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Monthly Archives: August 2014

EP SPOTLIGHT: OK GO: UPSIDE OUT

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OK GO’s new EP opens with the mid-tempo track “Turn Up the Radio,” a song about getting down to business with one’s significant other. The idea, I think, is to turn up the radio so your neighbors can’t hear you shagging. “I’ve got to lose myself tonight / So turn off the lights,’ sings...
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#songoftheday / FREE DOWNLOAD (FLAC): TOTEM: “CHASE ME”

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Color us damn impressed. Totem's latest track, "Chase Me," is one truly gorgeous, mid-tempo electro-ballad. With its monster beats and haunting vocals, it's like the dreaminess of Bastille meets the potency of Imagine Dragons. Seriously, it's that good. And he's giving it away for...
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#albumoftheday / REVIEW: WESTERN EDUCATION: LET YOUR SECRETS OUT

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Western Education were formed during spring 2011 on the east coast in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, birthplace and muse of Jack Kerouac, after vocalist Greg Alexandropoulos plastered the UMASS Lowell campus with flyers seeking some compatible musicians. His search discovered bassist Will Hunt and guitarist Georgio Broufas and the trio set about...
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SINGLE SPOTLIGHT: MORGOTH: GOD IS EVIL

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Morgoth’s “God Is Evil” 7″ and digital single is their first studio recording since 1996’s “Feel Sorry For The Fanatic” and, holy fuck, was it worth the wait. From the second the song opens, they unleash a cavalcade of spiky, blood-spilling riffs, brutal drums and scathing vocals. It’s a massive onslaught of evil,...
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INTERVIEW: YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE’S SAM MARTIN

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As you probably know, I recently reviewed Youngblood Hawke’s August 6th, 2014 show at Brighton Music Hall in Boston.  My review was wholly positive and I feel the same way about their debut album, Wake Up, which is, in fact, crammed with plenty of gorgeous anthems to rouse you.  Each of its songs...
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