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Club Night – “Palace”
The return of the Oakland noise-pop band takes on the plight to fight another mundane day on the first listen off their long-awaited sophomore effort, ‘Joy Coming Down’.
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fib – “Mutuals”
Dousing even the sweetest substance on fib will just make the music react all the more psychedelically in the lead single off the Philly experimental rockers’ debut album, ‘Heavy Lifting’.
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Recommended EP: Glixen – ‘quiet pleasures’
The second EP from the fast-rising Phoenix shoegaze band feels like an early taste of their wider screen ambitions coming together strongly.
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Wishy – “Fly”
There’s that whole saying about flying too close to the sun, but it doesn’t seem to apply to Wishy on the latest single off their new EP, ‘Planet Popstar’.
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Recommended Album: Anxious – ‘Bambi’
A big swing from the Connecticut melodic punk band on their sophomore effort results in an instant scene classic that masters the art of adulting.
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Superheaven – “Cruel Times”
The forecast may be bleak, but with friends in the sky like Superheaven, it’s at least keeping it from falling on the lead single off the grunge-core band’s first new album in a decade.
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terraplana feat. Winter – “hear a whisper”
From the same place, terraplana and Winter have found a kindred way to haunt you from the beyond on the latest from Brazilian dream-pop rockers’ new album, ‘natural’.
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Buzz Sound: Church Tongue
The Indianapolis metalcore quintet unleash the kind of love that can wreck your life on their breakthrough EP, ‘You’ll Know It Was Me’.
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JIVEBOMB – “ESTRELA”
Jivebomb rip through old skin and are of the sky now on the latest preview off their debut album, ‘ETHEREAL’.
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Scowl – “B.A.B.E.”
As the Santa Cruz alternative hardcore band suffers for the touring artist lifestyle, you can’t help but selfishly like it most when they’re brought to the brink.
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Star 99 – “Pushing Daisies”
A fuzz-wheeling communication breakdown is living all over the San Jose indie punks on the latest off their new album, ‘gaman’.
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Recommended Album: Horsegirl – ‘Phonetics On and On’
The radical sophomore effort from the Chicago indie rock trio renders a wilder joy by eliminating much of the noise and instead embracing space.