Author: Rob Moura
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Spectreview: Black Ends – Stay Evil
Black Ends’ stellar followup to their debut 2019 EP finds the band’s chunky, gunky pop-rock improved in almost every way.
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Season 2 Episode 9: On Staying Evil (feat. Nicolle Swims of Black Ends)
Today on the podcast I've got Nicolle Swims, lead singer/guitarist of Seattle "gunk-pop" band Black Ends. We go deep into their new EP, Stay Evil, with some welcome tangents into Frank Zappa, cool album art, and Swims' recent performance at the now-dismantled CHOP.
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Review: MIKE – weight of the world
MIKE's newest record, which addresses the crises of the current moment amid his signature lush beats, might be the New York rapper's most captivating project yet.
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NON-PROFIT MUSIC FOR THE PROTESTS: SAULT – UNTITLED (Black Is)
UNTITLED (Black Is), a double album that’s alternately comforting and exploratory, delivers everything that made SAULT such a sensational discovery.
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NON-PROFIT MUSIC FOR THE PROTESTS: Various Artists – The Blackwashing
Sequenced exquisitely and stacked to the nines with take after take of excellent independent music by Black artists, The Blackwashing does what good art has the capacity to do: provide perspective.
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NON-PROFIT MUSIC FOR THE PROTESTS: Space Afrika – hybtwibt?
Manchester-based dub techno duo Space Afrika confront the insidious elision of Black individualism on the disorienting, phantasmagorical hybtwibt?.
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NON-PROFIT MUSIC FOR THE PROTESTS: Bitch Fits – Invitation to Love
Bitch Fits’ sophomore record, a stellar mixture of heartfelt longing and righteous excoriation, is a huge step up for the Seattle four-piece.
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Season 2 Episode 8: On Auteurs, Anger and Araki (feat. Danny Denial)
Seattle musician and filmmaker Danny Denial talk about his new solo album, and we discuss new queer cinema, music as character in film, and much more!
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Review: Danny Denial – fuck danny denial
Danny Denial’s newest solo record is unlike anything the punk artist has done before, bounding through genre lines and moods with confidence befitting an auteur.
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Solange – A Seat at the Table (2016)
Solange’s career-defining A Seat at the Table provided a safe space for Black healing and strengthening against the enduring force of systemic racism.