Albums Of The Week: Bomba Estéreo | Deja

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Bomba Estéreo’s new album Deja is the band's long-awaited first album in four years. Deja is about leaving behind the unnecessary baggage in our lives...

Albums Of The Week: Face To Face | No Way Out But Through

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Iconic West Coast rock band Face To Face’s 10th studio album No Way Out But Through is a record that brims with intelligent songwriting, arena-sized...

Albums Of The Week: Andrew W.K. | God Is Partying

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Internationally acclaimed musician Andrew W.K. marks another extraordinarily intense chapter in his fabled and perplexing tenure as a pop culture icon with his fifth rock...

Albums Of The Week: God Damn | Raw Coward

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ In 2020, Black Country mainstays God Damn were reborn with the release of their uncompromising self-titled third album, one that truly felt like they’d...

Albums Of The Week: The Bevis Frond | Little Eden

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Set against the austerity of post-modernism, The Bevis Frond’s new album Little Eden offers a psychedelically hewn panoramic take on modern Britain punctuated with pure...

Albums Of The Week: Sleigh Bells | Texis

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Texis is the sixth album from Sleigh Bells — producer/guitarist Derek Miller and singer Alexis Krauss — and delivers more of the controlled chaos that...

Albums Of The Week: Daniel Romano’s Outfit | Cobra Poems

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Earth is a drum, they say. Shrouded by a magnetic halo that beats and oscillates in traceable resonance. All heaven can bear witness to...

Albums Of The Week: Low | Hey What

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Focusing on their craft, staying out of the fray, and holding fast their faith to find new ways to express the discord and delight of...

Albums Of The Week: Metallica | The Black Album 30th Anniversary Edition / The...

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Metallica mark the 30th anniversary of its self-titled fifth album — aka The Black Album — with two landmark releases: A 30th-anniversary expanded edition and...

Albums Of The Week: Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Spanish Model

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “In 2018, Elvis Costello had a dream where he heard his entire This Year’s Model album performed in Spanish. He reached out to frequent collaborator...

Albums Of The Week: Amyl And The Sniffers | Comfort to Me

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Comfort To Me is the second album from Amyl And The Sniffers, the Melbourne, Australia rock band fronted by Amy Taylor. She and her bandmates...

Now Hear This: Massage | Still Life

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The kind of music Massage makes — sunny, bittersweet, tender — is less a proper genre than a minor zip code nested within guitar pop....

Now Hear This: Manzanita Y Su Conjunto | Trujillo, Perú 71- 74

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Berardo Hernández — better known as Manzanita — first surfaced during the psychedelic cumbia craze. At the head of the scene were the magnificent Los...

Classic Album Review: System of a Down | Toxicity

This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Now that the ranks...

Classic Album Review: Bif Naked | Purge

This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Oh, she’s purging all...

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