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#b-sides-and-rarities

The AT-LP120XUSB features basically everything you could want from a modern, upgraded turntable. The built-in phono preamp lets you easily swap the turntable from your headphones to your speakers without any extra steps or hardware.

Geoff Rickly began Thursday's set in the balcony, giving the first public performance of No Devolución track 'Empty Glass', which had previously been performed during a 2021 livestream set.

I love reading about bands. I've read the AllMusic reviews of my favorite albums multiple times over. If my Apple Music selection has a writeup to go with, I'll read it. And I can read a good band book in a matter of hours. I'm not a professional nostalgia whore, but reading about these bands really does put me back in that time, and in that headspace. Like the music itself! I can't get enough of that particular high.

Images of Life comprises three LPs; Strange Mysterious Sounds (1965-1970) centers on Lucas' early bands; Rainy Days (1970-1974) gathers solo material from the lead-up to his 1975 self-titled album; and Impossible Love (1979) is a 'lost' album produced by Don Was.

It's times like these that make you realize, this is community. You know, this is having each other's back when we are all struggling. Every decade or so, it pops up again and they start kind of questioning our belonging. It's more important than ever to express yourself ... that you're not assimilating, you're not going to give up on your culture.

American Football's highly anticipated LP4 arrives on May 1 via Polyvinyl, and after sharing the 8-minute first single, "Bad Moons," they've revealed a few more details about the album. It was produced by Sonny Diperri and features guest vocals from Brendan Yates of Turnstile, Caithlin De Marrais of Rainer Maria, and Wisp.

This guy started playing piano at the age of 3. This is such a complicated, amazing musician. This is the only guy that Miles Davis said, 'That guy can play!' Keenan praised Ahmad Jamal's exceptional musicianship and technical proficiency, emphasizing the pianist's influence and recognition from jazz legend Miles Davis.

The new album Everything Must Go arrives on April 24 via Bad Time Records and Community Records, and first single 'Free Dom' is out now. It finds Bad Operation doing what they do best, fusing 2 Tone's influence with fresh, urgent new ideas and coming out with something danceable, catchy, and powerful.

'Cool Job' pulls from meme culture pastiche and 'Temporary Secretary' trope to skewer the fantasy that the right job will save your life. Written mid-burnout, it's an anti-work anthem about corporate rot, identity collapse, and trying to care about meetings that could have been emails while everything else is falling apart.

When Braid broke up, guitarist/secondary vocalist Chris Broach formed The Firebird Band, and the remaining three members - frontman Bob Nanna, bassist Todd Bell, and drummer Damon Atkinson - recruited guitarist Mark Dawursk of Alligator Gun and continued on as Hey Mercedes. They recorded it with Jawbox's J. Robbins, who had also produced Braid's classic 1998 swan song Frame & Canvas, and in many ways, it picked up where Frame & Canvas left off.

Last year saw the highest vinyl record sales since 1984, signaling a strong desire among music enthusiasts to return to a simpler time of physical media. Even cassette tapes are making a comeback, with major artists including Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift releasing their material on the iconic plastic, four-inch audio reels. Now, self-described "party slam" metal band Party Cannon is taking the nostalgia play - often framed as an act of defiance against greedy and AI-slop-infested streaming platforms - to a new level.

"The record has this theme of liminality - not just as a place, but in your mind,"

Boston screamo/post-hardcore band The Saddest Landscape are back with their first new album in a decade. Alone With Heaven is due out April 24 via Iodine, and produced in part by the late Steve Albini, one of the last projects he worked on before his death in 2024. They also recorded it with Jack Shirley, and it features appearances from Touché Amoré's Jeremy Bolm, Into It. Over It.'s Evan Weiss, and Julien Baker. We have an exclusive "Where Angels Ascend" cloudy vinyl variant, limited to 100 copies. Pre-order yours in the BV shop.

Cali indiepop greats Rocketship are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1996 debut album A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness by giving it its first vinyl pressing since the original release. This is much needed as original copies fetch for over $200 in the secondary market. It's out March 20 via Slumberland and you can preorder it here. The album, which mixed sugary melodies and jangly guitars with shoegaze atmosphere and krautrock drone, sounds pretty fresh in 2026 and you can listen below.

Fresh off the release of the Eyeball EP in January, They Might Be Giants have now announced their new album, The World Is to Dig, and released its lead single, "Wu-Tang." Out on April 14th, The World Is to Dig marks the band's first full-length album in five years, following their Grammy-nominated LP, BOOK, that came out in 2021. The World Is to Dig will feature 18 new tracks. An exclusive 180-gram vinyl color variant of the LP will be available at indie retail shops on April 17th. Get They Might Be Giant Tickets Here "Wu-Tang" is the first glimpse of what fans can expect, and if its sweetly nostalgic, 60s-esque sound is anything to go by, The World Is to Dig will be a romp through the past. Stream the new track and see the artwork below.

Dream Fatigue is a new-ish Massachusetts band launched by former Fleshwater/Vein drummer Matt Wood and fronted by Jonali McFadden, and they make shoegazy alt-rock that's not too different from what Matt was doing in Fleshwater. They released their debut LP The Lady In The Sky in 2024, and now they announced a new seven-song EP, No Requiem, due February 13 via DAZE ( pre-order).