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Recommended Album: Algernon Cadwallader – ‘Trying Not to Have a Thought’
Thriving in their return, the emotive math rockers have working through this daily dread of being alive thing figured out.
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Haywire – “Always By My Side”
Hardcore’s hardcore working band of 2025 takes a beat to acknowledge those who’ve supported them while plunging you straight into the heart of the Boston hardcore community.
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Interview: Cyrus Vandenberghe of Welcome Strawberry On His Band’s New Album ‘desperate flower’
The shoegazing perfume genius discusses how the power of scent and trusting your gut that led to the novel nature behind the Oakland band’s great new album, ‘desperate flower’.
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Recommended Album: AKAI SOLO – ‘No Control, No Glory’
This is the clutter of all that over-wrought chaos floating through the Brooklyn underground rapper’s head, as close as can be to clarified.
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Recommended Album: Geese – ‘Getting Killed’
On buzz skepticism, hearing new music outside of the Internet vacuum, and practicing patience with getting Geese-pilled by the raw, idiosyncratic energy of ‘Getting Killed’.
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Geese – “Cobra”
Geese not only answers their own question in tempting the dance, but snake charms you into indulging the past through the eyes of a new set of shaggy-haired storytellers.
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Geese – “Trinidad”
The ‘Getting Killed’ highlight just keeps ticking in your head well past the point of this whole damn press hype explosion.
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Recommended Album: DRAIN – ‘…IS YOUR FRIEND’
Another electric performance in modern hardcore thrash from the Santa Cruz trio is what happens when all of the right elements between its people parts come to together and have each others backs.
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No Pressure – “Good Enough” / “Wearing Thin”
If dealing with head-and-heart wreckage sounds like the blast of speed punk No Pressure make it out to be, it’s going to be a good new year either way.
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Recommended EP: SPEED – ‘ALL MY ANGELS’
SPEED confront the catch-22 of a hard road to success by doing what they’ve willed as their super strength: honoring their community through really fucking fast and heavy music.