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The spring of 1995 was a crowded season in indie-rock history. Pavement dropped their polarizing third album, the willfully messy and frequently brilliant Wowee Zowee. Yo La Tengo continued their hit streak of low-key masterworks with Eletr-O-Pura. Illinois fuzz-rock quartet Hum hit hard with Youʼd Prefer An Astronaut, and Teenage Fanclub produced one of their finest jangle-pop efforts, Grand Prix. Wilco, Elastica, and Apples In Stereo put out well-regarded debuts. And Red House Painters hit a new high-water mark with Ocean Beach. But even in an era when classic indie records seemed to come out every week, there was nothing quite like Alien Lanes, the eighth full-length LP by a band from Dayton, Ohio called Guided By Voices. Released on April 4, 1995, Alien Lanes arrived with baked-in mythology. It had been supposedly recorded for just $10 in various concrete basements around Dayton by a group of blue-collar guys in their mid-30s. Uproxx dug into the history of this classic and produced this great oral history.

-- Steven Hyden, Uproxx Cultural Critic and author of This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" And The Beginning Of The 21st Century OPENING TRACKS

RINA SAWAYAMA

This budding indie-pop star is among the buzziest acts to emerge this year, with an ear-catching single called “STFU” that’s like Carly Rae Jepsen if she spent years obsessing over Korn’s Follow The Leader. That pan-genre approach ultimately informs Sawayama — who was born in Japan and raised in London — and her aesthetic.

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As we’ve covered here at Indie Like so many indie acts, Destroyer Mixtape, Gorillaz have been was on the road — promoting his putting out a series of singles great 2020 LP Have We Met — during quarantine called Song when coronavirus shut down the Machine. The latest comes with a music industry. The creepiness of sad epitaph: “How Far?” features a world retreating from itself is Skepta and the great Afrobeat vividly captured in the video for drummer Tony Allen, a legend “Foolssong,” which was filmed known for working with Fela Kuti while the band was still on the who died last week. road.

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DEEP CUTS SUNWATCHERS TULUUM SHIMMERING

This thrilling jammy noise-punk- This U.K. outfit makes music that’s jazz band specializes in pushing difficult to describe — try to sonic recklessness to the brink of imagine a long droning sound total collapse without ever quite becoming anthropomorphized and falling apart. It’s music that can be giving your brain a nice, deep a little frightening as it leaps into massage. That’s the feeling we get chaotic netherworlds, though from Tuluum Shimmering’s recent ultimately the feeling that comes run of radical reinventions of from their new Oh Yeah? EP is classic songs by groups like the pure triumphant pleasure. Grateful Dead and the Byrds.

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VINYL OF THE WEEK

JONI MITCHELL — 'LOVE HAS MANY FACES' BOXED SET Curated from more than 40 years of recordings, this set is limited to 5,000 individually numbered copies. The music collection spans 53 songs on eight 180-gram LPs, four of which feature etchings of Mitchell’s artwork, each one signifying the end of an act in the ballet. The vinyl is housed in a hard-bound deluxe folio package which includes a book containing 53 lyrical poems, six paintings, and an autobiographical text illuminating Mitchell's recording process.

Through 5/8, Indie Mixtape subscribers can get 10% off this can't-miss set by entering the code JONI10 checkout.

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THROWBACK

'SHOW YOUR BONES' by YEAH YEAH YEAHS Their debut Fever To Tell gets more attention, but Yeah Yeah Yeahs showed they weren’t merely one-hit wonders with their flinty, experimental second effort, which features excellent songs like “Gold Lion.”

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LINER NOTES

Bob Dylan - "Shelter From The Storm" (Multi- Artist Remote Cover)

The label Canvasback have tapped their artists to remotely record a cover version of Bob Dylan's "Shelter From The Storm" to raise funds for Musicares. Check it out here.

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