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JR Moores surveys the latest psych and noise-rock releases, pines for the CD-R format and wonders what comes after perfection

You’d think the hardest part about ranking your 500 favorite Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices songs would be finding 500 songs you really love. On the contrary. This is Bob Pollard we’re talking about. The hardest thing was limiting the list to 500 tracks.

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In part two of an extended deep-dive into the city’s music scene, Mike McGrath-Bryan takes a look at everything from singer-songwriters and the ...

Eoin Murray , May 11th, 2021 07:32 In the ninth edition of our column on the sounds of Irish undergrowth, Eoin Murray finds culchie surrealism, rural kosmische, acerbic punk, improvised psychedelia, lo-fi hip hop and much more Brian Eno’s Music For Fucking Dopes. Summer Songs Rory Gallagher Would Listen To If He Were Still Alive And Not Dead Because Dead People Cant Listen To Music. Simply The Best UVF. Ballymac Lads Are Hungry For Blood. Dublin In The Rain Is Shit Craic Because Dublin Is A S...

Lighght’s Fresh Kicks mix is full of surprises: an Irish folk tune ripped from a Twitter video emerges from a behind shroud of smoky ambience and disjointed beats; an indie rock song about a missing dog contorts around a droning bed of electricity and distortion; an a capella of Sisqó’s ‘The Thong Song’ is warped and rewired to become a haunting mantra. These creative detours appear among lush experimental electronic tracks from the likes estoc, KMRU, Frog of Earth, Holland Andrews, On...