March 29, 2017

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Thanks For Coming - "Half Step Back" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

March 29, 2017

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Thanks For Coming - "Half Step Back" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

Originally recorded solo on the Fall Becomes Winter EP, "Half Step Back" is given new life as a full-band arrangement, a song as immediate as they come and inescapably endearing.

March 28, 2017

by: Connor Bush

Reviews

Bonny Doon - "Bonny Doon" | Album Review

March 28, 2017

by: Connor Bush

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Bonny Doon - "Bonny Doon" | Album Review

As the weather continues to warm, it’s believable that the album will continue to gain impact, comforting weary listeners as they spend time with loved ones, make small talk at odd barbecues, and contemplate whether they are making any progress at all in this weird life.

March 27, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Bucket - "Making of a Shape" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

March 27, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Bucket - "Making of a Shape" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

Just as the song comes together, so it comes apart, embracing devolution and collapsing at a whim, bending chords into oblivion and shifting rhythms without warning... and then right back together again.

March 27, 2017

by: Joshua Robbins

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Pissed Jeans - "Why Love Now" | Album Review

March 27, 2017

by: Joshua Robbins

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Pissed Jeans - "Why Love Now" | Album Review

In earlier albums there is a sense that Pissed Jeans are skewering femininity and masculinity, but never with such precision as on Why Love Now.

March 24, 2017

by: Emma Shepard

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The Spirit of The Beehive - "Pleasure Suck" | Album Review

March 24, 2017

by: Emma Shepard

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The Spirit of The Beehive - "Pleasure Suck" | Album Review

On Pleasure Suck, Philadelphia five-piece Spirit of The Beehive create a noisy landscape that shape shifts at every turn. Sometimes hollow and sweet, sometimes brash and arresting- the album offers notes of the band's trademark sounds while welcoming something completely new.

March 23, 2017

by: JP Basileo

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Parlor Walls - "Opposites" | Album Review

March 23, 2017

by: JP Basileo

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Parlor Walls - "Opposites" | Album Review

On their new album, Opposites, singer Alyse Lamb doesn’t so much wear her heart on her sleeve so much as she does throw it on the floor in a blood-spattered mess, piecing it back together with a magnifying glass and a pair of tweezers.

March 22, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Old Maybe - "Pink Pigging" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

March 22, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Old Maybe - "Pink Pigging" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

The trio of Jazz Adam, Nina Ryser (Palberta) and Ricardo Balmaseda, play with the deconstructed, disoriented, and unpredictable nature of perception, contorting reality to its strangest form.

March 21, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Bleary Eyed - "Speaking Just Fine" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

March 21, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Bleary Eyed - "Speaking Just Fine" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

The band have come a long way since the release of Cherry Blossom, dipping their mopey sound into disorienting shoegaze and unwieldy slacker punk, creating a new record that is brilliantly weird and gloriously detached.

March 16, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Op-ed: “RTJ3, Political Art, and the Precarious Balance Between The Margins and Mainstream”

March 16, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Op-ed: “RTJ3, Political Art, and the Precarious Balance Between The Margins and Mainstream”

At what point does catering to the mainstream become an artist’s moral imperative? At what point does eschewing the attention of the masses undercut the artist’s credibility?

March 15, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Elvis Depressedly - "Holo Pleasures/California Dreamin'" | Album Review

March 15, 2017

by: dan goldin

Reviews

Elvis Depressedly - "Holo Pleasures/California Dreamin'" | Album Review

The two records complement each other very well, but remain distinct enough in orchestration and texture for each to offer unique sadboi magnetism.

March 14, 2017

by: dan goldin

Fuzzy Meadows

Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (February 27th - March 12th)

March 14, 2017

by: dan goldin

Fuzzy Meadows

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web.

March 14, 2017

by: Hannah Liuzzo

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Halfsour - "Charm School" | Album Review

March 14, 2017

by: Hannah Liuzzo

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Halfsour - "Charm School" | Album Review

Charm School deserves praise for the mere fact that it’s evidence of what a creative mind will do when it’s left in dull and uninspiring surroundings--establish its own internal environment, create a reason to exist, a purpose, an excuse to wake up and keep going.

March 13, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Wild Pink - "Wild Pink" | Album Review

March 13, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Trying, figuring, and contemplating; all of these verbs could be used in discussion of this record, as the lyrics reflect an overthinking introvert’s painstaking mental gymnastics.

March 10, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Operator Music Band - "Puzzlephonics I & II" | Album Review

March 10, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Operator Music Band - "Puzzlephonics I & II" | Album Review

With such a mesmerizing full-length debut, the future path of Operator Music Band is polished smooth with analog electronics and boundless inspiration.

March 9, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Grandkids - "This Guitars" | Album Review

March 9, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Grandkids - "This Guitars" | Album Review

This Guitars owes its ability to hold your attention to the interlocking of its various elements and each track’s patiently explored possibilities.

March 8, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Caitlin Pasko - "The Still" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

March 8, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Caitlin Pasko - "The Still" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

Pasko's music may stem from loss, but the sound is reminiscent to watching a flower bloom (rather than decay) after a harsh winter. This is merely the beginning of the next chapter.

March 8, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Decorum - "Dead Wait" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

March 8, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Decorum - "Dead Wait" | Post-Trash Exclusive Premiere

It all gives off a feeling of hearing something from a distance. Disconcerting the listener while at the same time driving them to want to hear more, to strive to find the source.

March 8, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Sean Eldon - "You Didn't" | Album Review

March 8, 2017

by: dan goldin

Reviews

Sean Eldon - "You Didn't" | Album Review

You Didn’t is a pastiche of many musical landscapes, but that’s a boring description, so let’s name them: Qualls combines the technical musical mania of math-rock, the 90s guitar-pop that jingle-jangles with radio-single accessibility, and a conversational lyricism so down-to-earth it’s like your hanging out with him.

March 7, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Vox and the Hound - "Worn" | Exclusive Post-Trash Premiere

March 7, 2017

by: dan goldin

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Vox and the Hound - "Worn" | Exclusive Post-Trash Premiere

"Worn," the album's second single is captivating post-punk with a deep appreciation of art-pop and Talking Heads' skewed whimsy.

March 7, 2017

by: Phillipe Roberts

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Birthing Hips - "No Sorry" | Album Review

March 7, 2017

by: Phillipe Roberts

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Birthing Hips - "No Sorry" | Album Review

No Sorry, the long-awaited tape-de- force from Boston darlings Birthing Hips, is packed with thrills from end to end, but even the mightiest tape can't contain the downright ridiculous amount of personality on display when these four kooks collide live.