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Recommended Album: DJ Haram – ‘Beside Myself’
On her debut album, the Brooklyn-based producer keeps your attention fixed, be it fraught in terror or thirst-trapped in thought provocatively.
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Ava Luna – “Frame of Us”
The Brooklyn art-pop band’s terrestrial homecoming is a reminder that you don’t always have to look up to see new phases of the moon happening all around you.
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AFI – “Behind the Clock”
With a Lynchian vantage point that spirits ’70s gothic rock, AFI remain transcendent against the timeline with the lead single from their 12th studio album, ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’
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DRAIN – “Stealing Happiness From Tomorrow”
Between the breakdowns and brick walls riffs, it’s true that life gets heavy. DRAIN just aren’t about to let any of that weigh them down…
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End It – “Optical Delusions”
The Baltimore wreckers submit the bad actors around us with a choice blow to the ego on the latest preview off their debut album, ‘Wrong Side of Heaven’.
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Hayley Williams – “Glum”
In asking the big questions, Williams leaves little to wonder if embracing past selves gets in the way of transformation.
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Hayley Williams – “Mirtazapine”
Hayley Williams knows her depression meds as well as she does her heavy alternative rock scene history in her homage to her favorite pill.
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Hayley Williams – “Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party”
When the bar is clearly in Hell, Williams easily stands out like the brightest star against Music City’s blinding hypocrisy through her contempo-R&B cool hot take.
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Recommended Album: Clipse – ‘Let God Sort Em Out’
The return of Pusha T and Malice bests modern rap at its own game with even more stone cold finesse in skill and squad allyship.
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Chappell Roan – “The Subway”
Chappell Roan’s familiar touch and feel on dream-pop definitely lingers, as do reminders of the one who got away.