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Makthaverskan – “Louie”
If this is what Makthaverskan sounds like when they’ve allowed themselves to become compressed, it only reveals more sparkle within.
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Mitski – “Where’s My Phone?”
Mitski sounds free even in the renewed fright of being unshackled from her screen on the lead single from ‘Nothing’s About to Happen to Me’.
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Buzz Sound: Holder
With their new EP, ‘Ruin The Best of Me’, the Western Massachusetts hardcore band profess a decades-deep knowledge of screamo history which they turn into maximalist devotionals.
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Dry Socket – “Rigged Survival”
A good reminder that you just don’t fuck with someone who has nothing left to lose from the Portland hardcore punks’ new album, ‘Self Defense Techniques’.
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COMMITMENT – “DOG POUND”
Righteously pissed at the world, the Philly hardcore pseudo supergroup are making man their bitch on the lead single off their debut album, ‘Fear Of’.
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Snail Mail – “Dead End”
There’s still plenty of unease to be felt with new beginnings, yet Lindsey Jordan is embracing her own inner transformation outward with indie pop-rock fireworks.
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trauma ray – “Hannibal”
Focusing rage ‘gaze toward the skeptics, the Fort Worth band answers their questions resoundingly on the first preview off their new EP, ‘Carnival’.
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Poison The Well – “Thoroughbreds”
With no fear, the metalcore originators have come back to haunt us just in the nick of time on the lead single off their first new album in 17 years.
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Buzz Sound: I Promised The World
In short, the new romantics of the all-consuming metal and hardcore scene more than deliver with their eponymous EP.
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Host Family – “Explain It To Me”
Host Family’s language of noise pop is many, and that’s what should draw you into the conversation.