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London pop act the XX’s new outing is slim, but not skeletal

Death rise from the grave for a solid cause

River City Extension’s present sound takes a swim in the past

Touchy-feely pop duo spins success out of slacking

Total Bummer 3-D fest feeds ‘undernourished’ Florida acts without the ‘corporate douchebaggery’ of other festivals

Alcest’s leader harvests joyful melancholy from a place only he knows

Miniature Tigers explore the wide world of female antagonists

Arc and Panther keep it heavy for the hell of it

Hook craftsmen Cloud Nothings show off a newly acquired sense of aggression

Ex-alt-rock kingpin Mike Doughty explores the nitty-gritty of addiction in new memoir

Tycho’s otherworldly phantasmagoria comes to fruition

The buoyant Givers bask in sonic sunshine

The daring normalcy of hip-hop artist Blueprint

Taraka Larson’s exotic sound and dizzying cross-cultural mysticism

Inside the daring, divisive world of Montreal trio AIDS Wolf

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