December 2023 / January 2024 Issue

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  PinkPantheress Spreads Her Wings on 'Heaven knows'

  PUBLISHED Nov 10, 2023

  "I am not your internet baby," PinkPantheress sings on her debut album Heaven knows — a repeated refrain in which she explicitly distances...

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  Finn Wolfhard Preserves the Aubreys as His DIY "Breeding Ground for Creativity"

  PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2023

  Right now, Finn Wolfhard should be preoccupied with Stranger Things, the fifth and final season of which was supposed to film this year. Wh...

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  Fucked Up Celebrate Their "Weirdest, Most Difficult" Music as 'The Chemistry of Common Life' Turns 15

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2023

  It starts with a woodland flute solo and ends with a seven-minute finale that reprises the riff of that first song. Certainly, 2008's The C...

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  Cat Power Is Devotee, Student and Messenger on 'Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert'

  PUBLISHED Nov 7, 2023

  Almost 60 years after his mythic performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, we're still talking about Robert Zimmerman. The infamous ac...

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  Badge Epoque Ensemble Break Down the Essentials on 'Air, Light & Harmony'

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

  What's the next step after cutting your most accomplished effort to date? For Badge Époque Ensemble, the horizon beyond last year's Clouds...

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  Bry Webb's 'Run with Me' Is Both Conclusion and Rebirth

  PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2023

  Sometimes people disappear gradually. Archival evidence of their being remains, standing in for their actual presence, but when (or if) the...

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  Keys N Krates Are Here to Subvert Tropes

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

  Go ahead and try to Shazam that special song at the next Keys N Krates show — you might not find it. That's because restraint is part of th...

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  bar italia Are Out for Blood on 'The Twits'

  PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2023

  Not content with only releasing their nervy Matador debut Tracey Denim this year, bar italia venture into fuzzy, clanging britpop on their...