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Tom Baxendale’s Debut Album Will Make You Emotional

Plenty of artists have sought out to create their own personal sound, separate from their usual routine. Tom Baxendale shows us just what he can do in his new solo album that just dropped on September 26, In The City a Short Time Ago. Blending both folk and alternative rock have proven successful for this artist, […]

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Cymbals Eat Guitars Release Perfect Fourth Album

“What an odd band name,” you might be thinking. The Staten Island-born rock quartet took its moniker from a Lou Reed quote describing the sounds of The Velvet Underground. While the band itself sounds different from Reed’s experimental group, Cymbals Eat Guitars looks to artists like him, Bowie, Springsteen, and Young for inspiration on music […]

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PAPA Gives Indie Rock a Refreshing Spin with ‘Kick at the Dust’

When making a Sophomore album, there’s always that need to create something bigger and better than the predecessor. In the case of PAPA, an LA-based indie rock duo, their newly-released Sophomore album Kick at the Dust is more of an experiment with sounds than their debut. Having been kicking out content for 6 years, with their […]

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Patrick Krief Paints Lush Soundscapes in Automanic

Rock has become a tremendously tricky genre of late. Of all the genres that are undergoing fluid transitions, blending with various other genres, and weaving in and out of styles and classifications, rock is probably one of the most fluid. Patrick Krief, however, has specific ideas of not only what rock is, but also what […]

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Preoccupations Bring an ’80s Sound with New Album

With the number of bands that favor very intricate and elongated song titles (I’m looking at you, Fall Out Boy,) it’s a really nice change to see simplicity in song names. Preoccupations simplifies things for us with their new self-titled album. This Canadian group has recently released Preoccupations, their nine track album which features songs like “Sense,” […]

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D.S. Bradford Seeking Participants for Video

D.S. Bradford — rock musician, composer, visual artist, friend of IBG — is a busy man. Earlier this year, after several years of writing, D.S. Bradford recorded a powerful, sprawling concept album, Elemental Evolution. It touches on themes of fatherhood, unity, understanding, and peace. He wrote all the parts, played all of the instruments, recorded, […]

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We Used To Make Things Bring Some Jazz To Your Day

We Used to Make Things is more of a super-group than a band, I would say. This ensemble features eight people (yes, you read that right) in order to help perfect a very New Orleans jazz band meets The Beatles sound. Matthew, the creator of the band, started having a musical breakthrough back in 2008 […]

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The Raveonette’s New RSOTM Details Relationship Dysfunction

First of all, let me start by welcoming everyone back (or welcoming everyone to) our favorite time of the month! There has been yet another RAVE-SOUND-OF-THE-MONTH track released from the lovely Danish group The Raveonettes. If you have forgotten, or are new to this monthly tradition, The Raveonettes are a two piece Danish group that […]