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Bog Witch’s “Have Much” Turns Betrayal Into a Beautiful Little Nightmare

What if the person telling you the story isn’t the most trustworthy person in the room? That’s the delicious little trap at the center of “Have Much,” the new single from Wendy DuMond’s Bog Witch project. Built around betrayal, self-deception and the increasingly complicated gulf between what we know and what we want to believe,

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Gunshots or Fireworks’ “Open Mic” Runs on Arizona Alt-Rock DNA

Nobody remembers a band’s second EP the way they remember a debut. When introductions are over and novelty has worn off, where do they hide? Gunshots or Fireworks don’t. Instead, they let a single like Open Mic do all the talking, Arizona has long been home to bands that know how to make atmosphere feel

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Adonys Fallz Brings the Good Vibes With His Country Crossover “Wilding Out (Small Town Beauty Queen)”

Country music has never been shy about dabbling in outside genres, and to us, that’s part of what makes today’s landscape of country so exciting. Be it infectious pop melodies, booming hip hop beats, or head-banging rock aggression, modern country has found itself a comfortable middle ground while retaining the relatable, storytelling roots that drew

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Rob Fletcher Faces the Impossible in Alt-Rock Masterpiece Hells Gate

There’s an authentic, honest flavour of Australian rock that appears unable to separate emotion from its environment. The road is more than just tarmac. The horizon isn’t merely a painted background. When one connects the enormous openness of the outback to the tumultuous interiors of the humans traversing it, songs such as Rob Fletcher’s ‘Hells

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motko Makes an Album for People Who Still Listen to Albums

There is something refreshingly subversive about creating an album that resists all conventions of contemporary music. Not the obnoxious, leather-jacket kind of rebellious, nor the “rock is coming back!” marketing pitch every label apparently has to trot out every six months. Home, the debut record by motko is rebellious because it trusts that you will

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Reetoxa Aims and Achieves Impossible Standards on “Demand Perfection”

Three decades into his songwriting journey, Melbourne-based musician Jason McKee could have easily introduced his band Reetoxa with something bland; a slick rock-and-roller which politely announces its presence and quickly vanishes into the algorithm. Instead, “Demand Perfection” does the opposite; it walks into the room and acts like it belongs there. Demand Perfection, the band’s

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“Anuther Sunny Hulliday” Is an Irresistibly Catchy Reminder That Sometimes the Best Summer Songs Aren’t the Ones That Are Necessarily Cool

“Anuther Sunny Hulliday” tries to subvert the summertime anthem-quite the opposite-but because it seems entirely unfazed by whatever algorithm-approved brand of “summer vibes” currently dominates streaming platforms. Instead, Mick J. Clark has delivered something that feels like it’s meandered in from a forgotten decade, tote bag in one hand, novelty sunglasses in the other, and

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Reetoxa’s “You Deserve Better Than Me” Is the Breakup Song That Knows When to Walk Away

There are roughly six billion songs ever written about getting someone back. The entire pop landscape is built around elaborately creative ways of singing “Actually, could we just sort of rewind everything?” so it’s a bizarre novelty to hear a song take the path less taken and acknowledge something infinitely harder to admit: you’re pretty

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The Most Extraordinary Thing About Bottle Is That It Sounds Nothing at All Like a Museum Piece

It’s a beautifully romantic notion that a songwriter might spend thirty years sitting on one of his finest ideas. Not in the cinematic, ‘lost masterpiece’ sense, but in the more plausible sense that some people hang on to a good bottle of wine on the shelf until a day arrives that seems ‘worthy’ of opening

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