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A quaint strum here, an aggressive harmony there. Spun together out of fragmented melodies and broken emotions reimagined in lyrics, we find a bittersweet story to behold in the new album String Ladders from The Color Forty Nine that perhaps speaks to the fractures in alternative music, both self-created and aesthetically inevitable. In songs like the short […]
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In Cold Stares riveting and dynamic new effort, Heavy Shoes changes speeds and tempos and presents the band’s gift of creating songs with freedom and clarity. Breathtaking in scope, Heavy Shoes takes the listener on a ride back to the days of Iron Maiden, Soundgarden and classic White Stripes. WEBSITE: https://www.thecoldstares.com/?tag=heavyshoes Each song is perfectly […]
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Little King is a band with a backstory that astounds many, and confounds a few. It was 25 years ago, that Ryan Rosoff decided it was time to branch out on his own from his prior band, and find his inner royalty. Since that time, Little King has gone through multiple iterations, and even a […]
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At once reminiscent of the growling tonal menace of The Stooges and something even further left of the dial, Eagle Johnson’s fretwork in the new album The Last Gun is probably the biggest reason it left me hypnotized upon hearing it for the first time. For the past ten years, good guitar rock has been inconceivably hard […]
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Indie rock’s greatest moments have always been born of experimentations rebellious and reckless alike, and Paul Rocha’s new LP Apophenia seems to embody a little bit of both inside of its ten captivating tracks. From the haunting, Beat Happening-style “Sister Silhouette” to the fiercer “Sweet Marianne,” Apophenia sees Rocha dabbling in poetic complexities more than he is instrumental virtuosities, […]
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When it comes to maintaining consistency in content and energy, the guys in Pistols At Dawn are experts. Any project you listen to by them feels as concise and focused as the last, and their latest EP, Nocturnal Youth, is no exception. The four tracks are all extremely well-produced, and they each feel inevitably destined […]
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Doug Kistner’s “Don’t Look Down” is the latest single from the New Jersey singer and keyboardist. Kistner has an extensive history working as a touring musician who has shared stages with a variety of acts such as John Waite, Chicago’s Danny Seraphine, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, as well as Blood Sweat and Tears. He has a […]
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The youth are the future, and the music industry, in particular, seems directly affected by this more than most areas of entertainment with the ever-changing fads and social media platforms ebbing and flowing harder than the tide. With the colossal rise of youth musicians like Billie Eilish, Noah Cyrus, and Lil Nas X in the […]
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Attaining a new lease on life in the wake of already going through the wringer that is the music industry once before can be as enlightening as it might be daunting. For singer-songwriter-drummer-bandleader Tedi Brunetti (talk about a multi-hyphenate), that first go-around happened to take place in the 70s and 80s-era of New York City […]
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When starting up Izzie’s Caravan’s debut LP Blow The Lid, the intentions are put on deep display and the shots are called (literally in some songs with the use of gunshot sound effects) loudly and proudly — the opening track “Roadkill Rita” is an unabashedly rollicking good time and a fantastically efficient way to showcase […]
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