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Recommended EP: dazy – ‘Bad Penny’
In dazy we trust, and good thing he does, too, because the punk-up power-pop songwriter is on a nonstop roll with his latest EP.
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Vulture Feather – “Pleasant Obstacle”
The lead single from the California art-punk trio’s new EP, ‘Craving and Aversion’, feels like an exercise in carving out joy in the mountainous face of modern day heaviness.
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Recommended Album: Militarie Gun – ‘God Save The Gun’
The second album from the alternative hardcore band is what rock music sounds like when the higher power of self-belief has you going for broke since you’ve nothing left to lose.
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GUV – “Let Your Hands Go”
Yesteryear’s cool of Madchester, Brit-pop, and Baggy worship just comes naturally to GUV on the lead single from his new album, ‘WARMER THAN GOLD’.
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This Is Lorelei – “Name the Band”
In which Nate Amos revisits how he can easily mess you up with just a simplistic, yet singular spin on pop music.
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Recommended Album: They Are Gutting A Body of Water – ‘LOTTO’
On their biggest-sounding album yet, the experimental shoegaze futurists sound at home on the bigger stage (still positioned in the center of the room, of course) with their own respective fingerprints crushing heavy alternative rock under their own impression.
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Nothing – “cannibal world”
Perhaps infinite emptiness brings with it freedom, and the new age shoegaze scene legends embrace that fully on the lead single off their new album, ‘a short history of decay’.
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Armand Hammer & The Alchemist feat. Silka & Cleo Reed – “Calypso Gene”
A duality of a history lesson and another one of those long, abstract walks down memory lane from the underground rap duo and The Alchemist.
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Navy Blue – “Orchards”
The Brooklyn multi-disciplined rapper discovers bliss and gets the win on the lead single from his new album, ‘The Sword & The Soaring’.
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Jimmy Eat World – “Failure”
Another success for the emo rock veterans as they pay stylistic homage to a certain space-rock band on this unearthed gem off their new EP, ‘Something(s) Loud’.