It’s rare that a place like MZ that hears literally hundreds of new songs by hundreds of new artists every month, encounters something this good, that it hadn’t known about before. But it’s really that good. Humbodlt Lagoon, for those of you too fickle, ADD or otherwise, to listen, is pulsing, breathing, stream of consciousness, mind-bending, intellectual, visceral and totally rocks.

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Once again, Tragic Josh sorts through the crap music so you don’t have to. Here are some positive nuggets with which he has returned.

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Every week, mystery shopper, former A&R dude and grizzly bear wrestler Tragic Josh is let out of his basement cell for a day to scour the Internets for the best music out there. We then distill this extract into a fine paste which we spread over the MusicZeitgeist.com canvas so that you can reap the benefits.

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