Doug Mosurock
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In 1991, the Tokyo Flashback comp introduced the world to Japanese psychedelic music. Experience the whammy-bar wizardry of White Heaven's "Blind Promise" from a new reissue.
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Featuring members of Trans FX, CC Dust and Vexx, the Olympia trio channels the dream-pop of Cocteau Twins and retro dance sounds of Saint Etienne.
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The Glaswegian quartet is one of the greater, and darkly pleasant, recent surprises in dance music, led by experimental musician Richard Youngs.
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The six-piece band made the trip from Adelaide to Anacortes, Washington to record its new album, a tumble down the jangle of post-punk.
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From the Italian death-rock band's concept album about resistance fighters during WWII, "Al di fuori del male" ("Outside Of Evil") represents Contravveleno at its most strident.
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Culled from New Zealand's weirdest, the band is integral to '90s Kiwi-pop. Hear a swirling, reverb-heavy song from its first record in 10 years.
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The meditative choogle from the masters of electric-blues boogie is a misadventure involving LSD, freak-shaming and an early, breakthrough live performance by KISS.
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As the son of a '90s indie-rocker, Tyler Travis has taken that era's sound and made it his own — after all, it's what's done with all that noise that counts.
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Comets On Fire frontman Ethan Miller channels the ungovernable and wild psych-rock of MC5 and High Rise in his Bay Area power trio.
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Ben Chasny resets the dial of his long-running project with a momentous folk-blues burner. Chris Corsano, Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr and Bitchin Bajas' Cooper Crain join in.