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[METAL] 17 years on from KillSwitch Engage’s Boston-area beginnings, the recently released Incarnate finds the metalcore band sounding fully committed.
[ROCK] On “Slow Sin,” the brooding opener to Atlanta five-piece O’Brother’s impressive new Endless Light, frontman Tanner Merritt declares, ”
[JAM] If there’s such a thing as American Reggae, John Brown’s Body helped create the template.
[INDIE] Call it doom-and-boom, but there’s something intriguing about Twin Speak’s sound, which straddles the lines between bluesy psychedelia and Sabbath-inspired metal with a penchant for bursts of something a bit noisier.
[INDIE] And now for something refreshingly different… The pointed toes and wiggling legs (and ears, and nostrils) that recur through the video for Baio’s single “Sister of Pearl” make for a perfectly charming introduction to the solo project of Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio (who,
[JAZZ] June Kuramoto’s koto playing is a large part of what’s made inroads for Hiroshima, the Japanese-American band, formed in Los Angeles during the mid-1970’s.
[TRIBUTE] Creating set lists based on vintage Jerry Garcia Band shows from the 1970s through the 1990s, Garcia Project takes Grateful devotion up a notch with a meticulous eye for detail.
[TRIBUTE] If you’re at all partial to Pink Floyd, you owe it to yourself to check out The Machine. The proof is in the longevity: if the band’s Floyd recreations were unremarkable, they wouldn’t have survived for 25 years as a profitable touring act.