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New Music Highlights In Alternative Sounds

  • Knumears feat. Jeff Smith – “Fade Away”

    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’.

  • Recommended Album: GUV – ‘Warmer Than Gold’

    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.

  • Fcukers – “L.U.C.K.Y.”

    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’.

  • Avalon Emerson & the Charm – “Jupiter and Mars”

    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.

  • Landowner – “Rival Males”

    Landowner – “Rival Males”

    A well-studied combative interrogation on toxic masculinity from the Western Mass post-punk band’s new album, ‘Assumption’.

  • Dream Fatigue – “Spun”

    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.

  • Recommended EP: Draag – ‘Miracle Drug’

    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.

  • Makthaverskan – “Louie”

    Makthaverskan – “Louie”

    If this is what Makthaverskan sounds like when they’ve allowed themselves to become compressed, it only reveals more sparkle within.

  • Mitski – “Where’s My Phone?”

    Mitski – “Where’s My Phone?”

    Mitski sounds free even in the renewed fright of being unshackled from her screen on the lead single from ‘Nothing’s About to Happen to Me’.

  • Buzz Sound: Holder

    Buzz Sound: Holder

    With their new EP, ‘Ruin The Best of Me’, the Western Massachusetts hardcore band profess a decades-deep knowledge of screamo history which they turn into maximalist devotionals.

  • Dry Socket – “Rigged Survival”

    Dry Socket – “Rigged Survival”

    A good reminder that you just don’t fuck with someone who has nothing left to lose from the Portland hardcore punks’ new album, ‘Self Defense Techniques’.

  • COMMITMENT – “DOG POUND”

    COMMITMENT – “DOG POUND”

    Righteously pissed at the world, the Philly hardcore pseudo supergroup are making man their bitch on the lead single off their debut album, ‘Fear Of’.

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