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Kurt Vile
This has held true for the seven solo records to the Philadelphian's credit in the last fourteen years, Vile serving up a slacker shaded canvas painted with winding guitar solos and idiosyncratic improvisation. Collaborations with Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon and the late John Prine have followed since the breakthrough lo-fi grit of fourth album Smoke Ring For My Halo, Vile's roving sonic footprint uninhibited as ever. With Pavement and R.E.M. producer...
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Fear of the Dawn
Jack White
Since he founded his record label and pressing plant Third Man Records, Jack White has been a loyal ambassador of bringing new and vintage sounds to the masses. But his solo career, which started with 2012's Blunderbuss, has progressively turned more challenging and forward-thinking. And though no one can deny he's a stickler for a good, bluesy riff, the former White Stripes leader has opted to maintain that tricky balance, if not topple it...
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Growing Up
The Linda Lindas
A May 2021 performance of their new song "Racist, Sexist, Boy" at the LA Public Library turned the band - formed of sisters Mila and Lucia de la Garza, their cousin Eloise Wong and family friend Bela Salzar - into overnight sensations. Perhaps the facts of the two minute viral video - the library setting, the contrast of the girl's affable demeanor with the righteous fury of their rip-roaring anthem - distracted from a fundamental truth; "Racist,...
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Further Joy
The Regrettes
The Regrettes ' sophomore album - garage rock inspired How Do You Love? - was released in the second half of 2019, but for obvious reasons the following year meant a prolonged period of separation for the band. Finally reconvening, twelve months later and out in the Californian desert, Further Joy became the scrapbook for a year's worth of introspection and upheaval. For frontwoman Lydia Night, this album was also an opportunity to outgrow their earlier,...
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