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After creating lush soundscapes for his crew the Athletic Mic League and Buff1, 14KT steps out of the shadows to construct his melodic instrumental debut, “The Golden Hour.”

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With his band The Comas on hiatus, Andy Herod’s self-produced new project, Electric Owls, embarks on an exploration of musical experimentation while dwelling on the distinctly dark and cryptic with the release of the Magic Show EP.

Aptly titled, the four tracks propagate the mystical spirit of Halloween with …

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Authentic early ’60s soul and beat music is on the decks when ultra-contemporary English R& B singer Hunter is in the house. He’s so cool and smooth you might mistake him for the real deal–and he is: 21st century soul-style!

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Till now, the only way to hear former Belle and Sebastian chanteuse Campbell paired with a Waitsian growl was to force-feed whiskey shots to Stuart. Much less messy is Isobel’s latest collab with Lanegan, which melds Scottish dream-pop with the deliciously murky waters of gothic folk.

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Just when you think you can’t possibly stand to hear another electronic group that dances coyly over the line between indie and club culture, The Whip comes along and slices that notion to bits. Updating electro, pop and disco-house for the not-so-new-anymore millenium, The Whip delve into dark, driving …

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They’re not the first to combine punk and reggae, yet with bands like Sublime long gone, it’s refreshing to hear this hybrid sound again. Their latest single, “Dead to Me,” takes its listener on a roller coaster of moods from chill to aggressive.

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If L’Trimm dated Crystal Castles and moved their hot lil’ relationship to the dancefloor, they’d have a kid called Hearts Revolution, who are a disco-tastic melange of candy-coated 8-bit sounds, fuzzy child-like vocals, and lovable electro-pop.

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The New York-based singer-songwriter initially woos us with tone: lush acoustic guitar–redolent of classic fingerstyle folkies–and a breezy bedroom-pop voice. But his lyrics are his greater strength. In finely turned heartbreak ditties, Brannan isn’t afraid to feel a bit sorry for himself.

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Keeping with the theme for Q-Tip’s election day album release “The Renaissance,” remix extraordinaire J. Period teams up with the Abstract for an exclusive political freestyle over a classic Eric B. & Rakim instrumental.

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It’s too bad the term “seminal” has faded with overuse: it was made for work like this. The New York mixmaster was the influencer of influencers–the guy who raised sampling to new levels of eclecticism and art. New retrospective “What Does It All Mean?” is a must for rap …

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