Annika Bellamy’s “That’s What I’m Thinking” isn’t much more than an audible day-dream, with the notable distinction being that Bellamy makes it sound like the best damn thing on earth. It takes a profoundly mundane experience -being unable to stop thinking of somebody- and essentially asks: “What if we just go with it?” The answer is
Stray Kids member Lee Know is using his success to help people facing one of Nepal’s worst natural disasters. The K-pop star donated 100 million Korean won, roughly $72,000 or around ₱4 million, to World Vision for emergency relief efforts following the devastating floods in Nepal. The donation was made on August 28 and was
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Picture standing inside a concrete bunker while a massive mechanical thunderstorm erupts overhead. That total sensory takeover hits the second Dead/Asleep launches into ‘Victimless’. The opening air-siren synth paints a scene of total emergency before a wall of down-tuned guitar chugs collapses directly onto the tempo. Independent music rarely arrives with this degree of absolute
“Cyberstalking” is, objectively, a pretty terrible thing to experience. One Empty Toybox has nevertheless decided that the appropriate response is to make a song about it that sounds like it might be having an unusually good time and, weirdly enough, it works. The band’s “Cyberstalking” takes a subject that could very easily become a miserable,
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Let’s be honest: there’s something knowingly fun about something that admits you’re about to make a bad decision and then sets out to make that decision sound absolutely irresistible. Miss Verona’s “Bad For My Reputation” fully commits to that contradiction, morphing betrayal, temptation and otherwise unadvised romantic entanglements into a glossy, dance-driven pop record. The
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Modern-day rock ’n’ roll could use a little more attitude and a lot less pretending. Thankfully, there are bands that are more than willing to say it out loud, and Segrëgates does exactly that on their latest release, No Rhyme or Reason. Segrëgates formed around 2010 with Motorhead serving as a major influence, and they’re
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There’s something wonderfully stupid about the insult “poser” when you really think about it. It is basically someone saying “You are pretending to be the thing you want to become” as though everyone who has ever tried to reinvent themselves simply woke up one morning already finished. BLØSMM’s “Poser” takes that accusation and turns it
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There’s only a handful of songs that can take all the noise, anxiety, and bad news and turn it into something cathartic. Actve Captve’s latest release PSSSH! does exactly that—and somehow makes the chaos fun to sit with. If Twenty One Pilots, AWOLNATION, and Glass Animals are in your playlist, Austin-based band Actve Captve might
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Picture standing at the edge of a dark highway while FROZENROOM fires up their latest single “The Fire” with a crushing riff that shakes your chest cavity. The guitars hit like heavy machinery and the opening sequence pulls no punches as it builds an arena-sized momentum. You can hear decades of Alternative Metal heritage humming under the
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Some rappers take ages to curate an image, and then there is Spoony-B, whose response to all this artistic branding, to me, seems to have been-well, what if I just sound like a public safety risk? And yes, that is part of the enjoyment. The South Philly rapper (born Brandon Baich) is an artist who
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