Category: Album Reviews
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Recommended EP: Kareem Rahma & Tiny Gun – ‘Please Respond’
On their second EP, the Brooklyn post-punk band led by Kareem Rahma not-so-quietly become one their scene’s most reliably great rock bands while being completely unconcerned with their premise of succeeding at the cool game.
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Recommended Album: Madonna -‘CONFESSIONS II’
The 15th album from the Queen of Pop is the freshest she has sounded in 20 years without losing sight on how her art should make you live your life in the now — or forgetting the past that got you there.
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Recommended Album: Greg Mendez – ‘Beauty Land’
With his sophomore effort, the melancholic Philly indie rock songwriter makes a complex set of emotions sound simply beautiful in the darkest hours of the night.
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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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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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Recommended Album: Olivia Rodrigo – ‘you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love’
The pop songwriter grows beyond her angsty emo phase and absorbs a couple of decades worth of alternative history influence in her latest ex-perience.
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Recommended Album: Stuck – ‘Optimizer’
On their sophomore LP, the Chicago post-punk trio add some healthy, noise rock-hard muscle mass to their frame to contend with the decline in humanity, and come out as the best version of themselves in spite of it all.
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Recommended Album: Converge – ‘Hum of Hurt’
With their second album of 2026, the Boston metalcore heroes turn all of the pain of existence into a noisy, raw superpower.
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Recommended Album: Aldous Harding – ‘Train on the Island’
An artist who resembles no other, the New Zealand avant songwriter’s fifth album again chameleons her sound into something that can simply be defined as very Aldousian.
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Recommended Album: Friko – ‘Something Worth Waiting For’
On their sophomore effort, the Chicago indie rockers do their most to honor youth’s passing with the kind of sincere grandeur that at one point in time defined the sounds of generational optimism.