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Starcleaner Reunion – “Lay On Plastic Moment”
Blurring the moment in past reflection, the dreamy NYC rockers reveal how time is always a force of change with the final preview from ‘Umbrella’.
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Anxious – “Secret Weapon”
Even if the machine is wired all wrong these days, Anxious’ game is running on pure intention as they mature into alt-rock-riffed post-hardcore territory on their latest single.
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Gouge Away – “Wasp” (Wednesday Cover)
Rarely do covers sound like a song’s origin story, but this standout by the post-hardcore noisemakers from ‘Bleeds Deluxe’ breaks that mold.
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HAYWIRE – “SINCERELY YOURS”
The second heater from the Boston hardcore punk band’s new album ‘I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye’ doubles down on anthems to rage away the pain to.
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Liars – “Ice Pick, Kalamazoo”
Angus Andrew takes an axe to the ridiculousness of American bureaucracy on the lead single off the art-rockers’ 10th studio album, ‘A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans’.
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Recommended Album: The Drin – ‘I Lost My Way For Centuries’
The fifth album from the Cinci avant-punk collective is a double LP sonic exploration of pushing everything that was once known to a new mysterious limit.
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Spiral XP – “Blue Earth”
The chaotic view surrounding the Seattle loud pop-rockers is a thing of dream, with that howling of the mind being something you want to sink your head into on the title track off their new EP, ‘Blue Earth’.
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Dummy – “April Limousine” / “Alluvial Fan”
Through new age anxieties, Dummy are asking the right questions in whether broadening possibility in our world may somehow end up building new walls within it.
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Wishy – “Sensational”
The standout indie-pop rockers are really in the moment in approaching the many, many sides of the alternative spectrum on the latest from ‘Nature’s Wish’.