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Review: Bat Hazzard – Out of The Cave
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/stephanie-harrison-jack-batty.png&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tBat Hazzard is a blast of punk-inspired attitude mixed with surf and garage-reverb’d groove, jazzy horn madness and a lot of desert-influenced creepiness.
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Interview: Death To Giants
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/death-to-giants-interview.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tDoughnuteer Chris interviews rising death pop duo Death To Giants; a Shanghai based outfit full of spastic metal riffs spiked with catchy pop melodies.
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Feature: Copyright and Fair Use: The New Prohibition - Andy Baio
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/kind-of-bloop-8-bit-tribute-miles-davis.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=t“The only laws broken more than copyright are speeding and jaywalking... a ticket for speeding will not ruin your life, it’ll ruin your day.” - Andy Baio on copyright infringement and fair use in The New Prohibition
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Review: Silver Arm - Singles
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/silver-arm-dead-tongues.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tFrom noise to psychedelics to grunge and hardcore, Silver Arm on Computer Finger Records don't shy away from their influences on their first three releases.
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Review: EndAnd - Mechanics & Energetics of Stilt-Running
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/endand-mechanics-review.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tWith Mechanics & Energetics of Stilt-Running, Brooklyn based punk band EndAnd fully realise their grunge roots with a short but poppy sweet new album.
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The Future Primitives – Garage rock from the southern tip of Africa
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/the-future-primitives–garage-rock.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tSouth African garage rockers, The Future Primitives, are set for very big, very exciting things.
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Review: BEAST – Smoke Swig Swear
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/beast-band-smoke-swear.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tIf you're intrigued by a South African supergroup with two bass guitars, Cape Town band BEAST brings the noise with their debut album Smoke Swig Swear.
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Review: Apparat - Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/apparat-krieg-und-frieden-music-for-theatre.png&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tApparat's latest, Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre), is the soundtrack to an art-house film that never was. Whatever it is, it’s engaging and immersive.
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Review: Marvin B. Naylor - Little Bell
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/marvin-b-naylor-folk-review.png&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tMarvin B. Naylor's love of his 12 string guitar is his jangly impetus, now the enchanting drone is a well stretched canvas for the story of Little Bell.
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Nü Sensae Interview at Shacklewell Arms, London
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/nu-sensae-london-interview.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tAfter their show at the Shacklewell Arms in London, Damian Burke caught up with Vancouver's Nü Sensae about their first overseas tour, their music and dogs.
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Review: Tomahawk - Oddfellows
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/tomahawk-oddfellows-review.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tOddfellows is Tomahawk's most realized effort since their debut and in the words of Mary Shelley, the "Adam of their labours"...
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Review: Mike Marlin - Grand Reveal
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/mike-marlin-grand-reveal-review.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tWhile Mike Marlin's Grand Reveal does deal with the passing of time and its effect on the observer, toadying adult contemporary this is not.
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Review: Sleep In - Twins [Deluxe]
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/sleep-in-twins-deluxe-review.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tSleep In is Hamish Duncan, a prolific young Australian multi-instrumentalist, who has been releasing an album every 6 to 8 months; Twins [Deluxe] being the latest.
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VETO – The Coolest Danish Band You’ve Never Heard
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/veto-sinus.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tVETO may not be a household name when it comes to indie music, but that’s not to say they don’t deserve to be.
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Review: Salva – Odd Furniture
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/salva–odd-furniture-ep-review.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tPulling from subgenres of subgenres like trap, hardstyle, and dubstep, Salva’s 5-track EP is a brief but noteworthy advancement of an emerging style that no one really has a name for.
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United Vibrations – We Never Die
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/united-vibrations-we-never-die.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=t"We Never Die" opens with a carefully orchestrated lyrical blast aimed at failed public policy and questions the loyalty of the UK's government to ALL its people (not just the privileged & royal)…
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Nü Sensae - Sundowning
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/nu-sensae-sundowning.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tNü Sensae’s sophomore album, Sundowning, ends as it begins – with shrieking war cries propelled by some sort of internal tectonic disruption...
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Diggs Duke – ‘Patiently, We Bloom’
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/diggs-duke-patiently-we-bloom.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tHear it here - Diggs Duke is a talented young jazz and soul artist, and his heartfelt 'Patiently, We Bloom' is superb.
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Nameless Coyote – Devoured by the Swirling Night
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/nameless-coyote-devoured-by-swirling-night.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tAn anonymous one man project from San Francisco, Nameless Coyote stitches blast beats and guttural vocals into swirling sounds – invoking more calm than krieg.
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Darren Deicide - Bomb This Joint / Hudson River Hangover
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/darren-deicide-bomb-joint-hudson-river.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tFoot stomping energy blended with a self-styled (if stewed) approach to music bears Darren Deicide, a New Jersey devil dabbling in old blues.
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Review: Flowerland - The Caffeine Disk EP
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/flowerland-caffeine-disk-ep.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tFlowerland recorded these six tracks in 1993; Grunge, distilled from alternative rock which was excavated from heavy metal, The Caffeine Disk EP has it all.
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Sam Owens - How To Build A Clock
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/sam-owens-how-to-build-a-clock.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tFrom start to full circle, here is our review of Sam Owens' unmissable folk, blues, pop and soul creation titled How To Build A Clock. Listen to it here.
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Tune-o-matic Guitar Bridge Adjustment: Lowering The Action
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/lowering-action-on-gibson-electric-guitar.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tAdjusting the action on a Tune-o-matic bridge is easy, and can have a huge impact on your playing by making it easier to play while reducing fret buzz.
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Review: Time and Energy - Strange Kind of Focus
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/time-and-energy-strange-kind-of-focus.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tTime and Energy are a duo from California who create a warm blend of progged-out jazz and folk. Listen to their record, Strange Kind of Focus, right here.
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Clones of Clones
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/clones-of-clones-ep.png&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tIn their own words, Clones of Clones still have that “new band smell”. Here’s ‘The Neighborhood Song’, the first single from their upcoming debut EP.
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Dogcatcher
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The Debut EP from Arêtes – Gods
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United Vibrations – Galaxies Not Ghettos
http://doughnutmag.com/wp-content/plugins/slideshow-gallery/vendors/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/united-vibrations-galaxies-not-ghettos1.jpg&w=600&h=600&q=100&a=tA split personality between the brilliant horn & bass arrangements of a mature musical pioneer and the unfocused words of inexperienced poet.
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Caeser Pink & The Imperial Orgy - Four Legs Good, Two Legs Baaad!
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Brown Bread & Von Holt
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