Drums For Clowns and Kit Cooper’s ‘Grave Concern‘ sounds like several consecutive all-nighters. In the morning, instead of feeling the relief that exhaustion usually affords, your mind convenes a high-alert, totally unrequested all-hands meeting where nobody feels prepared for any of it. The song is frantic, angry, emtionally obsessive; the kind of track that doesn’t […]
Picture driving down a rain-slicked highway at midnight with the radio turned up as the raw distortion of classic guitars fills the air, because that exact electric feeling comes rushing back the moment Wild Synchros drops Riding in the Back Seat. Hailing from Barcelona, this independent outfit captures the spirit of early 2000s alternative rock
Annika Bellamy’s “That’s What I’m Thinking” isn’t much more than an audible day-dream, with the notable distinction being that Bellamy makes it sound like the best damn thing on earth. It takes a profoundly mundane experience -being unable to stop thinking of somebody- and essentially asks: “What if we just go with it?” The answer is
Picture standing inside a concrete bunker while a massive mechanical thunderstorm erupts overhead. That total sensory takeover hits the second Dead/Asleep launches into ‘Victimless’. The opening air-siren synth paints a scene of total emergency before a wall of down-tuned guitar chugs collapses directly onto the tempo. Independent music rarely arrives with this degree of absolute
“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,
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Let’s be honest: there’s something knowingly fun about something that admits you’re about to make a bad decision and then sets out to make that decision sound absolutely irresistible. Miss Verona’s “Bad For My Reputation” fully commits to that contradiction, morphing betrayal, temptation and otherwise unadvised romantic entanglements into a glossy, dance-driven pop record. The
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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
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There’s something wonderfully stupid about the insult “poser” when you really think about it. It is basically someone saying “You are pretending to be the thing you want to become” as though everyone who has ever tried to reinvent themselves simply woke up one morning already finished. BLØSMM’s “Poser” takes that accusation and turns it
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