Recommended Dose: October's Best Dance Tracks
Your monthly cliff notes to the best electronic music features new tunes from Ducky, Toxe, Len Leise and more.
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Songs We Love: The Max Levine Ensemble, 'My Valerian'
Eight years between albums, the D.C. pop-punks return with a chunky rock anthem about chasing bliss. In the video, a doomsday device is implanted in singer David Combs' brain.
Hear 'Eliot St.' From A New Album By Quilt
Familiar, warm harmonies and nostalgia for a troubled time echo through the first song from Quilt's new album, Plaza, out on Feb. 26.
Music Destroys And Music Heals In 'Modern Girl'
Riot grrrl legend Carrie Brownstein's excellent new memoir takes readers from her difficult childhood to the rise and fall (and rise again) of her band Sleater-Kinney, which she says saved her life.
Watkins Family Hour On World Cafe
Nickel Creek's Sean and Sara Watkins stop by with some of their friends for today's session.
Viking's Choice: Total Abuse, 'DNA Evidence'
There's a relentless antagonism to Total Abuse that is so, so satisfying. The Texas band's new album Excluded is a mud-slop synthesis of sludgy noise, lunging rhythms and oddly catchy hooks.
PILL, 'Hot Glue'
How you feel about the video for NYC post-punk band PILL's dreamy and unnerving "Hot Glue" depends on how you feel about pointy press-on nails, NSFW produce and pills.
The Current Presents: Chvrches
The Scottish trio makes its third visit to The Current's studio to perform "Leave A Trace."
First Watch: Kyle Morton, 'Book Of Matches'
This new video by Kyle Morton of Typhoon is the product of an unusual collaboration. Ten short musical vignettes, each just a minute long, written to be paired with a snippet of video.
This Will Be Our Year: The Zombies On Revisiting 'Odessey And Oracle'
The Zombies' Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent look back on the making of their once-overlooked, now-classic album and reveal what it's like performing the songs nearly 50 years after they were written.