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July 22, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Stephen McBean of Black Mountain has pulled some of the best talent to collaborate on […]

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July 15, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. High-fructose Seattle grunge-pop quartet Tacocat released their first LP, NVM on Hardly Art earlier this year […]

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July 8, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Dub Thompson are an LA band that, with help from Foxygen’s producer Jonathan Rado, are quickly […]

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July 1, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Truthers are a new Brooklyn band, perhaps supergroup, made up of members of the bands […]

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June 24, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Craft Spells sophomore LP, Nausea, was created during a difficult time in songwriter Justin Vallesteros’ […]

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June 3, 2014 Andy Cush

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Sunbathing Animal, Parquet Courts’ new album, refines the Brooklyn band’s post-punk squall, slowing down and stretching out without sacrificing the energy that made their last two records so compelling. The approach works: “Instant Disassembly,” a […]

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April 15, 2014 Andy Cush

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. The Toronto industrial punk band Odonis Odonis walks a fine line between melodic accessibility and grinding noise (see their excellent Hieronymus Bosch-referencing clip “Order in the Court” for evidence of the latter). Fittingly, their […]

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April 8, 2014 Andy Cush

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s playlist comes from the Detroit punk band Protomartyr, whose excellent sophomore album Under Color of Official Right was released today via Hardly Art. Though the new record mellows out the raw, drunken […]

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January 28, 2014 Andy Cush

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. This week’s “Listen In” comes from the Brooklyn psych/folk/rock Woods, who compiled a playlist heavy on live cuts and television appearances. Highlights: garage rock legends The Seeds playing “Pushin’ Too Hard” on a 1968 […]

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January 21, 2014 Andy Cush

“Listen In“ is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Pile come from the same Boston basement rock scene that birthed bands like Speedy Ortiz, Krill, Grass Is Green, and Guerilla Toss, but for whatever reason, haven’t received quite the same love as the […]

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