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Throughout Around This Edge Together, The7thGatekeeper Doesn’t Hide the Uneven Edges

There’s a particular magic to DIY albums, by which I mean the kind of magic you get when someone records an entire emotional exorcism inside a room that is, by every reasonable metric, unfit for human occupation. Around This Edge Together is exactly that sort of project: a nine-track odyssey made inside what The7thGatekeeper calls […]

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deadwater’s Revelry in Reverie Is the Rare Basement Grunge Record That Isn’t Defined by Its Limitations

There’s something strangely beautiful about an album made entirely in a basement. Not in the romanticized, Hollywood-montage sense, but in the real sense: a probably-too-humid, maybe-questionably-wired below-ground bunker where a man with a guitar and a laptop decided that normalcy was overrated. That man is deadwater, and the result of his subterranean stubbornness is Revelry

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Joseph Kuhl’s “The Witness” Refuses To Let Anyone Look Away

There are musicians that step on the stage to perform, but there are a few who do music like a hand-written placard: red letters, bent cardboard, rough edges. Joseph Kuhl’s “The Witness” is one of the few, the one for crowds, marches, meant to be shouted back in the streets. Joseph Kuhl’s musical roots trace

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Michellar and Rad Datsun’s “Game of Love” Is a Track Built With Burning Passion

Music knows no bounds. That is a clear and true testament to Michellar’s newest track, ‘Game of Love’ featuring Rad Datsun. Regardless of distance, these artists were able to create a song that would capture their passion in R&B and Soul. ‘Game of Love’ started with this low-filtered drum beat, followed by that funky bass

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Giuseppe Cucé’s “21 grammi” Isn’t Just A Concept, It’s The Gravity Of Human Experience

It’s a bit of a downplay to call Giuseppe Cucé’s “21 grammi” an album. You know when an artist is serious about their work, and there are not enough words to unearth its depth and meaning? That’s exactly it. It’s the kind that doesn’t just stick but leaves you smirking, intrigued, changed, or even challenged.

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Red Skies Dawning’s “From Ashes” Burns With Lived-In Rage And Resilience

Red Skies Dawning isn’t afraid to drag their music into the dirt. While others are too comfortable in polish and TikTok-worthy sounds, the band muddies the edges until the gloss and trend is finally gone. With their latest EP “From Ashes”, they open a portal to a world built from survival and wreckage. From Ashes

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With Dancing My Way to Happiness, AmorA Essentially Said “Fine. I’ll Make My Own Universe. With Neon. And Synths.”

There’s something deeply funny and deeply satisfying about watching a lifelong behind-the-scenes wizard finally step out from behind the curtain. AmorA spent years building entire universes for other people: scoring films, shaping sound for video art, and even helping win a Grammy for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. She has been, musically speaking, the person responsible

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Ripsime Is Doing Something That Many Artists Attempt and Very Few Pull Off: She’s Making Her Universe Coherent

Re-releasing old songs is usually the domain of artists who’ve either run out of new ideas or desperately need to remind people they still exist; like a high school reunion announcement, but with more reverb. Thankfully, Ripsime is neither of those. Instead, she’s decided to dig up three early tracks in the form of “Dare,”

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The Core of Forever Got a Lot Shorter Is Emotional Elasticity

Debut albums tend to fall into one of two camps: the carefully curated calling card or the unfiltered “here’s everything we’ve ever wanted to shout into the void.” Forever Got A Lot Shorter, the debut LP from south-coast UK outfit Endless Talking, somehow manages to be both and not in the diplomatic, “oh, they’re balancing

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“It’s Christmas Party Time” by Mick J. Clark Is Your Christmas Single

We are a few weeks away from Christmas, and I know that you’ve been blasting Mariah Carey and a bunch of Christmas music on your playlist or however you listen to your music. Let me add another song to your Christmas playlist. Join me as I discuss Mick J. Clark’s single, ‘It’s Christmas Party Time’,

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