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Under his moniker Lucy — an acronym for Love Unity Communication Yes? — Cooper B. Handy today drops his Devoted EP — a fresh trio of shoestring pop gems. …

Prolific alt-pop songwriters Lily Konigsberg (Palberta) and Nate Amos (Water From Your Eyes) teamed up to become My Idea and make an album of bangers. What resulted was a far more emotionally draining experience than any could have expected, they tell Jasper Willems Lily Konigsberg and Nate Amos are itching…

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For nearly two decades, Roadburn festival has been a pilgrimage for zealots of heavy music. Over the past few years, however, the Tilburg-based event has made a concentrated effort to redefine heaviness. Surely, there’s more to heaviness than occult imagery and Lovecraftian monstrosities, right? Right. Well, for the past half-decade…

During the pandemic, art, culture and music were pretty much stuck in the detention room, the last things on the political agenda over here in the Benelux. The notion that it’s all just recreation, something elitist to help satisfy cheap hedonistic thrills is swiftly debunked yet again by the dynamic…

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That’s a wrap for November, so — unless SZA decides to surprise-release her new record during the holidays — it’s also pretty much a wrap for albums in 2021. Time to make up my goddamn mind on which ten records stuck around the most into my psyche. Of course, this…

Today, more than any other day, I’m excited to write about Ought. That this excitement comes in the wake of the band’s recently announced breakup may be considered a bit, well, insensitive. …