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Buzz Sound: Kareem Rahma’s Tiny Gun
A New York City rock band that sounds like a New York City rock band with no stake in the game, and is all the cooler for it.
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Recommended Album: mo dotti – ‘opaque’
Bending their instruments as the shoegaze gods intended, the Los Angeles band’s nuance of noise and pop radiates no matter the medium of melody.
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blue zero – “scar”
There’s calmness in the Bay Area art-rock band’s wilted electric state, even in being incinerated slowly by the sun.
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Force Model – “Crossed Off”
A multitude of feelings run through the malleable post-hardcore trio’s view, and they leave nothing uncrossed in working through them on their latest single.
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Recommended Album: Charly Bliss – ‘FOREVER’
Premium grade pop that hits you just right in the moment and sticks to your heart from that point on from the chronic underdogs.
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Rival Schools – “You Should Have Hung Out”
An unreleased track from the ‘Pedals’ reissue guides an anthem for those what if’s that tend to come our way in life.
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High Vis – “Drop Me Out”
The driver’s seat is High Vis’, and they know their path clearly on the intentional punk anthem off their new album, ‘Guided Tour’.
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Regional Justice Center – “MORAL DEATH SENTENCE”
Not everything is what it seems, yet it’s a cruelty to forever be found guilty of something that you’re not, and no one knows that better than RJC.
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Show Me the Body feat. High Vis – “Stomach”
Fire meets fire makes for the perfect compliment as the experimental hardcore punk trio and the High Vis frontman spit intestinal acid into anything standing between them.
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Buzz Sound: julie
The enigmatic Los Angeles trio are restoring shoegaze to its more corrosive form rather than hiding their flaws behind a wall of filtered, dreamy textures.
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Special Interest – “Nothing Grows Here”
There’s power in reminding yourself of your creative autonomy against the noise on the New Orleans industrial synth-punks’ new single.
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Pharmakon – “METHANOL DOLL”
From dust to dust? Not quite so fast, as Margaret Chardiet breaks down the realities of port-mortem decomposition on the latest offering from ‘Maggot Mass’.