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Gollylagging – “Jackknife”
Good luck, but also, good riddance, as the Bostonian underground rockers offer up their well wishes with gentle devastations on their new single.
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Recommended Album: American Football – ‘American Football’
For an album so centered on inner darkness, the indie emo rockers capture the beauty of it all with sparkling awe and grandeur.
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Oakwood – “A Tangled Mess”
An early highlight from the emotive Texan melodic hardcore trio’s comeback album, ‘Blurred Away’, visibly attempts to figure a way out of deepening darkness with mathematical calculation.
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Cosmic Joke – “Referee” / “Agnostic (One Size Fits All)”
Newly signed to Revelation Records, the Los Angeles hardcore skate punks smash through gatekeeping and refute conformity on their two new singles.
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Quicksand – “Crystallize”
The seminal NYC post-hardcore rockers have done the inner work to take their sound to the next level on the latest highlight off their new album, ‘Bring On The Psychics’.
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Olivia Rodrigo – “the cure”
With the latest single from ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’, Rodrigo’s recent (red) string of ’90s alternative reverence ties itself to her theatrical pop melancholia before unraveling into a colorful symphonic explosion that exists only in her own veins.
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Recommended Album: Carla dal Forno – ‘Confession’
Alongside the nighttime, we become the keepers of the Australian experimental pop songwriter’s secrets on her nocturnally radiant fifth LP.
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Charli XCX – “SS26”
This season’s hottest look is pure nihilism and Charli XCX is showing everyone how to wear it best on her latest rock-adjacent single.
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Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter – “Bring Your Love”
Madonna and Sabrina’s convergence on the same timeline of the dance floor makes their bold defenses sound all the more inviting to join them.
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Channel Tres – “Pop Pop”
For those holding wedding season invites, you’ll want to keep the latest from the Compton house-rap connoisseur close-by to wash down the bland taste of any Bruno Mars you might encounter out there on the dance floor, especially in the after hours…
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Kareem Rahma & Tiny Gun – “That’s So Boring”
The latest single from the Brooklyn post-punk provocateurs is like the boy version of “Rock Music”, except the try-hards in this case really wish they could as cool.
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They Are Gutting A Body of Water feat. Horse Jumper of Love – “charter spec”
Turbulent drifts meet melancholic drifts as the team-up single between the noise-gauzed peers reflects on each artists’ strengths and blurs minutes into seconds.