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Montreal artist Eve Thomas and photographer Richmond Lam have teamed up to transform 17 female models into modern versions of 90's male heartthrobs for their Poster Boys portrait series and the result is magical... disturbing... hilarious... angst-inducing. It's women pretending to be boys playing at being men for little girls.

Nashville's Diarrhea Planet have released a new song. If you like the band, you're going to like the song. It's one of those face melting guitar numbers the band has become known for, and it doesn't waste any of your time as it foregoes an instrumental guitar solo break to just layer it in over vocals. That's good guitar solo value!

It's taken M83 almost three years to successfully steal Daft Punk's idea of making an analog-sounding, disco-tinged, back-to-basics dance album.

It's for the best, because Junk might be better, front-to-back, than Random Access Memories.

While Daft Punk's retro-dance approach brought on Chic's Nile Rodgers, and evoked images of '70s disco, Junk transports listeners to clubs full of green-and-purple neon lights, pink-and-orange sunsets framed by waving palm trees, and high-ceilinged bathrooms with cocaine-dusted mirrors strewn near the sink.

Most bands have that immediate touchstone, the one big influence that hangs over all their songs and jump out at the listener as a way to contextualize the group within music’s ever-expanding genre landscape. Calgary’s Ultrviolence is no exception. From the moment their new single, “Better Learn How To Swim,” begins we are confronted with some very deliberate genre tropes. There’s lead singer Nate Jespersen’s familiar baritone, an arpeggiated guitar line that is perfectly enveloped in the reverb drenched amber of early 80s post punk and that head shaking 4/4 kick drum pattern.