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Beast Patrol: Live at Mercury Lounge
To get an idea of what four-piece NYC band Beast Patrol sounds like, it helps to check out their list of “Artists We Also Like” on their official Facebook page. Older names on this list include the low-pitched demonics...
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Shamir – Northtown EP
Is it 2014 or 1984? Although this is a question that’s been asked lately in regards to the whole NSA scandal, it’s also one that applies to the state of recent music. The last few years have given rise...
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#MusicHangouts – Free Press Summer Festival
The summer heat and humidity has started settling in over Houston, schools are about to end for summer break, and college kids are back home for the summer. Know what those three things have in common? If you guessed...
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Hundred Waters – The Moon Rang Like a Bell
As though Beyonce’s completely out-of-nowhere release of her self-titled album in late 2013 wasn’t untraditional enough, here’s something to up the ante: Hundred Waters celebrated their sophomore release, The Moon Rang Like a Bell, with a free three-day festival...
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Music Hangout – HOWLS
Do you have a semi-annoying friend you that keeps nagging at you to listen to a band because they are “Totes Awesomesauce” or “Superb”? If you don’t, that’s about to change; today that band is HOWLS and I am...
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Makthaverskan – II
Although Makthaverskan’s American presence wasn’t established until recently, their career has spanned the last five years. They released their self-titled début way back in 2009, but now this Swedish goth punk band is finally invading the music industry’s largest...
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tUnE-yArDs – Nikki Nack
Few musicians have transitioned from cult artist to critical wunderkind as quickly as tUnE-yArDs, the creative moniker of Connecticut’s Merrill Garbus, did in early 2011. Before her sophomore album w h o k i l l was announced in...
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Wye Oak – Shriek
Shriek, the fourth full-length from Baltimore dream pop duo Wye Oak, represents a drastic change for a band that never needed one in the first place. Just a few years ago in 2011, Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack were...
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Music Hangout – Nate Jarrett
I wanted to start this by asking if you remembered those college days, and then I realized that I’m in no position to ask that since I’m still in those college days. Taking classes all day every week doesn’t...
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Kelis – Food
First, let’s address the elephant in the room. You’re on a website called Way Too Indie, where you’re reading a review of the newest album by Kelis, the artist whose 2003 hit “Milkshake” was a major label product that...
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Music Hangout – Lowercase Noises
The thing about ambient music is that it takes patience. Not only to compose it, but also to listen to it. We are naturally drawn to narratives, well at least I and most of the people I know are,...
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Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
Todd Terje was probably born in the late 1970s, so it’s interesting that his music sounds like a lost document from that era. More than that, though, Terje’s entire aura is straight up 70s. A Google image search of...
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Sharkmuffin – 1097 EP
As of April 2013, Sharkmuffin were kind of like the Dr. Octagon of the garage rock, noise pop, and lo-fi scenes. Their She-Gods of Champagne Valley EP they released that month showcased Tarra Thiessen singing about hilariously disturbing topics...
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Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
Given the self-loathing angst of Cloud Nothing’s 2012 masterpiece Attack on Memory, it might be surprising to learn that frontman and songwriter Dylan Baldi has a fantastic sense of humor. “Listened to the leak of that new cloud nothings...
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