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The ALBUM Section: May 2024

May 29, 2024June 5, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Billie Eilish, Camera Obscura, Girl and Girl, Kate Hudson, Look to the East Look to the West, Mdou Moctar, Merge Records, Shellac, To All Trains, Touch and Go Records

Digging into some of the month’s best new titles

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The ALBUM Section: February 2024

February 29, 2024February 29, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Alynda Segarra, Chelsea Wolfe, Helium, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Laura Jane Grace, Mary Timony, Merge Records, Nonesuch Records

In the listening room with the latest from Hurray for the Riff Raff and Mary Timony

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The ALBUM Section: January 2024

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day, Little Rope, Loma Vista, Merge Records, Mike Dirnt, Reprise Records, Sarah Jaffe, SLEATER-KINNEY, Torres, Tre Cool, What an enormous room

Digging into the latest releases from Green Day, Sleater-Kinney and Torres

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Indie Rock Pop Power Pop Rock 

Teenage Fanclub: Make It Last Forever

September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments A Catholic Education, Bandwagonesque, Boy Hairdressers, Merge Records, Norman Blake, Nothing Lasts Forever, Raymond McGinley, Teenage Fanclub

Talking with group co-founder Raymond McGinley about their shimmering new album

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Indie Rock Rock 

What Can We Do: Superchunk’s I Hate Music Turns 10

August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 Ted Miller 0 Comments 10th anniversary, 2013, I Hate Music, Jim Wilbur, Jon Wurster, Laura Ballance, Mac McCaughan, Merge Records, Superchunk

Looking back on a bright spot of the band’s storied second act

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Indie Rock Pop Rock 

The Clientele’s Alasdair MacLean Isn’t Afraid to Put His Ass on the Line

August 3, 2023August 3, 2023 Jim Allen 0 Comments 2023, Alasdair MacLean, Alicia Macanas, drum loops, I Am Not There Anymore, James Hornsey, Jessica Griffin, Mark Keen, Merge Records, samples, The Clientele

The band goes for the gusto on dizzying double album I Am Not There Anymore

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ALBUMS: January 2023 In Review

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments Belle and Sebastian, Fucked Up, Late Developers, Loma Vista, Margo Price, Matador Records, Merge Records, One Day, Strays, Stuart Murdoch

Looking at new albums from Margo Price, Belle and Sebastian and Fucked Up

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Indie Rock Punk Remembrance Rock 

Hamish Kilgour Gone At 65

December 5, 2022December 6, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments David Kilgour, Flying Nun Records, Hamish Kilgour, Merge Records, New Zealand, The Clean, The Mad Scene

The influential New Zealand musician and songwriter had been missing for several days

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ALBUMS: August 2022 In Review

August 31, 2022September 1, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 2022, Atlantic Records, Bleed Out, Fueled By Ramen, Julia Jacklin, Merge Records, Mountain Goats, Panic! At the Disco, Polyvinyl Records, PRE PLEASURE, Viva Las Vengeance

New LPs by Julia Jacklin, Panic! At The Disco and The Mountain Goats are in order for late summer

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Redd Kross’s Neurotica at 35: Still Playing Their Songs

July 8, 2022July 8, 2022 Kathy Fennessy 0 Comments 1987, 35th Anniversary, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Jeff McDonald, Merge Records, Red Cross, Red Kross, Redd Kross, Steven McDonald, Teen Babes From Monsanto, that dog., The Bangles, The Go-Gos, The Muffs, Third Eye, Tommy Erdelyi, Tommy Ramone

Looking back at the album where the teen babes from Monsanto became men

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ALBUMS: Unsubscribing to Arcade Fire (Is Harder Than It Looks)

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments “Su, “Sunflower”, 2022, ABBA, Achtung Baby, Arcade Fire, Columbia Records, Merge Records, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, U2, WE, Win Butler

WE is supposed to be the anthemic Canadian ensemble’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind, so why do they seem like the ones left behind?

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Indie Rock 

ALBUMS: The Defeatist Beauty of Superchunk’s Wild Loneliness

February 26, 2022 Ted Miller 0 Comments John Wilbur, Jon Wurster, Laura Ballance, Mac MacCaughan, Merge Records, North Carolina, Superchunk, Wild Loneliness

No one’s ever had a career like the North Carolina indie-pop punks, who’ve just released the fourth great album of their second act era

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Bob Mould Navigates the American Crisis

November 3, 2020November 3, 2020 Jason Perri 0 Comments 2020, American Crisis, Bob Mould, Husker Du, Jason Narducy, Jon Wurster, Merge Records, Siberian Butterfly, Sugar, Workbook

The Minneapolis punk legend rages and reflects on life in 2020 

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Hiss Golden Messenger: The Diary of a Road Warrior and Family Man

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019 j. poet 0 Comments Durham, Hiss Golden Messenger, M.C. Taylor, Merge Records, North Carolina, San Francisco, The Court and Spark, Waylon Jennings

M.C. Taylor discusses his longtime band’s 11th LP, Terms of Surrender

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The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs, Ranked

October 25, 2019October 25, 2019 Dan Weiss 1 Comment 1999, 69 Love Songs, LD Beghtol, Merge Records, Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields

A belatedly mathematical celebration of an indie pop masterwork for its 20th anniversary

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