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Summer is upon us, and here are 42 albums we can't wait to hear this season, including Blur, Slowdive, PJ Harvey, Aphex Twin, The Hives, Fiddlehead, The Armed, Girl Ray, Jorja Smith, and more...

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Noel Gardner , March 17th, 2021 09:00 Rimming disasters, Cockney piano and countryfied garage rock expectorations... Noel Gardner probes the boundaries of punk rock once again Home page portrait of Spodee Boy Can it really be a whole year since I was sporting a ‘beer jacket’ in north London at the Static Shock Weekend, being given a flyer for The Chisel’s debut gig, briefly wondering who The Chisel were and swiftly realising they were all in the place too? Course it can! We’re not goin...

No Roads (The Garden) After living through a year that brought a devastating tornado and a deadly global pandemic, rapper Reaux Marquez felt inspired to craft an album that reflected the loss and tumult he and his North Nashville community experienced. No Roads is an immersive, narrative album, opening with the spoken line, “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” Marquez produced the album himself, and he adds flourishes of jazz, spoken wo...

Safety Net and Tape Deck Mountain Stream On at The 5 Spot Made-in-Nashville post-punk and shoegaze made for two excellent nights of streams from the East Side bar and venue Tweet Safety Net An abbreviated, irreverent cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Start Me Up,” played at double the speed of the original, was one of many surprises in Safety Net’s performance, streamed Friday from The 5 Spot via StageIt. The trio gained its sea legs in the months before COVID, sup...