Alex's Staff Picks
Neil Young's "big change" Has a New Band but a Vintage Sound
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PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2025
Neil Young has a new band and a new single. The all-lowercase group neil young and the chrome hearts have just rolled out their debut song...
"Bologna" Already Sounds Like Classic Destroyer
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PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2025
Destroyer's latest single, "Bologna," just autoplayed on Spotify, and even though the song is barely a week old, I was instantly struck by...
'Music from the Merch Desk (2016 - 2023)' Has Perfect Playlist Fodder for All Types of Aphex Twin Fan
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PUBLISHED Jan 6, 2025
I tend to prefer fairly nice-sounding electronic music over punishing beats, so even though Aphex Twin's recent two-and-a-half-hour...
The Tragically Hip and Feist's "'It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken'" Carries the Spirit — If Not the Sound — of Gord Downie
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PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024
The Tragically Hip have wisely not reunited since singer Gord Downie's tragic death in 2017, but they closest they came was doing a...
Yesterday’s Man Make Indie Rock Sound Classic on "Fleetwood mac"
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PUBLISHED Dec 3, 2024
Yesterday's Man describe their sound as "classic indie rock" — and Gal Av-Gay and Alie Lynch surely know a thing or two about classic indie...
Chinese American Bear Channel the Blog-Rock Greats on 'Wah!!!'
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PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2024
Seattle "mando-pop" duo Chinese American Bear channel the best of golden-era blog-rock: the romantic haze of the Pains of Being Pure at...
Laura Marling's 'Patterns in Repeat' Unites Greenwich Village and Greenwich, London
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PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2024
It's hard to make folk music in the mould of '60s/'70s singer-songwriters without sounding like mere imitation. With Halloween coming up...
Mk.gee Makes the Guitar Sound New Again on "ROCKMAN"
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PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2024
It's been about 70 years since electric guitar became the dominant instrument of popular music — a role it held for many generations...
