees" -albumeista vuodelta 1992 ja 1991. 

On her third album, Little Scream offers us a reflection on class and poverty in America. Speed Queen began as bits of prose written while touring Cult Following across... 

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- Gatefold jacket with full lyrics
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Ever-evolving artist Bob Mould—whose face belongs on the Mount Rushmore of alternative music—decided to “write to the sunshine,” as he describes it, not because... 

Named Best Album of the 1990s by Magnet Magazine, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea gives us Jeff Mangum's powerful solo acoustic work, full horn-section marches, history, religion, and... 

The Love Language’s Baby Grand has its share of breakup songs—nobody writes those better than Stuart McLamb—but this time, even as something is being mourned, something... 

The Love Language’s Baby Grand has its share of breakup songs—nobody writes those better than Stuart McLamb—but this time, even as something is being mourned, something... 

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The Love Language is a fortunate by-product of frontman North Carolina native Stuart McLamb's rudderless mid-20s, where a tempest of breakup, inebriation, and incarceration found... 

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The old saying “you can’t go home again” is most often true. Life moves on and nothing stays the same, but that’s certainly not the case... 

The old saying “you can’t go home again” is most often true. Life moves on and nothing stays the same, but that’s certainly not the case for songwriter Greg Cartwright, who... 

Uusintajulkaisu Wye Oak -albumista "The Knot" (2009). 

Uusintajulkaisu Wye Oak -albumista "Civilian" (2011). 

Waxhatchee’s Saint Cloud is an unflinching self-examination whose raw, exposed narrative terrain is aided by a shift in sonic arrangements. While her last two records... 

A person whose words are so potent that they cause the people and beings around them to vibrate is said to have a “silver tongue.” It’s apt, then, that Mackenzie Scott—who... 

A person whose words are so potent that they cause the people and beings around them to vibrate is said to have a “silver tongue.” It’s apt, then, that Mackenzie Scott—who... 

The band that started it all, Superchunk, is back with a surprise new studio album! Acoustic Foolish is a complete re-recording of their classic 1994 album Foolish. Long... 

Redd kross kutsuu sinut tutkimaan uutta albumiaan ''Beyond the Door''. Albumia, joka sai inspiraationsa yhtyeen totaalisesta omistautumisesta pitämään helkutin hauskaa... 

Redd kross kutsuu sinut tutkimaan uutta albumiaan ''Beyond the Door''. Albumia, joka sai inspiraationsa yhtyeen totaalisesta omistautumisesta pitämään helkutin hauskaa... 

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The seminal full-length debut from legendary Pacific Northwest duo The Spinanes was released 25 years ago this month, and we are celebrating that milestone by reissuing it... 

The seminal full-length debut from legendary Pacific Northwest duo The Spinanes was released 25 years ago this month, and we are celebrating that milestone by reissuing it... 

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Following the Rock*A*Teens’ 2014 reunion at the Merge 25 festival and the reissue of their last LP Sweet Bird of Youth, the group returned to touring and playing live. Restless... 

Following the Rock*A*Teens’ 2014 reunion at the Merge 25 festival and the reissue of their last LP Sweet Bird of Youth, the group returned to touring and playing live. Restless... 

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For The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack flew to one another’s cities—she in Durham, North Carolina, he in Marfa, Texas—for a... 

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William Tyler composed the music for First Cow, the new A24 film directed by Kelly Reichardt, almost entirely on several of his guitars and a dulcimer. In First Cow, Kelly... 

“Early rise, start the fire, till the rows, pass the tithes.” So starts H.C. McEntire’s sophomore release, Eno Axis. It’s a set of directions delivered with assurance... 

“Early rise, start the fire, till the rows, pass the tithes.” So starts H.C. McEntire’s sophomore release, Eno Axis. It’s a set of directions delivered with assurance... 

From Hiss Golden Messenger songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor: I composed the songs that became Terms of Surrender with no guarantee that they would ever become a... 

From Hiss Golden Messenger songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor: I composed the songs that became Terms of Surrender with no guarantee that they would ever become a... 

Some words from M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger: William Tyler’s new record, Goes West, is the best music that he’s ever made. I’m sure of this because I... 

This limited-edition deluxe 4-CD/4-LP box set includes remastered reissues of three classic Hiss Golden Messenger albums—Bad Debt, Poor Moon, and Haw—plus Virgo Fool, a... 

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H.C. McEntire, frontwoman of Mount Moriah, strikes out on her own with her debut solo album LIONHEART. Stereogum describes her voice as “weary, wise, and bright as... 

Kuukauden levy - Lokakuu 2017... 

Mount Moriahin kolmas pitkäsoitto vie kolmihenkisen bändin musiikkia edelleen kohti uusia ulottuvuuksia. North Carolinasta, Yhdysvalloista, kotoisin oleva trio julkaisee... 

On October 2, 2012, Merge Records released the self-titled debut album from North Carolina’s Mount Moriah on LP. Available for the first time on vinyl, Mount Moriah was... 

M.C Taylorin luotsaama Hiss Golden Messenger julkaisee kuudennen studioalbuminsa 7. lokakuuta. Viimeksi vuonna 2014 “Lateness of Dancers" -menestysalbumin julkaisseen amerikkalaisen... 

Hiss Golden Messengerin viides albumi, “Lateness of Dancers", on tunnelmaltaan päinvastainen
aiemman levyn synkkyyteen verrattuna: avoin, luottavainen... 

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The incomparable Fucked Up have outdone themselves with this double-album epic, their debut full-length for Merge. Read an excerpt from the Owen Pallett-penned bio: I... 

The incomparable Fucked Up have outdone themselves with this double-album epic, their debut full-length for Merge. Read an excerpt from the Owen Pallett-penned bio: I... 

Much like the New Orleans–born artist who created it, Dawn Richard's Second Line is an unapologetic genre bender that pushes boundaries, expands possibilities, and... 

Hollie Cook combines her unique vocal talent with charming charisma to craft her own dynamic strand of lovers rock with enduring tropical vibes, weaving a path from her... 

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In the five years since Will Butler released his debut album, Policy, he’s toured the world both solo and as a member of Arcade Fire, released the Friday Night live... 

The second album from Melbourne, Australia’s Cable Ties brings a towering wall of ’70s hard rock and proto-punk to songs that explore hope, despair, and anger but... 

Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu yhdysvaltalaisen indie rock-yhtye Archers of Loafin albumista "Icky Mettle" vuodelta 1993. 

Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu yhdysvaltalaisen indie rock-yhtye Archers of Loafin albumista "Vee Vee" vuodelta 1995. 

Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu yhdysvaltalaisen indie rock-yhtye Archers of Loafin albumista "All the Nation's Airports" vuodelta 1996. 

Remasteroitu uudelleenjulkaisu yhdysvaltalaisen indie rock-yhtye Archers of Loafin albumista "White Trash Heroes" vuodelta 1998. 

Seeker is Mikal Cronin’s fourth and finest full-length to date. Recorded live with a crew of close friends and engineer Jason Quever at Palmetto... 

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The debut full-length by Allison Crutchfield titled Tourist in This Town sonically pulls back the curtain on her life and places Crutchfield center stage, fully revealing... 

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Crooked Fingersin uudelleenjulkaisut jatkuvat. Nyt vuorossa on yhtyeen neljäs levy "Dignity and Shame", joka seurasi vuonna 2003 julkaistua läpimurtoalbumia "Red... 

Crooked Fingersin uudelleenjulkaisut jatkuvat. Yhtyeen kolmas levy "Red Devil Dawn" ilmestyi vuonna 2003 ja siitä tuli yhtyeen läpimurtoalbumi. Bändin nokkamies Eric... 

- Debyyttialbumillaan päättymistä käsitellyt Mikael Cronin tekee paluun uudella "MCII"-albumillaan, jonka tematiikka pyörii vastaavasti uuden... 

"Pile" on Austinista, Texasista, tulevan A Giant Dogin kolmas pitkäsoitto ja ensimmäinen, joka on levytetty Merge Recordsille. Forging their friendships in the crucible... 

Will Butler has been a member of the band Arcade Fire for over 10 years. This is his first release under his own name. Policy is American music—in the tradition of... 

On June 17, Will Butler returns with Friday Night, an album of live performances from Butler’s tour supporting his debut album, Policy. Recorded mostly at Lincoln Hall... 

Maaliskuun 25:ntenä ilmestyvä Eric Bachmannin nimeä kantava debyyttilevy on pitkän linjan muusikon ensimmäinen soololevy. Aiemmin Archers of Loafissa ja Crooked Fingersissä vaikuttanut... 

The Pet Parade marks a milestone for Eric D. Johnson, who celebrates 20 years of Fruit Bats in 2021. In some ways still a cult band, in other ways a time-tested act, Fruit... 

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Fans will recognize The Essex Green’s signature sound in this work, their first since 2006’s Cannibal Sea: stacks of harmonies, upbeat melodies telling melancholy tales, layers... 

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Wild Flagissa ja Heliumissa toiminut viettelevä-ääninen Mary Timony julkaisee Ex Hex -yhtyeensä
kanssa Rips-nimisen debyyttilevyn. Washingtonilaisen punk-kolmikon... 

"Thief" oli Destroyerin kolmas albumi ja ensimmäinen, jolla esiintyi koko yhtye jokaisella raidalla. 

"City of Daughters" julkaistiin alun perin vuonna 1998. Pitchfork Media arvosti albumin 86:nneksi
listallaan parhaista 1990-luvun levyistä. 

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Joyeron uusi albumi ''Release The Dogs'' on luonut oman liminaalisen tilan luonnollisen ja ihmisen tekemän välille, niiden rakenteiden välille, joita luomme pitääksemme itsemme... 

Washington, DC’s Gauche present A People’s History of Gauche, a collective catharsis of anger, frustration, and trauma through creativity. Jason... 

Imperial Teen’s releases over the past 20+ years have been pointed and specific diaries of musical celebration, windows into the hypersensitive personal drama of... 

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At last it can be told: the story of how, when the Mountain Goats got together in early March, 2020, it was to make not one album, but two: Getting Into Knives and... 

Songs for Pierre Chuvin is the Mountain Goats’ first all-boombox album since 2002’s All Hail West Texas. +++ I dedicate this tape to everybody who’s waited a... 

On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording in... 

In the winter of 2019, Bob Mould bucked the era’s despair with his most melodic, upbeat album in ages, Sunshine Rock. Cut to spring of 2020, and he has this to say: “We’re... 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "Love at the Bottom of the Sea" -albumista vuodelta 2012. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "69 Love Songs" -albumista vuodelta 1999. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "Get Lost" -albumista vuodelta 1995. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "The Charm of the Highway Strip" -albumista vuodelta 1994. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "Holiday" -albumista vuodelta 1994. 

Uusintajulkaisu Stephen Merrittin The Magnetich Fields -yhtyeen "The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees" -albumeista vuodelta 1992 ja 1991. 

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On her third album, Little Scream offers us a reflection on class and poverty in America. Speed Queen began as bits of prose written while touring Cult Following across... 

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Ever-evolving artist Bob Mould—whose face belongs on the Mount Rushmore of alternative music—decided to “write to the sunshine,” as he describes it, not because... 

The Love Language’s Baby Grand has its share of breakup songs—nobody writes those better than Stuart McLamb—but this time, even as something is being mourned, something... 

H.C. McEntire, frontwoman of Mount Moriah, strikes out on her own with her debut solo album LIONHEART. Stereogum describes her voice as “weary, wise, and bright as... 

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Uusiseelantilainen rokkari David Kilgour on kotimaassaan iso nimi, ollut jo vuosia. Kilgour julkaisi ensimmäisen soololevynsä "Here Come the Cars" vuonna 1992. Kaksi... 

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- "Miracle Temple" on yhtyeen toinen albumi.
Vaikutteita äänimaailmaan yhtye on ottanut muun muassa rockista, popista, countrysta... 

The Love Language is a fortunate by-product of frontman North Carolina native Stuart McLamb's rudderless mid-20s, where a tempest of breakup, inebriation, and incarceration found... 

Little Screamin uuden levyn synty alkoi pääjehu Laurel Sprengelmeyerin visiteerattua ystäväänsä kaukaisessa brasilialaisessa yhteisössä.

 

Mount Moriahin kolmas pitkäsoitto vie kolmihenkisen bändin musiikkia edelleen kohti uusia ulottuvuuksia. North Carolinasta, Yhdysvalloista, kotoisin oleva trio julkaisee... 

Monissa liemissä keitetty Bob Mould julkaisee uuden albuminsa 25. maaliskuuta. "Patch the sky" sisältää biisejä, joiden kautta Mould luotaa viime aikojen rankkoja elämäkokemuksiaan. Levy... 

Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, one of the most celebrated and influential Merge albums of all time, turns 20 on February 10, 2018! 

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"Outer South" -levyn kappaleet syntyivät, kun yhtye oli kiertueella promotoimassa vuoden 2008 "Conor Oberst" -albumia. Lopputuloksena on ensimmäinen levy, joka... 

Conor Oberst on soittanut mm. Bright Eyesissa ja Monsters of Folk -ryhmässä yhdessä She&Himistä tutun M. Wardin kanssa. Vuonna 2007 Oberst lähti Mexicoon ja... 

The old saying “you can’t go home again” is most often true. Life moves on and nothing stays the same, but that’s certainly not the case for songwriter Greg Cartwright, who... 

Redd kross kutsuu sinut tutkimaan uutta albumiaan ''Beyond the Door''. Albumia, joka sai inspiraationsa yhtyeen totaalisesta omistautumisesta pitämään helkutin hauskaa... 

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The seminal full-length debut from legendary Pacific Northwest duo The Spinanes was released 25 years ago this month, and we are celebrating that milestone by reissuing it... 

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Following the Rock*A*Teens’ 2014 reunion at the Merge 25 festival and the reissue of their last LP Sweet Bird of Youth, the group returned to touring and playing live. Restless... 

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Chapel Hillistä, Pohjois-Carolinasta, kotoisin oleva Superchunk julkaisi vuonna 2010 ensimmäisen
levynsä sitten 2001. "Majesty Shredding" julkaistaan... 

Waxhatchee’s Saint Cloud is an unflinching self-examination whose raw, exposed narrative terrain is aided by a shift in sonic arrangements. While her last two records... 

A person whose words are so potent that they cause the people and beings around them to vibrate is said to have a “silver tongue.” It’s... 

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For The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack flew to one another’s cities—she in Durham, North Carolina, he in Marfa, Texas—for a... 

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"Modern Country" on William Tylerin neljäs pitkäsoitto ja ensimmäinen, joka on äänitetty muualla kuin kotoisessa Nashvillessä, Tenneseessä. Levytyshommia... 

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“Early rise, start the fire, till the rows, pass the tithes.” So starts H.C. McEntire’s sophomore release, Eno Axis. It’s a set of directions delivered with assurance... 

From Hiss Golden Messenger songwriter and bandleader M.C. Taylor: I composed the songs that became Terms of Surrender with no guarantee that they would ever become a... 

Some words from M.C. Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger: William Tyler’s new record, Goes West, is the best music that he’s ever made. I’m sure of this because I... 

This limited-edition deluxe 4-CD/4-LP box set includes remastered reissues of three classic Hiss Golden Messenger albums—Bad Debt, Poor Moon, and Haw—plus Virgo Fool, a... 

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Kuukauden levy - Lokakuu 2017... 

Hiss Golden Messengerin viides albumi, “Lateness of Dancers", on tunnelmaltaan päinvastainen
aiemman levyn synkkyyteen verrattuna: avoin, luottavainen... 

M.C Taylorin luotsaama Hiss Golden Messenger julkaisee kuudennen studioalbuminsa 7. lokakuuta. Viimeksi vuonna 2014 “Lateness of Dancers" -menestysalbumin julkaisseen amerikkalaisen... 

- Nashvillesta kotoisin oleva kitaristi William Tyler pistää kuulijat koetukselle huikealla tulkinnallaan uudella "Impossible Truth" -albumilla (8/10... 

The incomparable Fucked Up have outdone themselves with this double-album epic, their debut full-length for Merge. Read an excerpt from the Owen Pallett-penned bio: I... 

Hollie Cook combines her unique vocal talent with charming charisma to craft her own dynamic strand of lovers rock with enduring tropical vibes, weaving a path from her... 

Much like the New Orleans–born artist who created it, Dawn Richard's Second Line is an unapologetic genre bender that pushes boundaries, expands possibilities, and... 

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