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Nashville’s indie scene, in Dillon Wilson’s reading, has settled into a kind of polite uniform โ long-sleeves under t-shirts, the
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There’s a part of “Porno” Elsa Yepes doesn’t remember playing. Her brain literally cuts the recording. “My brain faces fear
The cover catches you before anything else โ a naked figure on the ground in a snowy forest, edelweiss at
The Korg Prologue that defined SSAANN‘s sound wasn’t even theirs. In the winter of 2024, Melissa Simes was stepping in
When the question came up about how emoviolence, blackened hardcore, and post-metal cross over on House of The Blood Choir’s
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The April sun in Warsaw isn’t fixing anything. It’s cold out โ the kind of cold that makes the calendar feel like a typo. “Faking Life,” the new single from For Example John, doesn’t care. It’s the most chaotic riff guitarist Piotr Pietrzak says
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First spins of Under the Moon pulled me back to hearing Balthvs for the first time โ that sensual, unhurried register you get in a jazz club, music that settles next to you without pushing. Balthvs later pushed deeper into exotic psych rhythms. But
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Three letters that have done real work in hardcore: PMA. Positive Mental
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First spin on Menderbug’s new single โ the instinct was to file
