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Recommended Album: Shellac – ‘To All Trains’
The seminal Chicago noiseniks’ conclusive thought could not have been written as a better epitaph if this was the way the universe decided to have its last laugh with you.
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The Jesus Lizard – “Hide & Seek”
The noise rock luminaries return to tempt fate wickedly on their first new music in 26 years.
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Recommended Album: One Step Closer – ‘All You Embrace’
Through punctuated emotional intensity, the Wilkes-Barre melodic hardcore band embraces the hereafter of a quarter-life crisis in anthem.
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Stand Still feat. Pain of Truth – “We Know the Score”
The glory of all things hardcore community, introspection, and then some as an affirming crew anthem off the Long Island melodic hardcore band’s debut album, ‘Steps Ascending’.
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Recommended Album: Charli XCX – ‘BRAT’
A new bench mark in what pop culture should strive for in exceeding on substance and personal fodder in the same sweaty, out-of-breath club heartbeat.
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Jamie xx – “Treat Each Other Right”
The lead single off the London producer’s long-awaited sophomore album, ‘In Waves’, connects the dots between the past and present moment with the future form.
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Brijean – “Euphoric Avenue”
The experimental psychedelic dance-pop duo challenge us to alter our perspectives of what euphoria feels and sounds like with the latest preview from ‘Macro’.
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Eli Minus – “COMBAT”
Even through peaceful, liminal spaces, the Colombian producer’s music sets new courses of flight that fight to escape and exist under their own rule.
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Channel Tres – “Cactus Water”
A horny, sweaty thirst metaphor to satiate you in the club from the Compton rap-house artist’s debut LP, ‘Head Rush’.
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SPEED – “THE FIRST TEST”
SPEED’s words match their action, and no one else is doing it like they want to on the latest preview off the Sydney hardcore band’s debut album, ‘ONLY ONE MODE’.
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Balance and Composure – “sorrow machine”
The post-hardcore band continues to exist in their own cracked skyline with big, smoldering meteorite rocks sailing through the earth’s atmosphere on the highlight single off their return album, ‘with you in spirit’.
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Vince Staples feat. Kilo Kish – “Little Homies”
Staples goes hard and remains a stone cold thriller with this highlight from ‘Dark Times’.