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Recommended Album: Joyce Manor – ‘I Used To Go To This Bar’
The Torrance pop-punk trio can’t quite escape the hands of time in the physical sense, but there’s no signs of aging in their sound on their seventh album.
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Teen Suicide – “Idiot”
It’s the resurrection Teen Suicide deserves, fully concentrated, from the experimental punk band’s new album — and first proper studio album — ‘Nude descending staircase headless’.
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Gollylagging – “Bronco”
The Bostonian underground rockers’ slow-focused emotiveness has a way of making it all come crashing down noisily.
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Knumears feat. Jeff Smith – “Fade Away”
A tense, furiously passionate tour de force inward that leaves all of its damage on the outside from the Los Angeles screamo band’s debut LP, ‘Directions’.
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Recommended Album: GUV – ‘Warmer Than Gold’
Ben Cook’s songwriting pen radiates breakbeat Brit-pop and acid rave rock influence naturally on his most fully realized album to date.
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Fcukers – “L.U.C.K.Y.”
Call it luck. Call it the real deal. Fcukers sound like they’re just getting started with their roll on the highlight off the electronic dance duo’s debut album, ‘Ö’.
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Avalon Emerson & the Charm – “Jupiter and Mars”
The highlight from the NYC stylistic polymath and her band’s new album, ‘Written Into Changes’, sweeps up a spell of synesthesia with an electric pulse for the star-crossed.
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Landowner – “Rival Males”
A well-studied combative interrogation on toxic masculinity from the Western Mass post-punk band’s new album, ‘Assumption’.
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Dream Fatigue – “Spun”
The latest from the Salem rockers’ new EP, ‘No Requiem’, shows just how dynamic in their heavy luster they can be when left to ruminate on patterns and symbols in the static.
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Recommended EP: Draag – ‘Miracle Drug’
With their latest EP, the colorfully beguiling Los Angeles experimental dream-pop band successfully attempt an out-of-body experience.