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  White Whale Swims Again in RSD Exclusive Psych Pop Compilation

  August 17 at 4 a.m.

  One of the biggest COVID-Casualties in the music biz has been the cancellation of Record Store Day. The annual event celebrates independent stores and their music head/crate digger customers. They descend upon real brick-and-mortar buildings to snap up what are now hundreds of exclusive and limited edition RSD releases each...

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  Can '90s Alt Rockers The Incoherents Get It Together One More Time?

  July 13 at 4 a.m.

  Music heads are generally suckers for movies about “Getting the Band Together” or “Getting the Band Back Together.” Titles of varying quality featuring fictional groups run the gamut from Eddie and the Cruisers, That Thing You Do!, and The Commitments to more independent fare like Garage Days and Still Crazy...

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  Yo La Tengo Bring A Calm To The Riot

  Monday, September 10, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Getting to create art without worrying about who buys it, is a world that few artists can enjoy. Though, for close to 35 years, that's been the world that New Jersey's Yo La Tengo has been able to call home. "We've never placed much importance on commercial success, we've kept...

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  From Beyond Adds Machines To Their Metal

  Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  On their new album The Band From Beyond, Texas' From Beyond prove they're making more than metal music, coming up with sounds closer to heavy blues mixed with machines. Opening with gloomy and dark sounds on the instrumental track, "Invocation," they set the stage for what's to come. They follow it...

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  Alone On The Moon Riffs Hard On Spectra

  Thursday, August 16, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Houston's Alone On The Moon have always played heavy music without overclocking things, and the result is their latest release Spectra. The music is all instrumental which at times makes you want vocals. The songs all seem to take the principle of starting slow and building to epic levels. This...

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  "Weird Al" Gets Ridiculously Self-Indulgent on Current Tour

  Friday, April 6, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Anyone who has seen “Weird Al” Yankovic (and yes, the quotation marks are part of the official billing) in concert knows what to expect: A string of his insanely catchy parody songs (i.e. “Eat It” “Like a Surgeon” “Smells Like Nirvana,” “Amish Paradise,” “Gump,” “Tacky”), a huge video screen, crazy...