There’s a long and slightly ridiculous tradition in pop and hip-hop of songs called Bad Girl. At this point it’s basically a genre title. You hear the phrase and your brain automatically starts filling in the blanks: swagger, a club beat, some vague commentary about attraction mixed with danger, and probably at least one line […]
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Jack Goldstein’s “falling off the earth” is one of those songs that initially walks up to you wearing a friendly, slightly scruffy Americana jacket, shakes your hand, tells you about farming in the 1980s, and then about halfway through, sets that jacket on fire and asks you to think about mortality. It is sincere, ambitious,
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There’s a certain confidence that comes with making an album called Nothing Lasts Forever and having it land not as a dirge, but as something surprisingly warm, generous, and alive. Brock Davis’ latest record is deeply aware of impermanence, but it isn’t obsessed with doom or mortality-as-spectacle. Instead, it feels like the sound of someone
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There’s a certain confidence that comes with looseness. Not the careless kind, but the kind that comes from knowing your instincts are sharp enough to trust. Douby, the debut album from DJ SoulChild AC, lives squarely in that space. It’s an album that doesn’t beg to be decoded track-by-track in a rigid order. Instead, it
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There’s something deeply dramatic about two former post-punk musicians from Glasgow reconnecting after decades apart and deciding, instead of quietly reminiscing about “the old days,” to make an album about surviving modern existence. It’s either the beginning of a midlife crisis or the start of something genuinely moving and on Survival, the debut album from
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It’s rare to hear a rock track in the charts nowadays, that’s why I was happy to hear Bedlam 1547’s newest track, ‘Summoning Mind.’ Join me as I talk about this track in length and why it’s the perfect nostalgia hit. The track starts with this high distorted lead riff alongside that drum pattern that
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“Everyday” finds Larry Mossburg turning the mundane into something magnetic. Framed as a snapshot of daily life, the track doesn’t aim for grand statements or dramatic arcs. Instead, it zooms in on routine; habits, thoughts, small victories and refracts them through sharp lyricism and a beat that hits harder than the subject matter might suggest.
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There’s a very specific kind of emotional pressure that builds when you’ve been “almost” doing the thing for years. Almost putting your own band first. Almost saying what you actually mean. Almost stepping out from behind other projects, other stages, other people’s spotlights. Eventually that pressure needs somewhere to go. That somewhere, in this case,
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You only get a handful of chances to cross paths with artists that have the ‘IT’ factor, and I think Charles Luck’s latest album, ‘Ai12die’, is actually it. Let me discuss the album at length and read why this is an album you don’t want to miss. ‘Beep Bop Boop’ is an upbeat song that
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There’s something uniquely modern about getting your music pulled from streaming because of a producer dispute and responding not with a vague Instagram Story but with, essentially, “Fine. I’ll do it myself.” That’s the energy powering the self-titled EP from TRXPSCO, a project born out of frustration, stubbornness and a crash course in DIY beat-making.
