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Anxious – “Where You Been”
The emotive Connective punk band’s softer anxieties are filled with power-pop harmonies, synth spirals, and reflective pianos that show how much they’ve grown out there while undergoing the growing pains that come with living out their dream.
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Recommended Album: Knifeplay – ‘Animal Drowning’
On their debut album, the Philly experimental rockers bound light and darkness into their own singular prism of alternative in a way that breathes a new life into it, and ponders it all deeply.
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fleshwater – “The Razor’s Apple”
It’s the danger in the ear candy that makes their kind of heavy a real twisted treat…
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Recommended Album: Taylor Swift – ‘Midnights’
One of Swift’s most cohesively-designed albums in mood and theme, further expanding her musical multi-universe by yet another layer.
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Gold Dust – “Mountain Laurel”
The latest preview off the Western Mass psych-folk artist’s new album basks in the journey of uncertainty of this life by immersing the self in what is known naturally.
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CUSTOMER – “Floorboards” b/w “Absolutely Nothing”
The new band led by former Doe vocalist Nicola Leel easily bursts through the excitement barrier thanks in part to fresh nerves.
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Militarie Gun feat. MSPAINT’s Deedee – “Can’t Get None”
Joined by MSPAINT’s Deedee, Militarie Gun break from the leash and continue carving out a self-made identity in their evolving hardcore.
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Recommended Album: They Are Gutting a Body of Water – ‘lucky styles’
The third full-length effort from the Philly experimental band realizes their most wildest yet appeasing impulses in one sitting.
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Interview: Kate Meizner of Jobber On The Band’s Debut EP ‘Hell In A Cell’
The leader of the indie rock ‘n wrestling faction discusses the intersect between life as an independent musician and that of a grappler, entrance themes as songwriting inspo, and putting all other bands on notice.
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Taylor Swift – “Anti-Hero”
Orbed in a soft banger, if it’s what keeps you up at night as well, consider those voices of self-doubt in perfect company here on the ‘Midnights’ highlight.
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Recommended Album: Punitive Damage – ‘This Is the Blackout’
Personally confrontationally hardcore that puts an emphasis on life from the margins, smashing power structures, and devouring the rich with a bladesaw aggression.
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Kelela – “Happy Ending”
A return to the peak delirium energy Kelela can possess in her futurescaped R&B.