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8 Lines or Less covers albums from small, often regional bands with the occasional major release thrown in. The idea is to give coverage to artists self-releasing great, under-appreciated and under-covered albums. If you’ve got a band and you’ve been grinding away at getting coverage, drop us a line and we’ll check out your stuff. [...]
1. Introduction (music: Shuggie Otis – “Pling!”) “Privacy Please” is many things at the moment; this mixtape series, my blog platform for longform writing about music and recording equipment, records, and other thoughts, and a record label of sorts that I’m in the process of starting in order to release physical versions of my music [...]
Exploding in Sound has just released a great, and perhaps more importantly, free compilation. Featuring a number of FPM favorites (Buildings, METZ, Mrs. Magician, The Men*), it’s available on Bandcamp right now for the low, low price of nothing. Thee Oh Sees, Corin Tucker Band, and Gaytheist also make an appearance. If you missed out [...]
There’s something cringe-worthy about the title of the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor that I’ve yet to put my finger on. Luckily, the album is a solid return to form (or insert preferred music journalism trope, critic shorthand) for the Canadian group. Track opener “Mladic” is phenomenal and, unexpectedly enough, faintly reminiscent of Swans’ opener [...]
Breathe Like a Dragon was a good record. Certainly not perfect by any stretch, but insofar as the bedroom recording artist genre is concerned, it was an incredible (if not slightly inconsistent) debut. Dre Perish has a great ear for melody and a voice to go along with it and they served him well on [...]
It has only been two short years since the phenomenal My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky was released, but the Swans are already gearing up to release a new album entitled The Seer. “The Apostate,” the first official release from the album, evolves the sound of My Father further into [...]
Crystal Castles have just released a new track entitled “Plague” via Soundcloud. No word if it’s part of a bigger/upcoming release, but it doesn’t stray too far from their sound with Alice yelping away under blown out synth lines. Crystal Castles on the web.
It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything from Chelsea Wolfe, a few (great) live performances aside, so it’s particularly great news when a new track is released from her forthcoming Sargent House debut Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs. If you haven’t already, check out our interview we did with her last [...]
Azealia Banks is, at the very least, diverse in her track selection. “212′s” bounce-house beat gave no hint at all that she was going to release a true, legitimate banger like “Nathan,” or the similarly hard-hitting thumper “Aquababe.” Now, after a handful of leaked tracks, her mixtape has finally been released and… it has some [...]
I’ll admit, I wasn’t sold after NEWMUSICMACHINE‘s A. Karuna excitedly showed Azealia Banks’ video for “212.” No nailing down what didn’t work despite how hard I tried to figure it out, it simply didn’t. The four on the floor beat? Nah. The so totally edgy repeated use of the word “cunt”? Nah. The undeniable girl-next-door [...]
