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“Only Dark Shit” wasn’t an easy title to keep. The cuss in it means YouTube clips honeybee’s videos, ad platforms flag every promotion, and the Cleveland band gets dinged any time they try to push the record online. They kept it anyway. “In the
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On “Impostor Syndrome,” the latest single from their November 2025 album “Adrift,” Milan-area shoegaze and post-rock band No Pine Mall didn’t stop at the lyrics. They built the feeling of self-doubt into the song’s structure itself: the tension, the repetition, the way the sound
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Tomas (Märnø) and Tom (Ancst) each kept a tour diary through April.
