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Lifeguard – “It Will Get Worse”
Whether they like it or not, the lead single from the Chicago indie rockers’ debut album, ‘Ripped and Torn’, is about to blow the walls out of the trio’s small room sound.
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Graham Hunt – “East Side Screamer”
Just as enigmatic as a supernatural entity, the Wisconsin guitar-pop songwriter’s handiwork leaves you in disbelief, screaming expletives.
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Buzz Sound: Sharp Pins
With ‘Radio DDR’, Lifeguard’s Kai Slater is converging the timelines between golden age power-pop vinyl and today’s DIY indie rock cassettes.
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Recommended EP: BALMORA – ‘Prologue’ EP
This is just the start of the first chapter being written by the glorious Connecticut hardcore metal band…
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Recommended Album: JIVEBOMB – ‘ETHEREAL’
The Baltimore band’s phoenix ascent cracks a difficult-to-decode style that mediates both of hardcore’s current directional limbs on their debut full-length.
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Deerhoof – “Immigrant Songs”
We are all visitors in this land, and Deerhoof loudly remind us of that on the latest highlight from their 20th album, ‘Noble and Godlike In Ruin’.
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Model/Actriz – “Doves”
In withholding from a louder ecstasy, Model/Actriz derive their own nuance to that pleasure.
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Wishy – “Over and Over”
Not overthinking the process finds treasure in a simpler approach to alternative pop songwriting perfection on the latest from ‘Planet Popstar’.
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Dummy & GMO – “Unshaped Road (GMO’s Gummy Remix)”
Experimental art-pop trio GMO are given full-blown access to Dummy’s sound lab and further manipulate the ‘Free Energy’ highlight’s gravity.
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Recommended Album: SPELLLING – ‘Portrait of My Heart’
Chrystia Cabral’s outsider nature is her alternative rock star superpower that makes her latest shape-shift an even more inventive take on the genre than anyone else could attempt.
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Superheaven – “Stare At The Void”
The black hole sun has grown even larger in pulling in some of Superheaven’s most melodic gravity yet.
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Lost Film – “Pilot Light”
With their new single, the Western Mass dream-pop band furthers their brightness by setting their sights on the sun.