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"Like their namesake, the band is more at home in the night, skulking around in the wash of your headlights, half daring you to run it over."

Eartheater (aka Alex Drewchin) extols the virtues of Gang Gang Dance's non-escapist, non-pacifying new record.

Andy Falkous dissects the evolutions, both of genre and band name, on Smote Reverser.

Julien Baker reflects on Death Cab for Cutie's latest record and the inevitability of change.

Per Eric Slick, "Be less conceptual and more direct."

How sweet it would be if we acknowledged our friendships in music as much as we did our romances.

Or, at least, the new Ty Segall/White Fence collab makes Ali Koehler wish it were.

"John Coltrane's work was love in all of its messy and complicated and Godly glory."

Nandi Rose Plunkett's latest album explores the catch-22 of being human.

"If the song is longer than four minutes and 20 seconds, you’re pushing it, buddy."

On their latest album, the band turns the personal into the anthemic.

"Instead of crying and puking about all the troubles of the world, this record offers a different solution: dancing it all out."