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Gollylagging – “Comet”
With the lead single off their debut album, ‘Real Life’, the Boston underground rockers reckon with everything falling down by containing it in a wonderfully noisy and nearly borderless form of power-pop.
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HAYWIRE – “INTERSTATE LOVE AFFAIR”
The Boston hardcore-punk band’s testament of self-faith resonates and takes you on a ride to get away from it all with the lead single off their Roadrunner debut, ‘I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye’.
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Buzz Sound: 16 Underground
Listening to the second EP from the Los Angeles experimental trip-hop band is like an out of body experience of existing in two states of mind at once.
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Dummy – “Full Spectrum Dominance”
Backed by a remarkably pure substance of their own, the Los Angeles experimental noise pop band rejects empty vessels of art on the lead from their new album, ‘do you love the color of the sky?’
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Recommended Album: Koyo – ‘Barely Here’
A bottomless supply of ascendant chorus anthems and big riffed melodies within their torch-bearing of the Long Island sound in spite of bottoming out ensures that Koyo’s second LP leaves a permanent mark.
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Anxious – “Don’t Move”
The barriers of the Anxious attachment style are really beginning to show, even when momentum keeps tilting fast forward in the emotive melodic hardcore band’s favor.
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The Van Pelt – “Kris Is Riding Horses In Ojai”
Welcome to the dimension-collapsed world as experienced through the cult beloved indie-emo rockers’ eyes in the lead single off their new album, ‘Remain Obscure’.
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Dinosaur Jr. – “Blowin’ Up”
In Lou Barlow’s hands, words land like bombs with some of the best-sounding guitar rock ever created on our timeline going off with it.
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Recommended Album: CEREMONY – ‘Tell Me Your Dream’
In every direction of progress — be it the political, personal, or creative — CEREMONY don’t stop moving forward, and the Cali punk band’s 7th LP lives that out lucidly.
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Tricky FM – “Gridlock”
With its brash, breathy ultra-hype entry, Hana Freed sets off her new album, ‘Twin Star Fantasy’, with a burst of confidence in both sound and mind.
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Boy Harsher – “Hard Beat”
The dark dance duo sound intent on making something real beyond the codependence of shadow play with the latest offering from their new album, ‘GET MEAN’.
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Recommended Album: Charli XCX – ‘Music, Fashion, Film’
Charli’s latest art work pops in this moment, unburdening herself of legacy and opts to celebrate the freedom in allowing herself to come down from the high through new formations of rock music.