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Herd of Instinct - Drone Priest

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From the beginning of its history, rock music has mostly been about bands — relatively stable groups of musicians who work together over time. Jazz, on the other hand, is largely about...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-29)

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

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If you remember the 80s, you remember the t-shirts — for me they were ubiquitous in guitar classes. To my ears Iron Maiden were and still are the greatest act to come from the New Wave of...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2017-12-28)

The Heliosonic Tone-tette - Heliosonic Toneways, Vol. 1

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From the name of this ensemble, you might guess that there’s some kind of connection with Sun Ra, and you would be absolutely correct. The impetus for the group’s formation was the 50th...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-26)

Steve Roach - Spiral Revelation

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Here we are in a soundworld that lies somewhere between Roach’s floating ambient style and his more sequenced work, one breathing life into the other, shifting as it goes across the...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-12-25)

She Owl - Animal Eye & Drifters

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After the lovely debut She Owl album in 2013, I lost track of this Italian duo until the announcement of the new Drifters EP, and I took the opportunity to check out what I’d missed,...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-24)

Johannes Luley - Qitara

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Many will know German-born, California based multi-instrumentalist Johannes Luley from his band Perfect Beings, and before that, Moth Vellum. Having studied under guitarist Eddy Marron of Dzyan and...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-12-23)

Collapse under the Empire - The Fallen Ones

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Collapse under the Empire is a German duo taking an electronic slant on the genre of post-rock. Normally, I’m not one to emphasize genre labels in music, as most of the best music defies easy...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-22)

Taylor's Universe - Almost Perfected

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It’s been a good two years since the last new release by Taylor’s Universe (and that’s not counting Across the Universe, which was a sort-of remixed best-of release), but...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-12-20)

Security Project - Contact

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I’m extremely wary of tribute bands, and would almost always rather listen to musicians doing new material than covering someone else’s music. I won’t argue that there’s no...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2017-12-19)

Trallskogen - Trollskogen

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Trallskogen is an international band led by Swedish singer and composer Annika Jonsson, presently living in Saarbrucken, Germany, which she and the rest of the band call home. Their sound is...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2017-12-18)
 

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