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Robber Robber – “Suspicious Minds” (Elvis Presley Cover)
Get caught in a trap of the rising Burlington indie rockers’ noisy guitar-pop distortion of the King’s 1969 classic.
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The Best Hardcore & Metal Scene Albums of 2025
The reactionary effects of a scene hardening its exteriors is really taking effect, but there’s still plenty of room in the pit for thinking person’s emo, impassioned post-hardcore, and those teetering fine lines with the Best Hardcore & Metal Scene Albums of 2025.
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Aramis – ‘9’
The Enumclaw frontman’s new bedroom-pop solo album hits close to the heart and has that quiet, cozy long, lonely December listen written all over it.
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MX LONELY – “Shape Of An Angel”
The Brooklyn rockers have euphoria within their grasp — or is it just an imitation of it? — on the latest single off their debut album, ‘All Monsters’.
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The Best Dream-Pop & Shoegaze Albums of 2025
From its foundational layers of distortion and dream-weaving resurfaced by generation’s past and present, the modern day Julia’s War contingent getting their laurels, to the experimentalists pushing its sound beyond tomorrow, these are the Best Dream-Pop & Shoegaze Albums of 2025.
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Gouge Away – ‘Live at BBC’
The Floridian-cursed post-hardcore rockers grabs you by the clavicle and rips you their way back into the moment ahead of their big 2026 with a new live EP recorded at BBC.
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Dry Cleaning – “Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit”
Florence Shaw is an architect in the art of reigning in a stream of conscious, which makes the latest preview from ‘Secret Love’ all the more impressive when you consider its spiral of intrusive thoughts.
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Pelican feat. Geoff Rickly – “Cascading Crescent”
Joined by Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly, the ‘Flickering Resonance’ centerpiece gets politically firebombed for the post-metal band’s new EP, ‘Ascending’.
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Nothing – “purple strings”
The Philly outsider shoegaze purveyors ponder what version of reality of ourselves will be the true one we remember in the end on the latest preview from ‘a short history of decay’.
