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“Love is Everywhere” by INTERCONTINEN7AL Pulls You Into Tender Waves and Sunlight

While others try to dominate with volume and grief-soaked emotions, Love is Everywhere by INTERCONTINEN7AL does the opposite, giving you a breather built in simplicity, calmness, and warmth you didn’t know you needed. Hailing from Castle Rock, CO, United States, INTERCONTINEN7AL redefines collaboration as a global music collective. Their 2024 EP World Over was a […]

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Muse to Sirens’ “Glass Wings” Is A Mantra And A Shattering All At Once

Have you ever heard a song that feels like it came straight out of the hands of a German expressionist artist? If not, then Muse to Sirens’ “Glass Wings” is the closest thing — gloomy, distorted, a sound carved in gloom and inner turmoil. Muse to Sirens is one of the Pennsylvania gems led by

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SLEEPNOWQUEEN’s “Black Rose” Brings Gothic Obsession From The 80s Dance Floor

Skip the euphoric, sugar rush atmosphere you’d get with a mainstream polish, this is SLEEPNOWQUEEN’s “Black Rose” to claim the dance floor with a flashing, velvet-slick pulse, and midnight bite. SLEEPNOWQUEEN is a Kansas-based alternative experimental artist known for their distinct dissection of 80s music through their style, drawing heavy inspiration from the sound of

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Steve White & the Protest Family’s “Evidence-Based Punk Rock” LP Is Punk in All Its Meaning

In my years of reviewing and critiquing music, I always fumble on the question, “What is the meaning of punk music?” Some say it’s loud and unapologetic music. Others would say it’s about being different, and I can say, it’s all correct. Let Steve White & The Protest Family’s latest LP, Evidence-Based Punk Rock, help

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Mercy Kelly’s Latest Single, “Out in the Night,” Is the Alternative We Need

At some point in time, we would agree that the majority of mainstream music that comes out can be a hit or miss; that’s why we turn to the alternative. The indie sector. Let me introduce you to the newest addition to your indie playlist. Meet Mercy Kelly and their latest single, ‘Out in The

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neptune blood’s “A Quiet Riot Inside” feels like a memory and a real-time scene

Some songs feel like a throwback, while some strive to sound entirely new. But there are a few cuts that embody both, like neptune blood’s debut EP, “A Quiet Riot Inside.” And it’s the kind of record that feels like a memory and a real-time scene at the same time. neptune blood is a band

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DownTown Mystic’s “Mystic Highway” Is Fully Revved Up Classic Rock N’ Roll With Modern Bite

Isn’t it great when artists add their own flair to classic, timeless sounds? Like they’re not trying so hard to be different, but they also don’t settle for some kind of carbon-copy of the past. DownTown Mystic knows how to do it right with the EP “Mystic Highway”. DownTown Mystic is the alter ego of

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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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