Here’s a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today:
Black Lips, 200 Million Thousand
Garage-poppers do stupid, messy, brilliant things.
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B-Real, Smoke N Mirrors
Hand-on-the-pump elder finds roaring second wind.
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Here We Go Magic, Here We Go Magic
Chameleonic songwriter quietly freaks out on you.
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Lamb of God, Wrath
Punk-metal brutes reject nuance, a.k.a. wussiness.
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