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With some help from Esther Rose, Video Age reconstruct their synthy hit "Out In The Country" from 2023's critically acclaimed Away From The Castle LP into a mellow-mannered acoustic tune that glides into the realm of alt-country. newcommute.net/feed/2024/8/5/…

With intensifying layers of polyrhythmic drum machines, bass, guitar, and sax, the immersive “Shorn” exhibits the mastery of Butterss’ craft. newcommute.net/feed/2024/8/14…

Pavement performing In the Mouth a Desert live at the Khyber Pass (Philadelphia, 1992)

The chrome and steel he rides

New Commute Now every Monday newcommute.net/feed/2024/8/19…

Full respect for Edie Brickell, a true baggy goddess

Grounded at the center of mass of their sprawling folky geometries, the second live album from free-experimental trio Setting from a performance at Asheville’s Eulogy venue captures their spontaneous and wildly enlightening real-time energies. newcommute.net/feed/2024/8/20…

Definitely definite

Dear Life Hopscotch Music Fest Day Party is this Friday! Come through for a stacked lineup at Neptunes Parlour with free coffee by Raleigh’s Black and White Roasters

One vote for a Tucker Zimmerman+Michael Hurley tour

Thanks as always to New Commute for including Nina Ryser's 'Underestimate'! newcommute.net/feed/2024/9/1/…

Rose Main Reading Room, Peel Dream Magazine’s fourth record, recalibrates their ever-evolving sound achieving its most refined and intellectual synthesis of easy listening, krautrock, and unnervingly precise pop. newcommute.net/feed/2024/9/3/…

From the shaggy, unassuming Southern rock wunderkind, Manning Fireworks is a masterstroke of raw spirit and sly artistry, sanding down the emotional heft of its working class manifestos with songwriting that’s ragged, loose, and refreshingly human. newcommute.net/feed/2024/9/3/…

cc: MJ Lenderman

Might fug around and watch 400 concerts at Hopscotch Music Fest

A day spent with the Dear Life Records family is good medicine. Best label, best people, best hang.

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