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Steve Gunn in "collabs" with some killer folks! TOUR ONLY EP THAT WE ENDED UP WITH! WHAT?
Side A: Protection with Mikey & Ahmoudou (from Mdou Moctar), Good Wind with Natural Information Society, On The Way with Natural Information Society. Side B: Fulton

Recorded in the same sessions as A Bit of Previous, Late Developers doesn't feel like a collection of lesser-than songs that weren't good enough to go on the "real" record. Rather, it's an embrace of the freedom that comes with a jumbo-sized canvas, skill

Yo La Tengo's follow-up to 2000's wildly acclaimed And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out proved to be yet another thrilling chapter in the artistic journey of one of the world's most ever-changing bands. Summer Sun, recorded with longtime associate Ro

Originally released on Matador Records in 2000, Yo La Tengo's hauntingly meditative ninth full-length album, the Roger Moutenot-produced And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, is named after the otherworldly Sun Ra quote, "...At first there was nothin

2002's Kill the Moonlight finds Britt Daniel and long time musical conspirator Jim Eno destroying the form book and branching into uncharted territory. It is a staggering achievement, with stylistic range and emotional depth far beyond that of prior Spoon

The second installment of Matador's 2022 "Revisionist History" catalog series is a colored vinyl 2LP reissue of Yo La Tengo's undeniable 1997 classic I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One. On this album, the band consolidates their sound as they expand it,

Horsegirl are best friends. You don't have to talk to the trio for more than five minutes to feel the warmth and strength of their bond, which crackles through every second of their debut full-length, Versions of Modern Performance. Penelope Lowenstein (g

Coinciding with the release of the Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal 5LP box set, Pavement reissues the Spit on a Stranger EP on 12" vinyl. Includes the viral hit "Harness Your Hopes" on vinyl for the first time plus a previously unreleased live 1999 v

Spoon's tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band's purest rock 'n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Written and recorded over the last two y

In 2011, Toronto's Fucked Up delivered an album that chafed the edges of punk rock's conceptual boundaries – a set of songs that splayed freely into unexpected instrumentation, psychedelic drift, and situationist philosophy. Its ambition was limitless and

Formed in 1991, the Philadelphia-based quintet have spent some thirty years mapping guitar music's outer limits ­ – dialing into extremes of noise, chaos, and harmony in free-form compositions that now unfurl across 12 full-length records and a near-limit

Other You is the sixth studio album by American singer Steve Gunn. Recorded during two visits to Los Angeles in late 2020 and early 2021, the album was made with veteran producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith, Cass McCombs, Kurt Vile) at his Mant Studi

Julien Baker’s solo debut, Sprained Ankle, was one of the most widely hailed works of 2015. The album, recorded by an 18-year-old and her friend in only a few days, was a bleak yet hopeful, intimate document of staggering experiences and grace, centered e

This new gift from Lucy Dacus, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir might – "In the summer of ‘07 I was sure I'd go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS" – and

On Mdou Moctar's long awaited new Matador Records album Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky - boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and "rock music" by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noi

Little Oblivions is the third studio album by Julien Baker. Recorded in Memphis, TN, the record weaves together unflinching autobiography with assimilated experience and hard-won observations from the past few years, taking Baker's capacity for storytelli

Produced by the band, 2010's Transference is made up of 11 gems that honor the Spoon tradition while pushing the envelope of the Texas art-pop group's sound ever further. "Before Destruction" opens proceedings with a transfixing air of foreboding before "

Lotta Sea Lice is a conversation between friends Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, documented in raw, unvarnished song, brimming with personal history, crackling with energy and shot through with humor. What started as a loose plan to record a couple songs

Girls Can Tell served as Spoon's stunning follow-up to 1998's A Series of Sneaks as well as their full-length debut for Merge in 2001. The Austin, Texas indie rock outfit's third studio album overall finds the extremely talented Britt Daniel developing in

Originally released in 1981 ‘Signals, Calls and Marches’ is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished debut offers up instant classics, ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’ and ‘Academy Fight

Traditional Techniques is new phase folk music for new phase folks, with Stephen Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream. Instead of roses, briars, and long black veils, prepare for owns, cracked emojis, and shado