Marc Masters
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Like the Velvet Underground before them, Kilgour and The Clean inspired tons of musicians to embrace impulsive creativity.
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Featuring former Stereolab members, the trio unfurls instrumental loops that build to ecstatic hypnosis.
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Fred Thomas, plus members of Tyvek and the Gories, join the garage-rock band for one of Ian Svenonius' rawest albums to date, Experimental Music.
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Reese McHenry's got a voice like a preacher turning a standard sermon into a cathartic epiphany. She's joined by fellow North Carolina garage-rockers Spider Bags for a collaborative album.
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The Atlanta trio's first single from Multi-task is built around twitchy, start-stop beats that instantly get pulses rushing and nerves tingling.
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Orcutt's guitar playing scrambles conventional logic, but his take on the song from the 1927 musical Show Boat might be one of his gentlest tracks ever.
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Woods hadn't planned to make any new music in 2017, but after last year's election, the folk-rock band decided to focus on love.
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The singer of Saturday Looks Good To Me fills his new solo album with keen reflections on big decisions and life-altering memories.
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Half Japanese began in the late '70s as a band of primitive outsiders, breaking musical rules that founding brothers Jad and David Fair never even learned. Today, it remains surprising and vibrant.
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The shoegazing tune feels a little like a lost Christmas carol: faded with time, but still echoing lightly through the winter air.