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There is a very specific kind of song that hits differently when it is 2 a.m., you have headphones on, you absolutely should be asleep and your brain has suddenly decided that now is the perfect time to review every terrible decision you have ever made. Quinetik’s “Astronaut Dreams” fits that category pretty damn well.

“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,

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

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

Australian hip hop artist IamSnap takes a deeply personal experience of anguish and wrests it into an unexpectedly encouraging affirmation on “Last Round,” a single that personifies depression and anxiety not as the abstract conditions they are but as a force that needs to be wrestled with. The immediate creation of tension begins in its

When it comes to horror fans, there are two types of people: people who hear the name Freddy and immediately think of a large brown animatronic bear who may or may not be housing children’s bodies and/or souls inside them and people who hear it and instinctively check whether they’re dreaming. EllyMarD is very clearly

Magenta Ray turns rom-com chemistry into dark and cinematic rock on their latest track “A Kiss Like This” and they aren’t exactly going the quiet, tender approach. Instead, Magenta Ray ups the stakes of the classic crush by exploding their familiar blend of lush indie riffs, expansive guitar landscapes, ethereal vocals, and darkwave undertones into