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Fiddlehead – “Baby I’ll Change”
With death again in view, the Boston post-hardcore band sits with their thoughts and lets silence hold space in their catharsis on the central epitaph off their new EP.
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Recommended Album: YHWH Nailgun – ‘Magazine’
The second album from the amorphous NYC experimental noise rockers is a super-condensed distortion on perception and time that could go on infinitely.
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Parts & Labor – “Seamripper”
Have Parts & Labor just discovered a way out of this hellscape? This one tears a new one into its space-time continuum’s fabric, for sure…
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Sad13 – “Watermelon Manicure”
The Speedy Ortiz frontwoman’s language may be written in its own script, and yet, it’s carved up and painted with enchantment on the early highlight off her new Sad13 mixtape, ‘1331’.
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Sweeping Promises – “Cocoon”
Change isn’t just inevitable, but an ultimatum that looks great, too, when worn on the artsy post-punk duo’s latest preview from ‘You Say I Romanticize’.
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Perennial – “What’s New On The Beat Scene”
The New England mod punk trio give the kids what they want by kicking up some chaos on the dance floor with the first single off their new album, ‘Modernism’.
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Recommended Album: Piebald – ‘Tales for the Rages’
The Boston emo-punk rockers’ ‘Rage’ remains righteous, as does their ability to pile-on the bodies to a sing-a-long in the pit with their first new album in 19 years.
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Restraining Order – “Used Love”
If you see Restraining Order coming your way while you’ve got a book in your hands, that’s your cue to book it in the opposite direction…
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Haywire – “The Henchmen”
That cute little gang of Haywire mascots brings the beatdown to a bad list of bullies in the latest music video from the Boston hardcore punks.
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16 Underground – “Glimpse Of You”
The latest glimpse into the Los Angeles experimental trip-hop’s new EP ‘Without a Trace’ is pure mood-boarding meant for the night.
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CEREMONY – “Death Destruction Mayhem”
The chaos reaped on the lead single from ‘Tell Me Your Dream’ is merely CEREMONY in their most natural environment.
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No Joy – “Big Life, Big Leaf”
A big burst of energy before venturing into the next unknown from the Montréal post-shoegaze artist’s new Fire-Toolz co-produced EP, where the end is celebrated intensely rather than mourned.