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US: Royal Headache - "High"Why does everyone copy the wrong bands? Do we need another band to "discover" Dinosaur Jr or Arcade Fire or Neutral Milk Hotel or Joy Division or Pavement? We get it, 90s indie is tight. Why not work with influences that will carve your own niche in the world? Like Australian favourites Royal Headache, who borrow The Jam and Buzzcocks but still manage to sound like Guided by Voices from time to time. This is the title track "High" from their new LP due on US label What's Yr Rupture? and it rips. What's more, it may be one of the low points from the record… which says a lot. You need this.Australia: Wireheads - "Good Grief"In November 2014, Adelaide band Wireheads travelled to Olympia, Washington to record their second album with Calvin Johnson at his Dub Narcotic Studio. "Good Grief" is a product of that weeklong stay.France: Straugsbourg - "Jesus"Because cold-punk is what we need when temperature's rising in the office. Note : Strasbourg are not from Strasbourg but from Bordeaux, France.Canada: Cmdwn - "We Are Not"We're in a post-OG Maco world, and this young group of kids from Toronto is the first evidence of the aggressive yell raps finding their place in the modern rap landscape. Toronto is not a place where new ideas grow, but it's where trends become solidified, and this proves that yell-rapping is very much still a thing.Denmark: First Hate - "Warsawa"
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