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Interview with Chris Connelly on Doo Wop In The Dark and Lou Reed

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Raised On Candy Releases ‘Pickle Eyes’ via Magic Door Record Label

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Matt Devine on Ventilator’s Reseda Spleen, Thirty Years Later: An Interview

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Interview with Light Conductor: Stephen Ramsay on Vintage Synths and the End of a Trilogy

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A Shoreline Dream © Ryan Policky

Single “20” arrives via Latenight Weeknight Records ahead of the album “Waiting”

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jim woodring interview

Jim Woodring Talks Ink, Instinct, and the Logic of the Unifactor

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Steve Bates An Infinite Antenna interview

Steve Bates on Static, Radio Dials and His New Album An Infinite Antenna: Interview

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Apology Kink Good Attention

Minneapolis Synthpop Act Apology Kink Drops “Good Attention” via GIVE/TAKE

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Jacqui Hunt interview

Interview: Jacqui Hunt on Her First Solo Album in 18 Years

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Raw Electronics Without Compromise: Portion Control on 47 Years of Industrial Synthesis

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Lawrence English

Lawrence English On Acid Nostalgia In The Rest Is My Ghost

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PISS Premieres “Time Loop at Hot Slit” Ahead of Debut LP

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Kyle Ryan

Junior Pro Premieres 2 of Us Video Ahead of LP Cool

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Cor de lux © Jordan Olivia Howell

Cor de Lux Talk Politics, the Outer Banks and the Year Of The Horse

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Duncan Maitland © Nick Haeffner

Duncan Maitland Returns with New Single “Dummy” Ahead of “Chamberling”

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Tiny Magnetic Pets © Conor Kerr

Dublin’s Tiny Magnetic Pets Return With the Astralux EP

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Sweeping Promises @ Shawn Brackbill

Interview with Sweeping Promises About ‘You Say I Romanticize’

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Chris Connelly House of 70's

Chris Connelly releases first single from upcoming Lou Reed tribute album

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Identical Leah Hayes review

The Unsettling Plastic Tragedy of Identity: A Review of Identical by Leah Hayes

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Laurent Moitrot

Laurent Moitrot Releases “The High Life” / “Le Blues du H.L.M.” via Magic Door Records

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Jah Wobble & Tian Qiyi photo by Alex Hurst

Jah Wobble and Tian Qiyi’s Mystic Liverpool Reworks The Beatles’ Psychedelic Years

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Fling ii Interview: Brad Gowland Discusses 3, Modular Gear, and Motorik Grooves

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Deardarkhead

New Jersey’s Deardarkhead Break a 25 Year Silence on “The Pendulum Swings”

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© The Room

The Room Return With “Things Have Learnt to Walk that Ought to Crawl”

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© Dazzling Killmen

An Interview with Blake Fleming on Dazzling Killmen’s Second Act

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Robin Ross Blood Lines photo by Tina Ross

Robin Ross and Carmine Gontz Team Up on New Single “Blood Lines”

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Koichi Yamamotop

Koichi Yamamoto on Repetition, Registration, and Revelation

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Cabaret Voltaire Reissue CODE as Their Final North American Shows Begin

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Jon Spencer on Personal Loss, Protest and Rock and Roll’s Fighting Spirit

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Earth Tongue interview

Gussie Larkin of Earth Tongue Talks Dungeon Vision and Its Escapist World

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