The Cold Bloom of Winter — Post-Punk Stalwarts Permafrost Return with “Tears & Bullets” EP
Permafrost returns with Tears & Bullets, a three-track EP released via their own Fear of Music imprint. It arrives with the quiet assurance of a group that has learned how to wait—how to…
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NYC Art-Rockers Ecce Shnak’s “Shadows Grow Fangs” EP Bites Down on Love, Algorithms, and Philosophy
New York City’s art-rock ensemble Ecce Shnak runs on surplus voltage, a band that sounds like five brains arguing happily in real time. At the center is David Roush: composer, bassist, and one…
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London’s Huxlxy Lounges in Hedonistic Decay in Vampiric Video for “Whet” — Residency at Dublin Castle in Camden Announced!
London’s Huxlxy is a strange confection: sweet on the surface, quietly corrosive underneath, one of those grinning spirits who slips into pop’s bloodstream and subtly rearranges its décor. His…
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From Lisbon to Little Portugal — Toronto Post-Punk Act Theo Vandenhoff Summons the Spirit of Amália Rodrigues
ever captured in her mournful call Amália steals our sorrow… In the long, low hum of Portuguese history, no voice cuts quite as cleanly as Amália Rodrigues, the singer who carried fado,…
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Atlanta Darkwave Duo Now After Nothing Process Turmoil Through Blurred Visions in Video for “Entangled”
Entangled, the new single from Atlanta’s Now After Nothing, opens with guitars that quiver like heat rising from a long stretch of asphalt: tones stretched into trembling streaks, each one…
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David Byrne Expands “Who Is the Sky?” Tour With Spring North American Dates
The release of David Byrne’s Who Is the Sky?, his first full-length since 2018’s American Utopia, landed on Matador like a satellite breaking through cloud cover—wired with a gleaming,…
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Ultravox Release Expanded Deluxe Edition of Their Singles Compilation “The Collection”
It’s five and I’m driving home againIt’s hard to believe that it’s my last timeThe man on the wireless cries againIt’s over, it’s over Ultravox remain one…
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“In Plain Sight” — Calgary New Wave Duo WANTS Deliver a Mid-’80s Film Soundtrack From a Parallel Timeline
Your burning heart — you give it soul I want to run to the top of a straight line For a chance at a good life Some albums feel like they arrive mid-stride, already breathing, already pacing…
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“The Return of The Durutti Column” Receives 45th Anniversary Reissue on Vinyl and Limited Edition CD and Book
There are records whose birth feels closer to a fevered confession than a planned debut, and The Return of The Durutti Column belongs to that unruly family. Its origins read like a case study…
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The Real Anthem Shine From Within in “See Angels”
The Real Anthem is a new quartet from Arizona that combines anthemic post-punk, biting alternative rock, and just a dash of shoegaze and post-rock textures. The band features the many talents…
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