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Courtesy of Giant Freakin Robot. Welcome back! It‰'s the spring semester, students are back at college and I‰'m mourning the loss of my free time, but now it's time for you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the return of Another Kind of Currency.  The song that...

Courtesy of Progsphere.Progressive rock band the Mars Volta occupy an almost unfillable niche for their fans. For some sweet few years the band‰'s driving forces, guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, created a stream of innovative albums....

Papa Kelly hangs out at Joe's Record Paradise - Silver Spring.In case you didn't hear, 2014 was a huge year for vinyl. Overall vinyl sales jumped 49%, Jack White sold zillions of copies of his hit record Lazaretto, and the continent's largest pressing plant can't even...

Courtesy of Redbubble. The story goes like this: some One Direction fan in some nether region of the Internet decided that they wanted to make bootleg t-shirts of other bands with 1D‰'s name on them. At first, it seemed that everyone was in on the joke: these...

Courtesy of HipHop-n-more. Let me take you back to Tuesday, September 30, 2014. I woke up from a tumultuous dream and realized the date was one that signified an important birth that will be remembered and celebrated in musical history. You may be...

Courtesy of Captured Tracks. Naomi Punk‰'s sound can be metaphorically compared to Woody Allen‰'s favorite font, Windsor: “Windsor is an unusual design cut by Stephenson Blake in 1905. Windsor is a bold face with heavy rounded serifs and strong diagonal stress‰”...

Courtesy of Stereogum."I hate that beer commercial lead-guitar shit. This next song is called ‰The War on Drugs Can Suck My Fucking Dick.‰'‰Û-Mark KozelekFor the rest of us that love lead-guitar shit, groovy '80s drums, echoey keys, and Bruce Springsteen, “Under...

Courtesy of Young God Records.It seems that many of the year's most memorable stories in the musical world had near-nothing to do with music. From celebrity romances to meme-ready remixes, the experience of sitting down and listening to an album in its entirety seems...

Courtesy of Posh Isolation. The referent ‰post-industrialism‰' defines a situation within music that has disavowed all contingencies of the past, while facilitating a condition of the present, as necessarily confrontational to the present culture. This style is...

Courtesy of Quarterbacks' Bandcamp. Quarterbacks, one of New York's most underrated indie rock bands, released a very overlooked record in 2014. Granted, the Quarterboy cassette was quietly released on Double Double Whammy at the end of July, with little of the...