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New Music Highlights In Alternative Sounds

  • Portrayal of Guilt – “Total Black”

    Portrayal of Guilt – “Total Black”

    Only the Austin-based experimental grindcore trio can see into the darkness of nothing like they do here…

  • Touch Girl Apple Blossom – “I’m Lucky I Found You”

    Touch Girl Apple Blossom – “I’m Lucky I Found You”

    With the season’s passage, the punky Austin indie-pop’s lovelorn journeys are finally on the side of good fortune.

  • Olivia Rodrigo – “drop dead”

    Olivia Rodrigo – “drop dead”

    Unlike the dramatic builds of Rodrigo’s breakup lore, the climax always feels right there on the skin’s surface in the inverse direction on the lead single from ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’.

  • Madonna – “I Feel So Free”

    Madonna – “I Feel So Free”

    Madonna is *back* back and the dance floor isn’t dead until the Queen of Pop says so on the first glimpse into the future sequel to ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor’.

  • Kacey Musgraves – “Middle of Nowhere”

    Kacey Musgraves – “Middle of Nowhere”

    Kacey Musgraves finds her way back home on the opener and title track from ‘Middle of Nowhere’.

  • Kurt Vile – “Chance to Bleed”

    Kurt Vile – “Chance to Bleed”

    You apparently can’t dim Vile’s hometown fanboy spirit for the lo-fi DIY no matter how high life takes him on the cool and casual lead single off his new album, ‘Philadelphia’s been good to me’.

  • Recommended Album: Ratboys – ‘Singin’ to an Empty Chair’

    Recommended Album: Ratboys – ‘Singin’ to an Empty Chair’

    LP 6 from the country-rustic indie rockers sits with its refined thoughts without much distraction. allowing you to process deep feelings at your own cozy comfort.

  • Tracey Nelson – “Hercules”

    Tracey Nelson – “Hercules”

    Even with a shrug, the New York-based indie alt-country songwriter makes the weight of a heavy heart feel easy to carry on the latest single and title track from his debut album, ‘Hercules’.

  • TV Star – “The Package”

    TV Star – “The Package”

    The highlight from the Seattle psych-country band’s debut album, ‘Music For Heads’, leaves you with a sense of floating above any and all gravity trying to hold you down.

  • Kacey Musgraves – “Dry Spell”

    Kacey Musgraves – “Dry Spell”

    Musgraves doesn’t need much beyond an echo of twang and a few barnyard double entendres to get what she means here — especially if you’re not getting any either.

  • HOLY DOSE – “Fluorescents”

    HOLY DOSE – “Fluorescents”

    The highlight from the alternative hardcore band’s debut EP doesn’t let the best moments out of sight, yet loudly makes it known how tough it is to grapple with when they’re getting further away from you, too.

  • Buzz Sound: Knumears

    Buzz Sound: Knumears

    Burning behind their debut album, ‘Directions’, the future is alit for the Los Angeles skramz trio, even as everything else in this world turns to ash.

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