Two weeks ago, D.C. modern thrash veterans Darkest Hour offered “Wasteland,” the first official taste of new music from their upcoming self-titled album. Today, we get our second helping of new Darkest Hour in the form of “Rapture in Exile.” The band has premiered the track in the form of a music video that captures […]
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TWO-MINUTE NECK WORKOUT: Darkest Hour Release “Rapture in Exile”
July 15th, 2014 
Kevin Blumeyer 
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Dikembe Stream ‘Mediumship’ In Full
July 15th, 2014 Brian Leak Following three killer song streams over the past month and a half, the Gainesville, FL quartet known as Dikembe are now streaming the entirety of their upcoming full-length, Mediumship, through the bad-ass Pitchfork Advance. Oozing with energy, emotion, and maturity, Dikembe are sure to see a substantial rise to the top of the emo and […]
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Merchandise Announce Tour With Lower
July 15th, 2014 Nina Corcoran Post-punk band Merchandise are hitting the road this fall with Copenhagen group Lower. Normally this would come as a regular tour announcement, but both bands are known for engaging, impressive live shows, so this comes as a double-whammy of great guitar and mesmerizing vocalists. Merchandise just dropped a new music video for “Enemy” and Lower […]
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STREAM: Gnarwolves – “Smoking Kills”
July 15th, 2014 Kyle Florence Back in February, Gnarwolves graced us with a delightfully gritty compilation before retreating from the limelight to begin work on their self-titled debut. Though we’re still waiting on an exact release date, earlier this morning, we were given our first glimpse of the group’s forthcoming effort in the form of a fast-paced new single titled […]
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UTG INTERVIEW: Pitchfork Music Festival Bands on Their Favorite Chicago Hangouts
July 15th, 2014 Nina Corcoran We’re a little more than excited for Pitchfork Music Festival to arrive this year considering it has an awesome record fair (Chirp!), top notch food vendors (Rice Table! Puffs of Doom!), and a beautifully stacked lineup (Slowdive! Beck! Neutral Milk Hotel!). The festival will take place over at Union Park on July 18-20 for three days of great music […]
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The Acfields May Soon Be Your New Favorite Folk Duo
July 15th, 2014 James Shotwell Brother and sister duos are not the rarest commodity in the modern music landscape, but finding one that stands out as undeniably unique is a true rarity. I won’t guarantee I have found such a duo just yet, but it’s certainly possible The Acfields will be winning over many hearts worldwide in no time at […]
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Watch A New ‘Big Hero 6’ Trailer
July 15th, 2014 Drew Caruso Disney’s first Marvel animated experience, Big Hero 6, due for release November 7, has gotten a new trailer. Highlighting more plot points than we have seen before, Big Hero 6 stars Hiro, voiced by Ryan Potter, a robot prodigy who helps design a superhero team of untrained and inexperienced crime fighters, who must fight an […]
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Take a Step Back and Listen to a Full Stream of Anberlin’s Final Album, ‘Lowborn’
July 15th, 2014 Adrian Garza Sure it’s taken a while to get to this day, no thanks to a push back, but the conclusion of Anberlin‘s epic musical career is beginning to feel more real than ever now that their final album is streaming in full on Pandora. Lowborn will be releasing on June 23 through Tooth & Nail Records and […]
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Every Weezer Fan Needs To Spend Time With ‘You Blue It!’ This Week
July 15th, 2014 James Shotwell It’s truly rare that a covers album rises above the level of novelty to become something worth longtime admiration. Of the dozens, if not hundreds of covers releases and compilations created every year, only a handful are ever deemed worthy of coverage by the vast majority of press, and of those few even less are […]
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Need A Little Funk In Your Life? Take A Moment To Discover Harts
July 15th, 2014 James Shotwell It’s not every day that Prince compliments a relatively unknown talent, but upon hearing the work of Harts, the man who gave us Purple Rain remarked, “He reminds me of how I was at that age.” I could go on and on about the way I felt the first time I heard Harts’ latest single, […]
La Roux Previews ‘Trouble In Paradise’
July 15th, 2014 Mike Giegerich With less than a week until the release of her highly anticipated sophomore full-length, electro-pop artist La Roux is streaming clips of each track from Trouble In Paradise on her official website. The album hits stores July 21, but pre-order options are still available here for those who want to go ahead and purchase their […]
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Fall Under The Spell Of Knuckle’s Dirty Rock With “Living Hell”
July 15th, 2014 James Shotwell I made it a point over the past month to pay more attention to the up and coming artists whose press releases flood my inbox on a regular basis. In a perfect world I would listen to every single promo I received, but with 200+ messages coming in each day, allotting that much time to […]
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