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XIU XIU

BY JAMIE ROBASH

The best thing a band can do to fuck up its career path is to diverge from the sound that made them who they are. The Beatles did it. So did Bob Dylan. Yet in those cases the gambit paid off, as the moves brought in more new fans than they alienated. San Jose experimental rock quartet Xiu Xiu have never had either of the aforementioned giants’ following and even if they did, it would probably only serve as a catalyst to further try to alienate them. Xiu Xiu makes the music they want to make and if you like it, cool. If not, that’s cool too, a sentiment clearly evidenced by their latest release Plays the Music of Twin Peaks.

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WHY?

BY LISA MROCK

Why? may be an acquired taste for some. (For the longest time, the only thing I knew of them was from a friend who described them as “really weird.”) However, their fanbase is loyal and diehard, and it’s been that way for over a decade. They’re hip hop, they’re folk, they’re rock, and their fresh track “Proactive Evolution” off new album Moh Lhean is a wave of looking back and reflecting on the negative…but then looking forward and attempting to find the positivity that lies ahead. Don’t ask why. The answer is obvious.

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WEEN

By Mike Milazzo

September 2001 is a time that many Americans will never forget. Although for Ween, the date marks what was at the time the 10th anniversary of their legendary album GodWeenSatan. Amidst the utter despair and loss the country felt in the wake of the September 11 attacks, Deaner and Gener managed to perform a show just three days later, playing a set full of songs that had rarely been performed in 10+ years. The entire show was recorded to tape, sitting in a dark archive somewhere for 15 odd years until the brothers Ween mercifully decided to bless us with its glorious release this year. Coupled with news of their reunion and a tour to go with it, it’s about the best memory you’re bound to have of 2016.

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VINCE STAPLES

BY WILLIAM LENNON

Does Vince Staples remind anyone else of Kurt Cobain sometimes? Like the flannel-clad iconoclast of yesteryear, Staples is famously outspoken and harbors deep disdain for fame and the gilded culture that comes with it. Not even seeming to feel obliged to pay dues to the rap game, Staples is using the medium with “using” being the key word. He’s not so in love with the idea of rap that he can’t bulldoze the most decrepit bits to make room for something original. And given how good he is at transmitting angst to verse, it doesn’t seem strange that one of the greatest rappers alive rubs elbows with James Blake and Bon Iver while admitting he’s a recovering Panic! at the Disco fan. When you go all in on every track like Staples, you don’t really have to answer for shit like that.

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