Let’s be clear from the start: Gemeinsam Stark by Stahlschmiede is not here to make friends. It is here to smash your expectations into a fine powder, weaponize them, and throw them directly back at your face with the force of a blast beat summoned from the gut of a dying star. Formed in the […]
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Eric Schroeder has apparently decided that subtlety is for cowards. Cat’s Game is what happens when a musician who’s spent years carefully crafting harmonic introspection finally looks around, shrugs, and mutters “screw it” before plugging in everything he owns and turning it all the way up. The result? A lean; loud; emotionally wrecked album that
Imagine if Foals’ Antidotes era got hopelessly lost in a jungle made of synths and disco sweat, and instead of trying to find a way out, just decided to build a temple and start a cult of emotional self-acceptance. That’s basically what “Life’s a Mess (But We Love It)” by Lawrence Timoni sounds like. This
Dreams are often hard to recall – it takes time to actually tell the tales in your mind, or rather, it’s impossible to even begin. This song, fully encompassing the nature of alternative rock, sets the scene in an ample amount of time, leaving listeners with anticipation. “Falling Apart”, at first glance, nay, listen, seems
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“I don’t wanna play it so safe / I know we can level up this pace” Okay, we see you, Manneto! With intense, yet fun and suggestive lyrics, this song will have you laid back and fully at ease by how subtle and comforting everything is. Right off the bat, this heavily resembles most chill
With an upbeat start and the vibrant yet mellow ambience set by the surrounding instruments, this song is sure to win over an audience in the first few seconds alone. If you’re a follower of the indie scene, you would most likely consider this a gem. Edie Yvonne is a singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles,
On the first glance, “Bitcoins & Tesla Shares” by The Cumberland River Project is a song that absolutely sounds like it should be a joke… and yet, somehow, isn’t. You read the title and expect parody, maybe a yeehaw remix of a Reddit thread. What you get instead is something far more unexpected: a genuinely
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Imagine Billy Idol is cryogenically frozen in a chrome sarcophagus beneath Camden Market sometime around 1987. Then, decades later, he’s thawed out in 2014 by accident during the recording of No Fixed Address, a.k.a. the Nickelback album where they briefly flirted with electronic music and accidentally made a synth-rock soundtrack for the apocalypse and ended
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Through solid basslines, slinky riffs, and defining beats, this album fully encapsulates the experiences and struggles of one that may be applicable to many. “Slow Progress” consists of twelve tracks, each of which tells a story within a similar path. It embodies the sound of alternative hip-hop, with rap that leaves no detail behind. It
Next level hip-hop right here. Clearly, this song has its own theme and connotation, yet it takes the genre up a stair or two with how well-executed “ENCHANTMENT” is. Trippy in a spiritual sense, the opening lines are similar to a chant, a refrain, a couple words to live by. Proklaim sets what he’s about
