Mike Katzif

Ex Hex's <em>It's Real</em> is due out March 22 on Merge.

On 'It's Real,' Ex Hex Keep Ripping, Unearthing New Terrain In The Process

Mike Katzif

The D.C.-based three-piece Ex Hex, in a word, rocks. For its new record, the band shakes up the frayed-but-taut tumult for which its known with some nods to '70s prog-rock and '80s hair-metal.

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TEEN's Exuberant 'Only Water' Ruminates On Loss And Celebrates Life

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The Brooklyn band's first single from Good Fruit processes the sorrow and aimlessness felt after the death of a loved one, before becoming a life-affirming anthem.

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Exitmusic's Eerie New Video An Elegy To Lost Love

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Following the dissolution of their marriage and band, Exitmusic's Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church unleash a gorgeous if haunting storm of images and sound.

Review: Son Lux, 'Brighter Wounds'

Mike Katzif

Brighter Wounds achieves another breakthrough during a fraught and heartbreaking period. It's the band's most personal album yet.

Review: Julianna Barwick, 'Will'

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Barwick's songs are musical inkblot tests: The voices trickle in and out, but never quite materialize into lyrical coherency. So it's up to the listener to interpret them and ascribe personal meaning.

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Take A Sunset Cruise With Mac DeMarco

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With just a keyboard and a microphone, the singer takes to a rowboat in the lightly choppy waters off Far Rockaway, Queens, to perform his song "No Other Heart."

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Desaparecidos, Live In Concert

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Conor Oberst's music has rarely felt this jarring, raw and immediate. Watch his recently re-formed punk band put on an exhilarating, fist-pumping show at Brooklyn's Shea Stadium.