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Converge – “Hum of Hurt”
The culmination of the pain of the world audibly blisters into view for those who’ve never experienced it themselves on the title track off the Boston metalcore luminaries’ second album of 2026.
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BALMORA ft. Brie Percy – “Ophelia”
The dramatic Connecticut metalcore band are poets beneath that heavy armor on the lead single off their anticipated debut LP, ‘These Graven Halls’.
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listen to these: Avalon Emerson & The Charm, Charli XCX, Hilary Duff & Robyn
Recommended highlights from across the alternative pop spectrum with the latest albums by Avalon Emerson & The Charm, Charli XCX, Hilary Duff, and Robyn.
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Friko – “Still Around”
With the latest preview from ‘Something Worth Waiting For’, the Chicago indie rockers have got that desire when they need it the most.
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Dry Cleaning – “Sliced by a Fingernail”
The South London post-punks’ latest single is a continuation in their impressionist violence against the outside world, enriching fertile existentialism with prickly guitar dynamics.
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Recommended EP: Lifeguard – “Ultra Violence” / “Appetite”
A wild, weird, unassumingly cool experiment with no rules or concrete expectations, this maxi single from the Chicago noisy punk firestarters leaves you piqued for whatever comes next.
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Robber Robber – “New Year’s Eve”
With the final preview from ‘Two Wheels Move The Soul’, the uncanny Burlington rockers are grinding hard just to get by.
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Recommended Album: Suitor – ‘Saw You Out with the Weeds’
On their sophomore LP, the Cleveland post-punks not only expand the body count in the room, but the capacity within their sound to coexist as a shimmering prism as well one that smears glitter across the dark.
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Secret World – “It Hurts”
On their latest single, the Sydney melodic hardcore band is just doing their best to better themselves, even if the world around them isn’t.
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Carla dal Forno – “Going Out”
What you thought was the end is promised to be just the beginning in the dreamy Australian songwriter’s first spell off her new album, ‘Confession’.