Miami band Torche have always been like heavy metal’s cotton candy, and their recent fifth album, July’s Admission (Relapse), is their most delicious yet. Since rising from the ashes of stoner-rock group Floor in 2004, Torche have specialized in what they call “thunder pop”—a hard-hitting, wall-of-sound brand of sludgy doom metal that’s topped off with […]
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Sequoyah Murray was born to make uncategorizable pop
Twenty-two-year-old Atlanta singer and multi-instrumentalist Sequoyah Murray grew up in a musical family, and you can tell. He makes music the way a dolphin swims—effortlessly, playfully, and with supreme confidence. Murray’s remarkable debut full-length, Before You Begin (Thrill Jockey), recalls Prince not so much in its approach or themes as in its ambitiously openhearted eclecticism. […]
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Natural Information Society make the stage a home—and vice versa
Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado of Natural Information Society help give the Chicago collective’s transcendent minimalism a family feeling.
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Mike Boyd of Thrill Jockey on Arca’s punk-as-fuck Pitchfork set
Current musical obsessions of Thrill Jockey publicist Mike Boyd, recording engineer Doug Malone, and Reader associate editor Jamie Ludwig
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Monday marks Oozing Wound’s final show with founding drummer Kyle Reynolds
The thrash revivalists are already on the hunt for a new drummer.
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David Yow stars in a brand-new video for Wrekmeister Harmonies
The creepy clip and with the dark ambient project’s new record are released today.
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Haley Fohr bursts her own bubble in Circuit des Yeux
On the new In Plain Speech, the local singer-songwriter opens her hermetic music to the outside world—and brings on a bigger, more colorful cast of collaborators than ever before.
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Oozing Wound cut loose in new video for ‘Going Through the Motions Til I Die’
The local metal trio readies the release of their new LP with a hilarious new clip.
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A reunited Liturgy comes to Land & Sea Department
The fractured Brooklyn outfit reform for a reissue, tour, and new record.
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Oozing Wound and Black Pus ready a split LP
The loud and weird collaboration is due out on Thrill Jockey on 6/17.
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How do record stores get such great used vinyl?
When record stores aren’t buying used vinyl directly from the public, they might find a carload of goodies at the Chicagoland Record Collectors Show.
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Beck’s half-awake Morning Phase and 15 more record reviews
Ten Reader writers review 16 records, including Angel Olsen’s otherworldly folk, and more.
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In Rotation: Jake Austen of Roctober on a sitar cover of the Banana Splits
Current musical obsessions of Roctober‘s Jake Austen and WHPK’s Mario Smith
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Soundcheck: The Body and Oozing Wound get heavy at the Empty Bottle
Thrill Jockey’s two heaviest bands sit down and talk about metal and friendship.
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More material from Oozing Wound
Local thrash trio Oozing Wound, whose debut full-legth came out a month ago, drop some brutal new jams.