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Icelandic alt rock outfit Of Monsters and Men recently unleashed their new single “Alligator”. The world has been waiting for a rock opus like this. It will give anyone the energy due to its heavy baseline riff. This new radical tune will give you goosebumps through the following week. “Shake it out / It’s just what I’m feeling,” roars lead vocalist and writer Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, “And now I take control / I’m fever dreaming.” This is not the “Little Talks” Of Monsters and Men, but a completely vibrant new sound that gives rock its glimmer it has been missing for a while.…

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When The National released their seventh studio album, Sleep Well Beast, in September 2017, the band’s reputation and hype was through the roof. The National is a five piece-rock band who originally formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1999. While their sound has not changed drastically through the years, their eighth album finds them in a stalled musical moment. The National’s soft rock sound becomes even softer on this latest effort. Beast found a few peaks, which included “The System Only Dreams In Darkness,” the band’s most aggressive track to date. No aggressive tracks appear on I Am Easy To Find,…

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Pop singer Absofacto, Jonathan Visger, opened up for Two Feet Friday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The singer has many EPs under his belt already but played his most recent material off his latest project, Thousand Peaces. His songs remind you of a breeze caught over the Pacific somewhere. Besides playing original tunes, he also covered Arctic Monkeys “Crawling Back To You”, which felt like a legit slow acid trip. His back up band, which included two guitarists and drummer made for one entertaining and brave set, which included weird yoga dance poses from Visger himself. Brave indeed. Talk…

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