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New Music / Experimental pop trio Sonoi
February 9, 2010 | New Music | 
by Casper Johansson 
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At times floating out of the ether with the familiarity of forgotten Sunday mornings, while at others, pounding out textured, thumping pop, the sound of Chicago band Sonoi might be difficult to describe, but that’s what makes it so interesting. The depth of the band’s sonic palette is evident on their song Sherry Fall [listen below], which starts off as a straight-ahead pop song, punctuated by Busch’s evocative phrasing, but in minutes transforms into a near motorik groove.
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New Music / Sick Weapons
February 8, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
Anointed Best New Band of 2009 by Baltimore’s City Paper, Sick Weapons embody basically what’s so great about this town — trash, and good times. They spit out sloppy, warbling, ear-piercing punk that’s more giddy than it is snarling, with frontwoman Ellie Beziat channeling Poly Styrene without being overly conscious of it. With songs like If You Love Me Take Me to the Hospital, The Prettiest Racist in Town, and Orgy on the China Train, it’s apparent these guys have their heads in a lot of unseemly places, but not up their own butts.
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New Music / Mux Mool
February 6, 2010 | New Music | by Casper Johansson |
Culled from Mux Mool’s EPs, mixtapes, and beat vaults, the Viking Funeral EP collects five choice Mux cuts into one concentrated blast of music, an introduction to Brian Lindgren’s dazzling take on homespun electro hip-hop and a preamble to his upcoming full-length release, Skulltaste.
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New Music / Nerve City
February 4, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
I’ve been digging the lonely, dissonant, surf-pop noise wafting out of Jason Boyer’s basement in the form of Nerve City, his solo, home-recording project. It sounds like what should be playing out of a tinny car radio in a David Lynch-inspired nightmare.
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New Music / Phantogram
February 4, 2010 | New Music | by Zolton |
Hailing from upstate New York, Phantogram were signed by the uber-hip Ghostly label on the recommendation of School of Seven Bells. Hardly surprising given Phantogram’s dark, beats-and-samples pop sound.
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New Music / The Black Ryder
February 3, 2010 | New Music | by Zolton |
We checked in with Aussie band, The Black Ryder, and asked them whether their new album, Buy The Ticket, Take the Ride, was a labour of love or if it fell into place really quickly. Aimee Nash, one half of the duo, replied that ‘it was definitely a labour of love considering we wrote, recorded and produced the entire album ourselves. Some songs were easier than others, and some took over a year to complete. Scott engineered the album yet we produced everything together so there were many tireless hours spent at the studio desk’. Said Scott Von Ryper, the other half of the group: ‘Most of it fell into place really quickly and then took over a year to refine it all. Some songs were written and recorded in a night, and then we just kept layering and tuning it until it sounded the way we dreamed it should be. We got told many times that early versions we were playing to people sounded ‘finished’, but we couldn’t help ourselves. The production side of creating music can be very enjoyable as well, so we took our time to explore it’. [Read a Secret Playlist by The Black Ryder]
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New Music / Xrin Arms
February 2, 2010 | New Music | by Zolton |
Anthony Vincent has been roaming the country for the past few years under the name Xrin Arms (pronounced ‘Yer-In Arms’), sand-blasting hearts and minds with his onslaught of digital grindcore psychosis. Processing soul, funk, R&B, pop, death metal, swing, random samples, and every iteration of everything awful through his laptop and pedals, Vincent is the vessel through which a helium-voiced, pharmaceutical-addled, pop-overloaded demon projectile vomits into the open sewer of culture 2.0.
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New Music / Motor’s dancefloor firestarter
February 2, 2010 | New Music | by Zolton |
Oh man, my ears are melting! This single by electro duo, Motor, is hot, hot, hot. Motor is a duo — Bryan Black and Mr. No — based out of New York City and Nice, France. We have a free download of this single below, Kick It, in the Music Download section if you dig it as much as we do. [Photo via The Burn Lab]
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New Music / Rabbit Punch
February 2, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
The music of Gainesville-based trio Rabbit Punch induces a feeling not unlike riding the moving walkway at O’Hare International Airport, a strange sense of drama emerging from the endlessly repeating neon rainbow overhead. Distant guitar howls and digital bleeps and bloops call out like spirits from a binary forest, while synthesized melodies, the occasional processed vocals, and dirge-like beats add to the sense that something important is imminent.
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New Music / Jaydiohead
February 1, 2010 | New Music | by Zolton |
What do you get when you combine the most sophisticated rock band of the past thirty years with a smooth jiving, foul mouthed rapper with enough testosterone to make up for the rock band’s distinct lack of it? Hmmm? I present Jaydiohead. The greatest mash-up since the great potato wars of 2008.
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New Music / Part Chimp
January 29, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
Let’s take a road trip, just you and me. We’ll stop at every dive bar and truck stop from here to Minneapolis, and crash on dirty, beer-stained couches in the houses of people we barely know. We’ll wake up every morning, struggling to remember the night before or what city we’re in, and hit the road again. We’ll only have two albums in the car: Slayer’s Reign in Blood and Thriller by UK-based noise-rock trio Part Chimp. Years from now, when we’re settled down in mild-mannered burbs on opposite sides of the country, with our kids and wives and jobs, we’ll look down at the faded tattoos on our arms — dancing hotdogs wearing sunglasses with the words ‘BROS FOREVER’ underneath — and know that we had truly lived.
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New Music / Speak
January 28, 2010 | New Music | by Zolton |
They may have the least stimulating band name in recent times, but don’t be fooled: Speak are all about innovative pop, their music invoking timeless melodies and energetic, synth-laden anthems. Don’t believe us? No?! Well, check out their single Carrie below and, if you dig it, download it for free via our Music Download section.
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New Music / Pavement’s Gold Soundz remastered
January 27, 2010 | New Music | by Michelle Wilding |
I want to squeal so badly right now because I just heard the freshly remastered version of Gold Soundz by Pavement. It’s bliss! This re-jigged 1994 single is the opening track of Pavement’s forthcoming best of album, Quarantine The Past.
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New Music / Divorce
January 27, 2010 | New Music | by Gerry Mak |
Divorce is a beautifully ugly five-piece from Glasgow that makes raw, abrasive noise punk that harks back to the heyday of the anarchic, crusty, post-Crass underground.
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New Music / The Chills’ Heavenly Pop Hit
January 26, 2010 | New Music | by Zolton |
At first listen, The Chills were like nothing else when they burst out of the relatively cloistered confines of the Dunedin student set way back in the early 1980s. Only, in retrospect, they were kinda like so much of the rest of the Flying Nun roster: lo-fi, wearily melodic, understated, and joyously brash in their use of lush vocal harmonies and ringing guitar licks. It was simply divine. And the first time I heard this song, Heavenly Pop Hit, I thought it was exactly that: the most decadent single imaginable. Some twenty years later, it still sounds fresh. [Click here to listen to Heavenly Pop Hit]
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