There’s only a handful of songs that can take all the noise, anxiety, and bad news and turn it into something cathartic. Actve Captve’s latest release PSSSH! does exactly that—and somehow makes the chaos fun to sit with. If Twenty One Pilots, AWOLNATION, and Glass Animals are in your playlist, Austin-based band Actve Captve might
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Picture standing at the edge of a dark highway while FROZENROOM fires up their latest single “The Fire” with a crushing riff that shakes your chest cavity. The guitars hit like heavy machinery and the opening sequence pulls no punches as it builds an arena-sized momentum. You can hear decades of Alternative Metal heritage humming under the
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Some rappers take ages to curate an image, and then there is Spoony-B, whose response to all this artistic branding, to me, seems to have been-well, what if I just sound like a public safety risk? And yes, that is part of the enjoyment. The South Philly rapper (born Brandon Baich) is an artist who
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There are songs that want to make you feel good, songs that want to make you dance, and songs that apparently looked at the fentanyl crisis and went, “Right, we’re going to need guitars for this.” That is “Salt,” the single from Washington, D.C. artist G Sharp BIG 40. Inspired by a news story about
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You just got to love it when EPs are named exactly like how it sounds. THROES NYC’s The Wires Out is pretty much that—everything is exposed, buzzing, sparking, and maybe one bad decision away from catching fire. THROES NYC is the brainchild of Queens, NY natives Michael Bozzo and Courtney Leo, who have been making
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Picture this: a metalcore song built around the idea that you have to keep moving or everything falling apart. It sounds like the sort of motivational poster that would be hanging in a gym run by a man who owns seven protein shakers. Except Audiosvora’s “Motion” takes that idea and makes it considerably more aggressive:
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Floyds Row’s The Carlisle Sessions is a five-track EP that digs through old folk material and gives it a fresh coat of paint without pretending the past needs to be perfectly recreated. The group, formed out of collaborations at the University of Oxford, approaches traditional music less like a museum exhibit and more like a
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A jagged wall of distorted guitar feedback cuts straight through the quiet before a furious drum beat kicks the door off its hinges. On Black Hole independent artist Dear Doky charges out of the gate with an immediate sense of emergency that grabs your chest and refuses to let go. The track instantly establishes a
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Out in the sun-baked sprawl of the New Mexico desert rock and roll still carries the scent of unwashed denim and spilled beer. On their debut single “Modern Lover” Purse Thief burn through two generations of guitar mythology with the frantic energy of a band speeding down Interstate 40 in a stolen Buick. Frontman Rafael
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Some songs are atmospheric. Other songs just throw a mountain of reverb on it and hope no one notices it. MILYAM is squarely in the former camp with her newest song, “Dream.” The LA-based artist recently earned recognition beyond “Dream,” with her single “Intimacy” selected as a Semi-Finalist in the R&B/Soul category at the Unsigned
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