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Greg Mendez – “First Time”
Turn out the light and wilt away with the first preview off the Philly songwriter’s new EP, ‘First Time / Alone’.
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Buzz Sound: Allegra Krieger
The mesmerizing electric indie folk of the NYC songwriter inhabits spaces quiet, noisy, or somewhere rustling headspaces in the in-betweens of existential observation.
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Soccer Mommy – “Driver”
“Driver” doesn’t necessarily promise a bump-free relationship ride, but the way Sophia Allison puts it, this is her kind of cruise control.
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The Cure – “Alone”
If this is the end of every song that we sing, then by all means, let Robert Smith narrate the end credits of civilization’s season finale that goes along with it.
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Open Head – “Catacomb”
On their new single, the Hudson Valley experimental industrial band attempt to break through the cold concrete walls of the oppressive and depressive states of our current systems.
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Chat Pile – “Funny Man”
Chat Pile become the contracted war machine for our gooning pleasures.
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Thirdface – “Meander”
The lead single off the Nashville hardcore band’s sophomore effort, ‘Ministerial Cafeteria’, gives them the space they need to breathe rage out resoundingly.
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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.