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12 Essential Electronic Music Artists For Rock Fans
Many music fans simply don’t know where to start with “electronic music”. With a daunting, ever-widening scope of sub-genres within sub-genres, it seems that plunging in would be similar to exploring...
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Rising Canadian Talent – Catherine MacLellan
Check out this stunning live performance of “Sparrows” courtesy of Canadian folk/acoustic artist Catherine MacLellan and MusicFog. Catherine’s voice is beautifully subtle and understated, for the sole...
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Progressive Metal Bandcamp Roundup – The Best of the Best
It’s Saturday, and you know what that means. I’m browsing the ever-high quality website Bandcamp.com specifically looking for the best of the best in progressive metal bands as I work. These bands will...
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The Best Music From Popular Video Games
Our latest I.M.P feature comes courtesy of Scott Taylor, who shares some of his choice cuts, the very best music from popular video games. Lately, I have been discovering great bands and great songs...
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Our Bandcamp Roundup Gets Psychedelic, Indie And Downright Strange
At Independent Music Promotions, we’re always on the lookout for the best in music with depth spanning all genres. You’d be surprised how difficult that task can be. There are millions of artists out...
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I.M.P’s Bandcamp Bands Roundup, More Psychedelic Classics
We’ve been having a lot of fun with our Bandcamp roundups for a few reasons. In my experience, Bandcamp has been the number one way to discover high quality new music, especially in genres with “the...
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Sonicbids Music Roundup – The Best Of February
I.M.P has recently launched a new Sonicbids opportunity for coverage on the blog, and we figured we’d go above and beyond by posting some of the early submissions that impressed us. We’re well aware...
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Puscifer “Donkey Punch The Night” CD Review
Puscifer (Maynard James Keenan, Jeff Friedl, Matt McJunkins, Mat Mitchell, Carina Round and Josh Eustis) are back with a new EP entitled “Donkey Punch The Night”, and while it’s always a good thing to...
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Buke and Gase’s “General Dome” Is One Of 2013′s Best Albums So Far
Brooklyn indie rock/progressive duo Buke and Gase have one of 2013′s best releases so far on their hands with the fascinating full-length “General Dome”. With prog rock, garage/noise, and...
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David Bowie’s “The Next Day” Is A Gut Wrenching, Beautiful Masterpiece
David Bowie’s new CD “The Next Day” is a gut wrenching, beautiful masterpiece. Recorded in secret over the past two years with producer Tony Visconti, the effort could have gone in just a few...
View ArticleDark Horses release debut album in North America
Brighton’s own melancholic collective Dark Horses will release their debut album Black Music in North America this week (4/2) via Last Gang. The new record, which came out in the UK last October,...
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Iggy And The Stooges Release Fun But Mixed Offering With “Ready To Die”
Iggy and the Stooges “Ready to Die” has to be one of the most anticipated rock releases of 2013, and the reuniting of Iggy Pop and guitarist James Williamson has been much talked about. The album is...
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Hot Blood of Yeah Yeah Yeahs is all drained on “Mosquito”
The 3D Toy Story-from-hell cover art for Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new album, Mosquito, shows a crying nude baby getting pinged by the blood-sucking insect. It’s jarring, uncomfortable and makes one feel itchy...
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Let Off Orbit take you for a quick ride with “City Of Wonders”
Off Orbit may be from Miami, Florida, but their sound comes straight from the Texas desert expanse where plenty of psych-blues bands have called home. Their three-song debut EP, City Of Wonders, is a...
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Juno Reactor’s “The Golden Sun Of The Great East” Is A Genre-Transcending...
Juno Reactor has been a respected institution in music for over 20 years now. Started as an art project with the sole intention of creating good art that was not commercially motivated, Ben Watkins...
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The cranks and gears of Piqued Jacks’“Just A Machine”
Just A Machine, the newest EP from Piqued Jacks, opens with the quick crack of a distorted egg. What then dribbles out is the yolk of six fluctuating industrial rock songs that leave the listener...
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Deerhunter’s new, “Monomania,” is a square fitting into circle speakers
Warning: Monomania by Deerhunter is not the album to listen to in the wake of a ratty hangover. It’s abrasive, snot-nosed, manic-depressive rock and as noisy as a traffic jam. There are few moments of...
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Dillinger Escape Plan’s “One Of Us Is The Killer” Lights A Fire Of Inspiration
Dillinger Escape Plan are back with the newly released “One Of Us Is The Killer”, out now via Sumerian Records. They’re a band that continually evolve, and to many, their last outing “Option Paralysis”...
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Montana Maxx: Detroit’s Dirtworker
On “City Of Gods,” off the mixtape, KingMi, from Montana Maxx (or Mt. Maxx), the Detroit rapper explains, “I’m from a city where it’s god this and god that / but when we hungry it’s sell this or rob...
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Queens Of The Stone Age get hard and soft on rock and roll classic
God, it feels good when that first strike of sludge guitar hits on Queens Of The Stone Age’s new album, …Like Clockwork. First track, “Keep Your Eyes Peeled,” travels at a lowly lurk, like carefully...
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