Hearing that a band is from Brooklyn may predetermine your attitude towards it, but good music rises above petty biases, good or bad. Soren Well is a quintet from the aforementioned trendy borough that plays a frighteningly accurate amalgamation of Loveless-era shoegaze with showers of guitars and dreamscape vocals. The tonal similarities to My Bloody […]

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I have no idea why this happens, but sometimes I can hear songs dozens of times without really noticing them. Then one day I’m gobsmacked out of nowhere. This White Rabbits tune had this exact effect on me. It’s been out for a few months, and I’ve heard it plenty of times on Sirius XMU. […]

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The Guardian’s John Robb questions whether punk legends Crass – or a band with similarly extreme ideals – could exist in today’s musical and social climate. Are kids today too cynical to buy into such ideals? Was Crass’ success outside the mainstream merely a product of extraordinary times? The band played its last show 25 […]

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