Black Map - Run Rabbit Run

| Keith
And we enter
A new dimension
Choose your weapons carefully
Distrust the masses
Distrust your partner
Kill your spirit with violent doubt

How about we mix it up with some mid-week rock, eh? Bay area band Black Map does prog rock well. Really well, let's go with them. I loved their debut album ...And We Explode and have been eagerly awaiting new stuff. Enter "Run Rabbit Run" their new track that dropped last week. It's got all the bits that make Black Map killer; solid vocals, driving guitars. Their new album In Droves will be out in March of next year.

RIYL: Chevelle, Dredg, Fair To Midland, Tides of Man, Far

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Slothrust - Rotten Pumpkin

| Keith
I just want you to love me
But I'm not sure you've got it in ya
You're boring into my body
You're boring me with your stories
I'm not listenin', listenin', listenin'

Slothrust, a hard-rocking trio out of Brooklyn, are breathing some life into that tired old grungy sound of the early 90's with "Rotten Pumpkin." It's punchy, fast and catchy and reminded me of one of my favorite 90's bands, Hammerbox. Their latest album "Everyone Else" brings more of the same and a lot of other cuts that will evoke the best from the edges of the 90's while not really feeling like a throwback.

RIYL: Cayetana, Hammerbox, PJ Harvey, Pile, Sonic Youth, Waxahatchee

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Miniature Tigers - Dreaming

| Kerri
These lonely California nights
Staring out at nothing
Without you there's no paradise
I'll see you when I close my eyes
Close my eyes (x2)
And I'll be... Dreaming

New Miniature Tigers, just released Friday! The second single from their upcoming album, I Dreamt I Was a Cowboy, out October 28. While researching what to chat up about these guys, I checked out their twitter feed. Not to get overtly political on TMIS but, I love that they took such a clear stand (and have followed it up, too)...

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