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Golden Age Thursday Samples: The Gap Band’s “Yearning For Your Love” (1980) Gets Positioned Alongside Hip-hop Heavyweights like Nas (1994) & The Pharcyde (1995)

Golden Age Thursday Samples: The Gap Band’s “Yearning For Your Love” (1980) Gets Positioned Alongside Hip-hop Heavyweights like Nas (1994) & The Pharcyde (1995)

Part of the art of finding a sample is understanding the nuances of the songs you’re hearing and the thought process of expanding these indistinguishable moments into pure magic. It isn’t always the hook of a classic funk song that grabs the attention of the producer, and it isn’t always the driving melodies of a […]

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Ryan Solee of The Builders and The Butchers Dances in The Wreckage of ‘No Tomorrow’ (ALBUM PREMIERE/INTERVIEW)

Ryan Solee of The Builders and The Butchers Dances in The Wreckage of ‘No Tomorrow’ (ALBUM PREMIERE/INTERVIEW)

Portland-based band The Builders and The Butchers will be releasing their new album, which marks their seventh, on April 3rd, via Badman Recording Co. It’s titled No Tomorrow, and as the title might suggest, it has plenty to do with the current apocalyptic feeling of existence. And yet, within the fiery imagery and doom, there […]

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Ryan Solee of The Builders and The Butchers Dances in The Wreckage of ‘No Tomorrow’ (ALBUM PREMIERE/INTERVIEW)

Ryan Solee of The Builders and The Butchers Dances in The Wreckage of ‘No Tomorrow’ (ALBUM PREMIERE/INTERVIEW)

Portland-based band The Builders and The Butchers will be releasing their new album, which marks their seventh, on April 3rd, via Badman Recording Co. It’s titled No Tomorrow, and as the title might suggest, it has plenty to do with the current apocalyptic feeling of existence. And yet, within the fiery imagery and doom, there […]

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Evil Twin Bring Live Rock Experimentation Into The Studio For Debut Album ‘Upside Down We’re Flying’ (INTERVIEW)

Evil Twin Bring Live Rock Experimentation Into The Studio For Debut Album ‘Upside Down We’re Flying’ (INTERVIEW)

Brooklyn-based Indie Rock band Evil Twin released their debut full-length album, Upside Down We’re Flying, on March 13th, following on from an EP and the release of several singles. It draws on a love of multiple 90s music genres and creates an immersive atmosphere you might associate with psych rock while experimenting with song structure. […]

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Aubrie Sellers Finds Power in the Quiet: Attachment Theory and the Art of Being Raw (FEATURE)

Aubrie Sellers Finds Power in the Quiet: Attachment Theory and the Art of Being Raw (FEATURE)

Aubrie Sellers has never mistaken volume for truth. In a music industry that often rewards bold personalities and constant visibility, Sellers has built her career in a quieter, more deliberate way—one shaped as much by introspection as instinct. It hasn’t always been easy. But it has led her to Attachment Theory, a record that may […]

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Spencer Thomas and the Art of Influence: Finding Himself Inside the Songs of Others On New Album ‘Cynical Vision’ (FEATURE/ALBUM PREMIERE)

Spencer Thomas and the Art of Influence: Finding Himself Inside the Songs of Others On New Album ‘Cynical Vision’ (FEATURE/ALBUM PREMIERE)

Spencer Thomas doesn’t pretend to have invented himself out of thin air. In fact, he’ll tell you the opposite—plainly, even cheerfully. “If you like Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, you’ll probably like my music,” he says. “I’m pretty shameless about that.” It’s not false modesty. It’s a working philosophy, one that has come into sharper focus […]

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Amplifiers to Oblivion: Sunn O))) Reclaim Their Drone Throne On Self-Titled Sub Pop Release (ALBUM REVIEW)

Amplifiers to Oblivion: Sunn O))) Reclaim Their Drone Throne On Self-Titled Sub Pop Release (ALBUM REVIEW)

The long-running, Seattle, Washington-based drone metal act Sunn O)))))) returns with their first new music in seven years, as their tenth album is a self-titled offering and their first for new label Sub Pop.  The duo of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson has been performing for over thirty years, pushing avant-garde metal and noise rock […]

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Charley Crockett Wraps Up Daring Sagebrush Trilogy With Ethereal & Lofty ‘Age of the Ram’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Charley Crockett Wraps Up Daring Sagebrush Trilogy With Ethereal & Lofty ‘Age of the Ram’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Charley Crockett has always been a prolific artist, stretching the limits of his imaginative approach to country, which toes the line between tradition and the lofty. Recently, though, the long-standing troubadour has been releasing distinct, genre-altering releases, starting with 2025’s Lonesome Drifter and Dollar A Day, which arrived a few short months later. These two […]

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Thundercat Returns With Dazzling & Empathetic LP ‘Distracted’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Thundercat Returns With Dazzling & Empathetic LP ‘Distracted’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

There has always been a warm, welcoming familiarity to Thundercat’s voice. The innovative contemporary multidisciplinary artist expresses a charming humanity through his dream-like falsetto, and more of the world takes notice as time goes by. The artist’s jovial approach to the harshness of reality and expert jazz fusion work has led him to A-list collaborations, […]

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‘Indigo Park’- A Genre-Bending Triumph Born From Bruce Hornsby’s ‘Creative Exhaustion’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

‘Indigo Park’- A Genre-Bending Triumph Born From Bruce Hornsby’s ‘Creative Exhaustion’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Bruce Hornsby didn’t want to record this album. After a five-year run of musically intrepid and critically acclaimed studio LPs – Absolute Zero, Non-Secure Connection, ‘Flicted, Deep Sea Vents – as well as entire albums’ worth of still-unreleased material, the virtuoso pianist suddenly found himself “creatively fried.” Despite his best, well-intentioned efforts to step away from songwriting […]

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Maria Taylor Makes Triumphant Return With Beautiful, Affecting Indie Pop Songs on ‘Story’s End’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Maria Taylor Makes Triumphant Return With Beautiful, Affecting Indie Pop Songs on ‘Story’s End’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

Maria Taylor started working on Story’s End—her latest LP—six years ago, beginning with a handful of quiet, stripped-down demos in her home studio. There was no real rush to follow up her 2019 self-titled effort, but fractures in both her marriage and a close friendship found her leaning back into these songs once again. The […]

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30 Years Ago Today – Beastie Boys Release Funky Instrumental Compilation ‘The In Sound From Way Out!’ (Watch "Sabrosa" Live Bonnaroo ’09)

30 years ago today (4/2/96), The Beastie Boys flipped the script with The In Sound from Way Out!, a vibey, fully instrumental compilation that highlighted just how deep their musical chops ran beyond rap. Borrowing its title and retro-futurist aesthetic from the Perrey and Kingsley album of the same name,…