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Joy Division revised. Lily Seabird soars. (opens the original)
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Support independent music journalism. Paid subscribers make New Music + Old Music possible and get to hear / read all the good stuff in full.A couple of longer reviews this weekend, while I finish my monthly new music playlist — paid subscribers, you’ll have links to it in your inbox before the calendar-page flips. It’s a doozy.I’ll be at the <a href="https://brooklynbookfestival.org/event/when-worlds-collide-how-the-nyc-underground-rewrote-g
Dromfest’s indie-rock homecoming. 7 new LPs. (opens the original)
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New Music + Old Music is wholly reader-supported. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber.Marcy Mays and Sue Harshe — of Columbus, Ohio post-punk heroes Scrawl — did the math onstage. “Nice Strong… Read more
Musicians, culture + visas post-9/11 (opens the original)
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Thank you to everyone who tuned into our livestream Thursday afternoon! No worries — we’re not hard-pivoting to video here at New Music + Old Music. But we do try to use the right tools for the right job.Feel free to jump right into the video above. Below, you’ll find some background. NB: As Matthew and I discuss in the livestream, Tamizdat conducts monthly online informational “Office Hours” about practical matters of musician/artist travel — applying for O visas, P visas, etc. — via Zoom. The
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “Hyperballad” (Björk cover) (New Song of the Day #59) (opens the original)
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5 LPs. 97 new songs for September. (opens the original)
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@ - AutosmileThe Philly (via Baltimore via Boston) psych folk duo with the search-resistant name (see Four Tet’s alias LP, below) makes songs I don’t always love on first listen. If I do, I might like them less on second listen, but then more on third, still more on fourth. Thing is: there’s something that makes me listen, repeatedly, to get to the bottom of them. It has to do with how slyly Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak — call them “at” — build their 2020s indie folk-rock with ‘60s and ‘70s
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