Sixteen years after Karate’s final studio release, the band’s influential music—which blends emo, slowcore, and jazz—is entirely out of print.
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Amira Jazeera’s dreamy pop makes a perfect quarantine soundtrack
Take it from her roommate, who hears every note.
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Ulcerate confront the inevitably of death and tragedy on their latest album
New Zealand metal trio Ulcerate look into the face of tragedy through a beautifully constructed, unrelentingly dark haze.
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Aweful keep their chins up while everything breaks down
Despite the pandemic and an apartment fire, local punk trio Aweful have managed to create and release an infectiously fun new video.
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São Paulo big band Bixiga 70 cook up a life-giving brew
The Afro-Brazilian grooves on Bixiga 70’s Quebra Cabeça could get your feet moving on a mortuary slab.
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Greenmachine reissue a sludgy, noisy cult favorite
Kendrick Lamar was nine years old when Japanese stoner-metal freaks Greenmachine named their debut album D.A.M.N.
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Mexican Werewolf front man Rick Linus helped Chicago metal feel like a family
Remembering Mexican Werewolf front man Rick Linus through his band’s last album
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Another Sunny Day wrote a theme song for the disillusioned
The late-80s solo project of UK songwriter Harvey Williams still resonates with indie-pop misanthropes.
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HHY & the Macumbas soundtrack the bonfire at the end of the world
Portuguese collective HHY & the Macumbas release a live album that captures their entrancing flood of percussion, brass, and “skull cave echo.”
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Silicone Prairie sound like new wave played at the wrong speed
Hyperactive Kansas City punk act Silicone Prairie recently released an EP that includes a cover of notorious Chicago band the Mentally Ill.