“Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?” This is a question posed by St. Paul in Romans 6:1 that begins an investigation into how we are to continue to exist in a world of sin, and it’s a question that Drew Daniel posed to himself during the creation of The Soft Pink …

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I don’t play video games. I wish I could because I remember the escape from childhood, but they just don’t keep my attention anymore. But when a video game’s creator recruits Aesop Rock to provide the soundtrack you’ve got my attention. “Rap’s most verbose MC/producer” has released a new EP of music he created to …

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No Age have returned with “Feeler”, their latest off of “Goons be Gone” set for release early this summer. The song is nostalgic, not just in its sound – the thematic end to the choruses reminds of The Modern Lovers- but also in the montage of home-movie-type footage that comprises the video.  Of the video, …

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The new video for Ring Deathstarr’s “Gazin’” offers us something we almost never get to see: the band setting up at Austin’s iconic venue Hotel Vegas. I’ve been to countless Deathstarr shows at Hotel Vegas, and it’s to be expected that their amps will be lining the wall behind the stage, sound-checked and ready to …

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Timing is everything, and yet it’s completely intangible, even transcendent. So when Holy Boy, aka Helene Alexandra Jæge, released her funeral-version of the Doors hit “Riders on the Storm”, both to give a taste of her upcoming album (to be released this August) and to announce herself among the storm of acts that descends on …

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