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Buzz Sound: Sharp Pins
With ‘Radio DDR’, Lifeguard’s Kai Slater is converging the timelines between golden age power-pop vinyl and today’s DIY indie rock cassettes.
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Recommended EP: BALMORA – ‘Prologue’ EP
This is just the start of the first chapter being written by the glorious Connecticut hardcore metal band…
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Recommended Album: JIVEBOMB – ‘ETHEREAL’
The Baltimore band’s phoenix ascent cracks a difficult-to-decode style that mediates both of hardcore’s current directional limbs on their debut full-length.
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Deerhoof – “Immigrant Songs”
We are all visitors in this land, and Deerhoof loudly remind us of that on the latest highlight from their 20th album, ‘Noble and Godlike In Ruin’.
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Model/Actriz – “Doves”
In withholding from a louder ecstasy, Model/Actriz derive their own nuance to that pleasure.
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Wishy – “Over and Over”
Not overthinking the process finds treasure in a simpler approach to alternative pop songwriting perfection on the latest from ‘Planet Popstar’.
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Dummy & GMO – “Unshaped Road (GMO’s Gummy Remix)”
Experimental art-pop trio GMO are given full-blown access to Dummy’s sound lab and further manipulate the ‘Free Energy’ highlight’s gravity.
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Recommended Album: SPELLLING – ‘Portrait of My Heart’
Chrystia Cabral’s outsider nature is her alternative rock star superpower that makes her latest shape-shift an even more inventive take on the genre than anyone else could attempt.
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Superheaven – “Stare At The Void”
The black hole sun has grown even larger in pulling in some of Superheaven’s most melodic gravity yet.
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Lost Film – “Pilot Light”
With their new single, the Western Mass dream-pop band furthers their brightness by setting their sights on the sun.