Articles by Adam Feibel

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  IDLES' 'Ultra Mono' Is Punk Rock for the Twitter Age — for Better or Worse

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2020

  Like it or not, IDLES may be the face of punk rock in 2020. The sneering British band has exploded in popularity since releasing two critic...

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  Dikembe Remind Emo Fans That It's Okay to Be Sad on 'Muck'

  PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2020

  Mr. Hooper was one of the most beloved characters on Sesame Street. Cranky and curmudgeonly but with a heart of gold, he was beautifully po...

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  Thanya Iyer Explores a World of Sounds with Dazzling Clarity on 'KIND'

  PUBLISHED Jul 30, 2020

  How can we do better? It's a question that's often asked, but not often enough. Humans don't tend to like it when a question lingers for to...

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  Love '90s Guitar Music? Then You'll Dig Kestrels' 'Dream or Don't Dream'

  PUBLISHED Jul 7, 2020

  In the last few years, the '90s alt-rock revival has been able to flourish not only because several era-defining acts returned two decades...

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  Touching's 'Isolation Blues' Sounds Like a Greatest Hits of Pandemic Moods

  PUBLISHED Jul 3, 2020

  In a review of the 2015 album Some Kind of Family, Exclaim! called Winnipeg group Les Jupes "Canada's next great band." A week later, they...

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  Bad Moves' 'Untenable' Makes Today's Fraught Climate Sound Like a Party

  PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2020

  "We're still having a good time," Bad Moves emphasize in "End of Time," the final song on their second album Untenable. The band had a stro...

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  Niagara's Heavy Hearts Add to the Canon of Breakup Albums 'Room with a View'

  PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2020

  Every person is different, and so every relationship is different, and so every breakup is different. So, the ever-popular breakup album co...

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  Covet's 'Technicolor' Asserts Yvette Young as the Guitar Virtuoso of the Underground

  PUBLISHED Jun 4, 2020

  In recent years, Yvette Young has emerged as the guitar prodigy of the underground, giving stunning displays of technical proficiency, rhyt...