Music Reviews

Dr. Octagon's first album in 22 years, Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation, comes out Apr. 6 on Bulk Recordings.

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First Listen: Dr. Octagon, 'Moosebumps: An Exploration Into Modern Day Horripilation'

5:45pm March 29, 2018

by Oliver Wang

The first Dr. Octagon project to reunite Kool Keith with Dan the Automator in 22 years picks up right where they left off, as weird and warped as ever.

Clarice Jensen's For This From That Will Be Filled comes out April 6.

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First Listen: Clarice Jensen, 'For This From That Will Be Filled'

12:00pm March 29, 2018

by Tom Huizenga

The cellist makes meditative, sometimes disorienting music with pedals, loops, sine tones and an expansive imagination.

Kadhja Bonet's Childqueen comes out out June 8.

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Songs We Love: Kadhja Bonet, 'Mother Maybe'

10:01am March 29, 2018

by Megan Buerger

The first single from Childqueen spins a technicolor groove as Kadhja Bonet's creamy soprano flutters in and out of the whistle register.

The Aces' When My Heart Felt Volcanic comes out Apr. 6 on Red Bull Records.

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First Listen: The Aces, 'When My Heart Felt Volcanic'

5:00am March 29, 2018

by Lyndsey McKenna

The Aces' full-length debut is a pop confectionery, and fit to be blasted from car stereos, but there's substance to its sweetness

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Album Review: Centavrvs Claim Musical Unity In 'Somos Uno'

3:52pm March 28, 2018

by Camilo Garzón

The Latin Grammy-nominated band offers deep meditations on Mexican culture and history through novel interpretations of cumbia, bolero and straight-up rock.

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'Final Tour' Celebrates John Coltrane's Last Go-Round With Miles Davis

2:30pm March 28, 2018

by Kevin Whitehead

Coltrane played his last engagements as a sideman with Davis in the spring of 1960. Recordings from those European shows have been bootlegged for years; now a few are collected in a new anthology.

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