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Lilacs & Champagne

Bliss and paranoia: Lilacs & Champagne’s AV samples in a weird VHS trip

Lilacs & Champagne, the production moniker of Grails’ Alex Hall and Emil Amos, creates music that sounds like the constant battle between bliss and paranoia in the span of an acid trip.

Palms

Best Albums: Chino + Isis, Taiwanese symphonic metal, and a polymath poet

Palms: s/t
Chthonic: Bú-Tik
Dessa: Parts of Speech
Bosnian Rainbows: s/t
Rose Windows: The Sun Dogs
Locrian: Return to Annihilation

Better than dating: Adult Swim’s Singles Program returns

Adult Swim’s summer Singles Program is back, and it’s bringing you 15 weeks of (good) free music.

Gold Panda: Half of Where You Live

12 awesome album covers from June 2013

Most of the best album art of June 2013 has one thing in common: loads of color.

Deveykus

Best Albums: Hasidic doom jazz, rap’s “bad character,” and Big Sur beauty

Deveykus: Pillar Without Mercy
Quasimoto: Yessir, Whatever
Bill Frisell: Big Sur

Brent Amaker & The Rodeo

Backstage Confidential: Brent Amaker on naughty bits and prison performance

When you’re on the road as much as country-western front-man Brent Amaker, you’re bound to see unusual things. And when your typical show includes burlesque dancers and “whiskey baptisms,” things can get downright weird.

Deafheaven

A post-black-metal masterpiece, the heir to rap-core, and SW symphonics

Deafheaven: Sunbather
Integrity: Suicide Black Snake
The White Mandingos: The Ghetto’s Tryna Kill Me
Noxious Foxes: Epochalypso
Scale the Summit: The Migration
Calexico: Spiritoso

Cultura Tres

Doom, bloody doom: Cultura Tres’s ritualistic “Es Mi Sangre”

The video for “Es Mi Sangre,” by Venezuelan doom-metal band Cultura Tres, is a murky affair, filled with disturbing, ritualistic imagery and constantly flickering in and out of focus.

2013 and 1/3: The Best Albums of the 2010s (So Far)

2013 and 1/3: The Best Albums of the 2010s (So Far)

Inspired by the third installment of The Naked Gun, we decided to compile our favorite albums over the first 3 1/3 years of the 2010s.

The Flaming Lips

Ears for fears: The Flaming Lips’ liberation through Terror

The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd discuss The Terror of what to do after trying everything.

OK Go helps NPR move its Tiny Desk

Having OK Go help you move may not be the most practical, but as NPR’s new Tiny Desk Concert shows, it’s a lot more fun.

Mythological metal: Scale the Summit’s “The Olive Tree”

Prog-metal outfit Scale the Summit is back with a new album next week, but first we’re premiering the epic, upbeat new track “The Olive Tree”.

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