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Hotline TNT – “If We Keep Hanging Out”
The first preview from the NY noise-pop band’s new promo tape peels back some mystery and reveals a power-pop proficiency that hits every bit as hard, especially when compounded by heavy emo wavelengths.
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Stuck – “The Punisher”
An exercise in applying the tension of our everyday American life to instrument and soundboard from the Chicago post-punk band’s new album, ‘Freak Frequency’.
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Recommended Album: Navy Blue – ‘Ways of Knowing‘
Bigger things to come feel like they’re a natural fit for the Brooklyn rapper’s level up from the underground and first album for Def Jam.
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Bruiser and Bicycle – “Superdealer”
A sensory adventure that takes hold of the psyche and transcends the physical spaces from the Albany freak folk-pop band’s new album, ‘Holy Red Wagon’.
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ISOLA – “Too Soon”
The microhouse artist and former Eddi Front vocalist receives a sign from the universe on the first single from the former Eddi Front vocalist’s debut full-length.
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Recommended Album: The Van Pelt – ‘Artisans & Merchants’
The seminal emo-indie rocker’s first new album in 26 years is a road map for any young band willing to listen.
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Jxylen – “DON’T WAIT”
Staring down self-betterment, that higher purpose is elevating the young Massachusetts’ rapper’s game.
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Moor Mother feat. Kyle Kidd, Keir Neuringer & Aquiles Navarro – “WE GOT THE JAZZ”
A new track from the forthcoming deluxe edition of last year’s standout, ‘Jazz Codes’, is a message of self-recognition when others don’t yet see it.
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Mega Bog feat. Westerman – “Love Is”
The second single from Mega Bog’s sixth full-length effort, ‘End of Everything’, is an invitational to a power greater, but at the same time, can only come from the self.
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Recommended Album: Fever Ray – ‘Radical Romantics’
The strobing frequencies and experimental pop magic Karin Dreijer sings through on her latest standout from Fever Ray are merely the medium in which we realize that same energy exists within us, too.
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Friko – “Chrimson to Chrome”
The best days go by in a blink of an eye on the latest single from the young Chicago indie rock trio.
