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Recommended Album: Regional Justice Center – ‘FREEDOM SWEET FREEDOM’
The extreme hardcore band of Ian Shelton and his brother Max Hellesto breaks free and ponders if the debt paid to society truly ever does go away.
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FACS – “Wish Defense”
The lead single and title track off the Chicago experimental art-rock trio’s new album aims a mirror straight at the self, or at least someone remsembling you.
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Cloakroom – “Unbelonging”
A fascinating shift away from the heavygaze atmosphere and into the neon psychedelic hues of the cosmos from the Indiana trio.
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Interview: Full Blown Meltdown On ‘For Once in My Life’, His New Split With The Acid Flashback at Nightmare Beach and Cyborg9K
The DIY emo hype man discusses the origin story behind his new split with his scene peers alongside his journey since his 2023 breakthrough, ‘Mollify’.
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FKA twigs – “Eusexua”
That higher state of being euphoria only FKA twigs can create.
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Ethel Cain – “Punish”
Following a trail blazed by the bearers of darkness before her, Hayden Anhedonia is making every step count in her continued ascent, even in her great Luciferian fall.
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Recommended Album: Sabrina Carpenter – ‘Short n’ Sweet’
Carpenter’s starmaking affair refocuses what pop music should be with gloss, unabashed innuendo, and big personality pulled off with a perfectionist entertainment value.
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Wishy – “Planet Popstar”
Wishy commit to that star-struck feeling, even at the risk of combusting across the cosmos.
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Dummy – “Dip In the Lake”
The music video for the core of ‘Free Energy’ offers you your own form of relief from whatever binds the mind.
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Buzz Sound: This Is Lorelei
The box runs deep with the prolific idiosyncratic indie-pop project of Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos.