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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Listening to Shudder To Think is a lot like doing trigonometry – you know it all makes sense somehow, but damned if you can figure it out. Full of obtuse angles but wrought with plenty of accessible melodic avenues, their music is one of the more love-it-or-hate-it propositions to have ever wound up on a major label.

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Check out this exclusive podcast interview with elusive MusicZeitgeist.com writer Truffle Jones during his exhaustive Week of Shows.

They cover such an exhaustive range of topics and bands from how indies should design their merch to why My Bloody Valentine still sounds more modern than ever, the hottest new indie bands you’ve never read or heard about anywhere (yet), mr. Gnome, Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, Dandy Warhols, the downtown LA Weekly Detour festival featuring Mars Volta, the new Kings of Leon album and what it will take for MGMT to be truly ready for the big time.  There’s too much to list – you’ll just have to hear this one hour action packed special for yourself.

You can also hear it/subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

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