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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.
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Robber Robber – “Talkback”
A fit of retrospect favors the idiosyncratic Burlington rockers’ momentum on their new single.
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This Is Lorelei – “Holo Boy”
This Is Lorelei easily transcends dimensions on the title track from his forthcoming collection of his own timeless indie pop revisited.
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Recommended Album: Sharp Pins – ‘Balloon Balloon Balloon’
The Lifeguard guitarist’s second album as Sharp Pins throws power-pop nostalgia for a loop where every moment and its idiosyncratic craft has you hanging on, as if it’s the first time you’ve ever heard music made this way.
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Lifeguard – “Ultra Violence”
An intent to blaze their own trail is to be assumed on the fiery first preview from the Chicago art-punk trio’s new maxi-single.
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Recommended EP: ira glass – ‘joy is no knocking nation’
The Chicago underground band’s feral instincts to celebrate their raw, messy, confrontational yet charismatic bouts of noise are only growing stronger on their second EP.
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Converge – “Love Is Not Enough”
The Boston metalcore veterans remain a timeless beacon of reckoning when we need it most on the lead single and title track from their 10th studio album.