Discologist

The internet has given us a lot of things, but probably its most valuable contribution to society (besides cat videos) has been access to loads and loads of stats. A recent study by Value Penguin (internet stat provider!) went ahead and ranked the quality of music cities around America. Noble goal. Dubious results. Because internet.

On Lydia Loveless's fourth album, Real, the Ohio-based singer/songwriter is growing in all kinds of new directions. Kevin and Paul get real about the songs, the critical acclaim for Loveless's work after Indestructible Machine, and the (possible) wrongheadedness of their own expectations. 

Baltimore is kinda killing it this year...again. And Wing Dam is gonna kick you around the sun straight back to the fuzzed out heyday of Smashing Pumpkins, and...well...Smashing Pumpkins. The Corgainasance is real folks. Really real. 

• "New study ranks the best (and worst) U.S. cities for music fans" [Consequence Of Sound]
• Learn more about Wing Dam
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• Check out the track "I'm Wild" from Baltimore's Wing Dam below!

Real
Lydia Loveless

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Leaks are de rigueur in this digital age, and recently the band Twenty One Pilots had a new track freed from its capitalist coil and spread forth across the digital oceans for the masses to "enjoy." This didn't sit well with the  powers-that-be, and so it was that Reddit deliver unto them the head (name) of the vile curr who would commit such a crime. Reddit said no. What now doods?

At this point it's generally understood that singer/songwriter Cass McCombs is a de facto national treasure. He made a new album, so just like all his other albums, we're obliged to talk about it. 

Snail Mail is from Baltimore. Snail Mail makes rock. We'd tell you more, but it's better you just turn it up and find out for yourself. 

• "Reddit Refuses to Disclose Alleged Music Leaker’s IP Address" - [Torrent Freak]
• Learn more about Snail Mail
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• Check out the track "Thinning" from Snail Mail's debut EP below!

Mangy Love
Cass McCombs

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FOUR long years we waited.

FOUR long years we wondered.

FOUR long years some of us even tweeted our frustration about it.

Now that Frank Ocean's Blonde is here, what the f%$% are we gonna do with ourselves?

• "Frank Ocean and the virtues of boredom" - [Washington Post]
• Learn more about Frank Ocean's latest, Blonde [link]
• Learn more about Noname
  Official Site | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram
  Listen On: Soundcloud | Apple Music
• Listen to our review of Noname's Telefone [link]
• Check out the track "Yesterday" from Noname's Telefone, below!

Blonde
Frank Ocean

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Eduardo: Stream It
Marcus: Pass

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Sooooooo..Apple Music just bought Cash Money Records, guys. Hashtag "It's on!"

Lori McKenna is one of the most respected songwriters working "in" Nashville today. On her tenth album , The Bird & The Rifle she's stepping out once again and proving that whether it's behind the scenes or on the big stage, she's one of the best around.

On their latest album, Ambulance, Sweden's The Amazing have embarked on yet another sonic sojourn through the cosmos, and we've got a taste of the title track for you to hitch a ride on.

• "Apple Music Signs ‘Power Move’ Label Deal With Cash Money Records" [Music Business Worldwide]
• Learn more about The Amazing
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• Check out the title track from The Amazing's Ambulance, below.

The Bird & The Rifle
Lori McKenna

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One of the greatest potential casualties of our fundamentally damaged copyright laws may be the erasure of not just black cultural history, but the unwinding of the artistic fabric that makes up America. De La Soul knows this first hand. 

On his sophomore album, soul/folk powerhouse Michael Kiwanuka aims for the stratosphere...and gets there. #spoilers

Dance punk isn't dead, but it isn't alive either. Zula is something...more.

• "De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo" [New York Times]
• Learn more about Zula
• Official Site | Facebook | Twitter | Bandcamp
• Check out the track "Getting Warm" from Zula's Grasshopper (out 8/26).

Love & Hate

Michael Kiwanuka

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One of the greatest potential  casualties of our fundamentally damaged copyright laws may be the erasure of not just black cultural history, but the unwinding of the artistic fabric that makes up America. De La Soul knows this first hand. 

On his sophomore album, soul/folk powerhouse Michael Kiwanuka aims for the stratosphere...and gets there. #spoilers

Dance punk isn't dead, but it isn't alive either. Zula is something...more.

• "De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo" [New York Times]
• Learn more about Zula
  Official Site | Facebook | Twitter | Bandcamp
• Check out the track "Getting Warm" from Zula's Grasshopper (out 8/26).

Love & Hate
Michael Kiwanuka

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Patrick: BUY IT
Eduardo: BUY IT

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Warner Music exec Mike Jbara is leaving the entertainment monolith to join "HD music" firm MQA. Is there new music format the future of music, or just another Ogg-Vorbis in the also-ran annals of history.

Richmond, Virginia's Avers is back Omega/Whatever, the follow up to 2014's head trip of a debut, Empty Light. Did they survive the sophomore slump? All signs point to HELL YES!

Mild High Club. Great band. Questionably great pun. We've got a the heady title track off of their upcoming album Skiptracing (out 8/26 on Stones Throw Records) for you to toke on.  

• "Mike Jbara Leaves Warner After  20 Years To Head Up Hd Music Firm Mqa" [Music Business Worldwide]

• Learn more about Mild High Club
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• Check out the track "Skiptracing" from Mild High Club's Skiptracing, below.

Omega/Whatever
Avers

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Anticipation. Excitement. Elation. Confusion. Disappointment. This week, Frank Ocean is all of these things and more.

Supremely talented Chicago MC Noname first announced herself to the world two years ago on Chance The Rapper's Acid Rap. On Telefone, she's finally stepping out on her own with one of the strongest statements on womanhood, life in the hood, and life in general that we've heard in recent memory. Marcus K, Dowling and Briana Younger join us to discuss this monumental mix-tape that was well worth the wait.

PLUS! Singer/songwriter Esmé Patterson's critically acclaimed LP We Were Wild, is as perfect a slice of pop-rock that you're going to find in 2016. We've got a new track to help get you acquainted.

• "Frank Ocean Is Working on His Own Terms" [The Atlantic]

• Learn more about Esme Patterson
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• Listen on:
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• Check out the track "Wantin Ain't Gettin" from Esme Patterson's We Were Wild, below.

Telefone
noname

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Explore Telefone on GENIUS

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Rumor has it that despite the constant cries of “foul”, 98% of all videos (over ONE BILLION) on YouTube are 100% kosher from a licensing perspective. Say what?

Twenty-five years in the making, Nels Cline’s Lovers captures the passion and history of an artist who has spent a lifetime pursuing his musical truth. On his Blue Note debut, Cline mashes together original compositions with interpretations of the music that has informed his career to craft a delicate statement about relationships, the worth of self-indulgence and jazz’s place in the modern music space.

And speaking of modern jazz….

Guitarist Julian Lage - a frequent collaborator of Cline’s - put out a slightly phenomenal album in 2015. We’ve got a taste of World’s Fair to jog your memory

• "98% of YouTube Music Videos Are Completely Authorized. Now What?" [Digital Music News]
• Learn more about Julian Lage
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Lovers
Nels Cline

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Soundcloud may be up for sale, and Deezer, yet another streaming music service launches in the US. Just another day in the #streamingwars.

Fronted by punk legend Kathleen Hannah, The Julie Ruin is back with Hit Reset, a savage record that's all killer and no filler. Like you expected anything less.

And speaking of savage...Washington DC jazz-emo-thrash duo Dove Lady may be lacking in members but they make up for it with a righteous, and righteously sophisticated, noise. We've got a track for you to feed your head with. 

• SoundCloud finally allows users to upload music as “albums,” site reportedly up for sale [Tiny Mix Tapes]
• Deezer Launches Its Music Streaming Service In US With Confusing Paid And Free Tier Options [The Tech Times]
• Learn more about Washington, DC's Dove Lady:
• Bandcamp

Hit Reset
The Julie Ruin

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