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5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (243+ words) beatsperminute.com Valerie June collaborates with Sam Amidon on cover of blues standard, “Trouble in Mind” For the final preview from her forthcoming EP, Brighter Blue, multi-instrumentalist Valerie June has joined forces with Sam Amidon to cover the blues standard,…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (127+ words) Listen to the song below. The World Is Dark, but I Want It to Be Funny: 1. Familiar Strangers2. Louisiana Song3. When You Look Down4. The World Is Dark, but I Want It to Be Funny (feat. Emily Hines)5. A Size 2 Big 4 U6. My Very…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (710+ words) beatsperminute.com Album Review: Jorja Smith – What Are The Odds Ten years ago Jorja Smith uploaded a song about police lights and became famous before she had finished being a teenager. “Blue Lights” arrived in 2016, she was 19, and the decade…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1593+ words) beatsperminute.com Album Review: Chat Pile – Who Loves The Sun It would have been too bitter, too evidently ironic if Chat Pile had released Who Loves The Sun one week after its official release date. Their third album (or fourth,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1316+ words) beatsperminute.com Album Review: Interpol – This Mirror Weighs A Ton Now, anyone familiar with how sensitive and caring Banks is can probably guess that he must have felt a little awful about forgetting Curtis once it was brought to his…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (256+ words) It has been now over four decades that we have been getting that incredible combination of guitar-dominated noise, melody and often left-field lyrics from Dinosaur Jr. There were break ups and pick ups, perfect sounds and those close but not…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (663+ words) Album Review: Brandon Flowers – THRASHER beatsperminute.com Album Review: Brandon Flowers – THRASHER Given his predilection towards the genre, it’s no big surprise that Brandon Flowers finally made a fully-fledged country-western album. The Killers frontman has also shown his fondness for country…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (178+ words) So this all brings us to Punching the Clown, Lambchop’s first offering in four years. It’s yet another move, yet another musical and lyrical exploration, and simply put, yet another masterpiece. This time around, from the opening notes of “Just…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (596+ words) beatsperminute.com Album Review: The Afghan Whigs – Soft Control “He’s all thin now, and he wears these little tight suits, and he’s got these grandpa reading glasses, like, ‘Hey, I can’t do nothing to nobody no more. Oh, me? I’m…...