Category: New Music
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Sharp Pins – “How Can I Explain What She Does To Me?”
The answer to Sharp Pins’ pining question is all in the sound on this kaleidoscopically swooning preview from his new EP ‘Electric My Icebox’.
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NAILS – “Fear Based Life”
There is nothing to fear but NAILS itself on the return single from the seminal Oxnard heavy hardcore band.
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Lily Konigsberg – “Free Byrd”
If you love it, set it so, but in Lily Konigsberg’s case, she’s at her best she just hers and hers alone on her new single.
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untitled (halo) – “easy rider”
The Los Angeles neo-shoegazers’ adoration to the classic alternative isn’t imitation — it’s homage while breaking through to the future.
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Anxious – “Secret Weapon”
Even if the machine is wired all wrong these days, Anxious’ game is running on pure intention as they mature into alt-rock-riffed post-hardcore territory on their latest single.
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Gouge Away – “Wasp” (Wednesday Cover)
Rarely do covers sound like a song’s origin story, but this standout by the post-hardcore noisemakers from ‘Bleeds Deluxe’ breaks that mold.
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Liars – “Ice Pick, Kalamazoo”
Angus Andrew takes an axe to the ridiculousness of American bureaucracy on the lead single off the art-rockers’ 10th studio album, ‘A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans’.
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Spiral XP – “Blue Earth”
The chaotic view surrounding the Seattle loud pop-rockers is a thing of dream, with that howling of the mind being something you want to sink your head into on the title track off their new EP, ‘Blue Earth’.
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Dummy – “April Limousine” / “Alluvial Fan”
Through new age anxieties, Dummy are asking the right questions in whether broadening possibility in our world may somehow end up building new walls within it.