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Plus The Jesus Lizard, Kal Marks, The War on Drugs, Fentanyl, Cursive, and The Bug
Plus hear all of them in a band-curated playlist
Plus Midwife, Dummy, Party Dozen, The The, Mercury Rev, Public Opinion, and Fat Dog
Plus Duster, Nails, Los Bitchos, Seefeel
This month is less about riffs than records that go hard in entirely different ways
Plus Uniform, Illuminati Hotties, Ka, The Softies, Spirit of the Beehive, Nicole Miglis, and Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd
Recorded three years before ‘Stop Making Sense,’ this concert film is the new wave legends at their psychic-groove best
Plus Mavi, Oso Oso, Fucked Up, Belong, and Spoon
Before the fall schedule heats up, here are some outstanding metal albums you should hear
Plus JPEGMAFIA, Blood, Moses Sumney and Poison Ruin
Plus Klein, State Faults, Respire, Dave Harrington and Pat Metheny
Everything we’re obsessed with this month, from avant garde Japanese new wave to ’80s sophisti-pop to Baltimore club
Plus Oneida, Beachwood Sparks, and Zelienople
Plus Cassandra Jenkins, Jay Worthy and Dam-Funk, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Meridian Brothers, and Orquesta Akokan
Plus Previous Industries, SML, The Drin, Dirty Three, 200 Stab Wounds, Danny Paul Grody Duo, Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance and Sour Widows
A perfect prog album, one rarely acknowledged as such.
Plus Kronos Quartet and friends, Aseethe, Royal Headache, Bangladeafy, and Sufjan Stevens
Argentinian jazz-funk, abstract coldwave, post-punk-funk, contemporary cumbia, and more