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Knocked Loose – “Deep In the Willow” b/w “Everything Is Quiet Now”
Consumed as a whole, these are two listens from one of heaviest’s finest who have turned nihilistic brutality into their playground.
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Sarah Mary Chadwick – “Shitty Town”
The lead single from the Melbourne songwriter’s forthcoming album, ‘Messages to God’, is masterful at that in Chadwick’s singular, brutalist form.
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Sweeping Promises – “You Shatter”
The post-punk duo’s “ode to being a hammer” is as if nothing can stand in the way of any tribulation when you’re moving like a force that hits hard upon impact.
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Restraining Order – “Misled”
The lead single from the WMass and CT-based hardcore band’s sophomore LP is a punk anthem for the fuck-up who talks off your ear and then leaves you on read.
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Fiddlehead – “Sullenboy”
The lead single from the Boston post-hardcore band’s third LP is them showing us where you go from pain’s lingering feelings.
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Shamir – “Oversized Sweater”
The first single from ‘Homo Anietatem’ is as lived in and welcoming as its name would suggest.
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Kareem Rahma’s Tiny Gun – “Entertainment”
Led by content comedian, Kareem Rahma, alongside members of YVETTE and Motion Studies, the trio are a natural connection in conceptualizing the epicenter of “cool” in its most absurdist terms.
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Lifeguard – “Alarm”
The Chicago rockers’ latest preview from their new EP, ‘Dressed In Trenches’, is the product of how great live music can be when young artists feel inspired to make something of their own from it.
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Deeper – “Build a Bridge”
The Chicago post-punks stare down nihilism and foil it with a mental escape route on the latest single off ‘Careful!’
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Ratboys – “It’s Alive!”
It’s the simple pleasures that do the most good for us on the proper lead single from the Chicago post-country band’s new album, ‘The Window’.
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L’Rain – “New Year’s UnResolution”
The new single from the Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist once more hears her evolving as a virtuoso of sonic therapy.
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Recommended Album: Vulture Feather – ‘Liminal Fields’
Following a near-death experience, former Wilderness guitarist Colin McCann reemerges from the ether with a new band that connects with naturalistic art-rock.