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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Cohen
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysFollowing two surprise reunion sets last weekend at Los Angeles’ Permanent Records, beloved Washington, D.C.-reared rock outfit Shudder to Think are working on their first new music since the late 1990s and eyeing additional performances later this year.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Cohen
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
spin.com | Jonathan Cohen
The eyes of music lovers are once again trained on Manchester, U.K., thanks to Noel and Liam Gallagher’s surprise, box office-busting Oasis reunion and former Smiths frontman Morrissey‘s comments about a proposed reunion with his long-estranged bandmate, Johnny Marr. As they’ve done for 42 years, Manchester rock outfit James are perfectly content to float above it all, and it sure seems to be paying some late-career dividends.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
aol.com | Jonathan Cohen
September 16, 2024 at 11:00 AMSunny Day Real Estate have never really been the nostalgic type. After all, this is a band that broke up months after releasing one of the most influential rock albums of the ’90s (Diary), got back together and broke up again within a couple of years, and then disappeared completely for nearly a decade on two subsequent occasions.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
fiftygrande.com | Jonathan Cohen
This story is part of the Fall Travel issue, which is on sale here. After a 10-year hiatus, Travis Morrison is leaving his tech gig in Durham, N.C., behind and going back on the road with his bandmates in The Dismemberment Plan — at least for a couple of weekends this fall.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Cohen
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard try rude, Ween-style country scuzz on for size while “doot-doodle-doo” guitar grease glistens like a bucket of KFC on “Hog Calling Contest,” the second song to emerge from their upcoming album, Flight b741. Fueled by a dexterous bass line and theatrical, falsetto singing, the track also offers amusing, pig-related wordplay (rhyming “swine” with “spine”) and full-band, gang vocal accents.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
spin.com | Jonathan Cohen
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard will set up shop in five different European cities next summer for three-show residencies in each, beginning May 18 in Lisbon. The Australian group will then proceed to Barcelona, Vilnius, Lithuania, Athens and Plovdiv, Bulgaria for additional performances, tickets for which will be available for pre-sale tomorrow (June 11) and to the general public on Thursday. A limited number of bundles for all three shows per city will be sold at a 10% discount.
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May 29, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Cohen
Wilco will release a new digital EP, Hot Sun Cool Shroud, on June 28 to coincide with its long-running Solid Sound festival taking place that same weekend at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Ma. The six-song project features material recorded but not completed during sessions for the band’s 2023 album Cousin. “It’s fun to have something new to release at Solid Sound,” Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy says. “This year weʼre putting out an EP with a summertime-after-dark kind of feeling.
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May 5, 2024 | 
aol.com | Jonathan Cohen
May 5, 2024 at 7:01 PMDeerhoof Drop Love-Lore, a Surprise 'Live' Album of Eclectic CoversFor the past 30 years, few groups have been as synonymous with the experimental music spirit of New York than Bang on a Can, and few pieces embody that spirit more than Steve Reich’s landmark 1976 work Music for 18 Musicians.
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May 3, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Cohen
Jeremy Enigk was barely 19 years old when he and his bandmates in Sunny Day Real Estate recorded their hugely influential debut album, Diary, at Chicago’s Idful Studios. A year later, the band would split for the first of several times, but despite lingering interpersonal drama, Diary has endured ever since as a pillar of emotionally resonant post-hardcore music.
