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Grinding guitars assault us at the start of “Stuck in Your Way” and don’t stop thrashing us through the deluge of distortion that forms “Suffering in Silence,” “I Never Forget,” “Nothing Left to Sell” and the title cut in The Unbroken’s Human Crown, a fresh slab of metallic thunder currently out everywhere independent heavy music is […]
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One second they’re slinking around in the background like a thief in the night, the next they’re in our face and punishing any melodic element that dare enter their path with a forceful grind as evocative as any of the harmonies surrounding it are. Grooves the size of skyscrapers are everywhere we look, but they’re […]
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A cathartic strum that is as freeing a sound as you’ll hear on a new album this year stokes the first flames of a burning-hot melody in “This Moment On,” the first song that we hear on Dave Vargo’s new album Spaces in Between. It’s simple strumming and it’s easily one of the most evocative and […]
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A cathartic strum that is as freeing a sound as you’ll hear on a new album this year stokes the first flames of a burning-hot melody in “This Moment On,” the first song that we hear on Dave Vargo’s new album Spaces in Between. It’s simple strumming and it’s easily one of the most evocative and […]
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In his latest album, titled Welcome to the Edge Times, Jon Patrick Walker gets back to basics and explores his depth as a lyricist in a way that he never has before, and to describe the results of his efforts as quite sterling would be an understatement to say the least. In songs like the title […]
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A skipping beat, rustic guitar strings and a glowing vocal harmony filtered through a fuzzy reservoir of noise come together to forge “A Blessing I Can’t Earn,” one of the more upbeat moments in Oh My Darlin’, the new record from Streaking in Tongues, but as simple and unfanciful as this particularly evocative ballad is, […]
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2019 has produced a lot more success for rap artists than it has rock bands, but in the all-new record from ATL-based up and comers Lesibu Grand, old fashioned guitar melodies get the long-overdue makeover that they truly deserve. Titled The Legend of Miranda, Lesibu Grand’s debut EP is a mixture of groove-driven rock that […]
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For more than a quarter-century now, the Toronto Tabla Ensemble has been making fearlessly progressive recordings that seemingly no one else has been capable of recreating on their own, and in “Dream Symposium,” their latest single, they return to the headlines with one of their more capable and ambitious efforts in recent memory. “Dream Symposium” […]
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Both enigmatic and exquisitely surreal in tone, the lyrical lashings that strike out at all within earshot of the lead vocal in Patiently Awaiting the Meteorite’s “Devil’s In My Car” are definitely among the all-new single’s boldest attributes. Even in their most fundamentally vulnerable of moments, these verses draw us into the web of harmonies […]
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Young upstart rapper Swigga Geovanni drops a colorful, heartfelt debut in his new single “DMLY (Daddy Mi Love You),” which has been kicking up quite the buzz-storm among his scene and beyond this month (though not without just cause). In “DMLY (Daddy Mi Love You),” Geovanni establishes himself as an alternative to the commercialized mainstream […]
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