Music

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   1. La Otracina: Blood Moon Riders

   No need to be fancy—just gaze into the cover of Blood Moon Riders and you’ll quickly grasp what dimension this heavy psychedelic trio (earthly hq: Brooklyn) calls home. Still, few bands...read more

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   2. Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

   Scotland’s finest post-rock outfit delivers – wait a minute, let’s look at that “post-rock” tag these guys always get. Is there more of a misnomer for Mogwai’s style? It’s nothing but rock: big boo...read more

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   3. White Hills: H-p1

   I am a massive fan of the rock that is psychedelic, and honestly, I have never heard a White Hills record that blew me away—which is what all psych-rock fans want, to be blown to pieces by the stuf...read more

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   4. Prurient: Bermuda Drain

   One of New York's signature artists is reborn, severely. The noise/power-electronics magus (and Hospital Recordings capo) Dominick Fernow, a.k.a. Prurient, has spent the past couple of years in a d...read more

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   5. Fire! with Jim O'Rourke: Unreleased?

   A monster record featuring some of planet Earth's heaviest hitters, the curiously named Unreleased? makes adventurous avant-jazz positively groove. The quartet -- Jim O'Rourke on guitar and synth, ...read more

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   6. Sunn O))): ØØ Void

   Sunn O)))'s second album was its first great statement, and after going out of print a few times on a few different labels (and at least once with a bonus-disc of collabs with Nurse with Wound -- n...read more

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