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Random Axe: "Monster Babies"
Ho-ho-ho-shit. So we’ve known for a minute that Black Milk was doing a project with Guilty Simpson and Sean Price...
Jun 15, 2009
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Dinosaur Jr.: "Over It"
The rebirth of Dinosaur Jr. for 2007’s Beyond still strikes me as one of the more incongruous resurrections this decade,...
Jun 15, 2009
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Proem: "Hope Is Great But We Need Caffeine"
Appropriately traumatized by the arrival of premature twin daughters, IDM stalwart Richard Bailey has rebelled: he’s opted to convert...
Jun 12, 2009
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Jay-Z: "DOA (Death of Auto-tune)"
I decided recently not to write about Jay-Z anymore—to, with our readers’ best interests in mind, pass on The Blueprint...
Jun 10, 2009
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Lee Fields & the Expressions: "Ladies"
On the right day, summer in the city can feel like an early Spike Lee movie on mute, tension bled...
Jun 10, 2009
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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone: "Possible Love Interest (Ringtone)"
Discontented with releasing not one but two LPs this year, Owen Ashworth has gone and scored his first...
Jun 08, 2009
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Das Racist: "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper. Remix)"
If you Tweet your afternoon lunch plans and nobody’s around to read it, does it make a sound? In the...
Jun 08, 2009
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Sunset Rubdown: "Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!"
On the awesome and awesomely titled Dragonslayer Spencer Krug sounds at once violable and volatile, his compositions looser but tougher,...
Jun 03, 2009
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Nisennenmondai: "Destination Tokyo"
This Japanese trio’s krautrock comes kaleidoscopic. Previous efforts have etched grooves in the ground with a fucking backhoe, scraping distorted...
Jun 03, 2009