Category: Album
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On Still High…, Raw Soul Proves That Independence Has Its Own Kind of Gravity
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Eight tracks — and you realize someone has spent the last few years alone with…
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The Nth Power’s Never Alone Is a Jazz-Funk Album That Trusts the Listener
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The Nth Power have a habit that says a lot about this band: they release…
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Russ Lorenson — A Little Travelin’ Music (20th Anniversary Edition): A Jazz Album That Travels the World and Finds Its Way Home
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Twenty years is long enough for an album to become a stranger to its own…
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Louis Emory and The Reckless Few Built The Siege to Be Lived In
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I’ve long noticed a habit of mine: whenever someone puts on a new rock record…
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Pete Scales: The Bluesman Who Filed His Entire Career Under One Shade of Blue
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Pete Scales spent half a century playing blues, jazz, and country, balancing on the borders…
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Reimagination Vol. 1 by M4TR : The Remix Album You’ll Need to Hear Twice
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“Reimagination: The Remixes, Vol. 1” by M4TR is built like a hall of mirrors: you…
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Simon Talbot and Peter Toussaint Expand Their World on “Simon Called Peter III”
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Simon Talbot and Peter Toussaint return. “Simon Called Peter III” is their third collaborative record, and it is longer, more…
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QR Codes on the Streets of Denver Are Opening Portals to an Anime Dimension — mOXIE mOTIVE Put Them There
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Thirteen minutes of animated ambient from Denver, where five remastered tracks from Chakra Supernova transform…
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Paul Kahn’s Forgotten Songs Finally Found the Right Voice — Catherine Russell’s
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Songwriter Paul Kahn has released Willingness, a six-track country EP recorded with Grammy® winner Catherine…
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Jada Di’Larosa Made an Album That Smells Like Black Lipstick and Tastes Like Bourbon
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Jada Di’Larosa turned a vanity table into a stage and a sleepless night into a…
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The Joe Levy Band — “Porch Rockin’”: A Country Album That Stopped Pretending to be Pure Country — and Became All The More Honest For It
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The Joe Levy Band have made “Porch Rockin“ — nine tracks where country, blues, and…
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Legend Is Back! Jernej Zoran’s Eighth Album Proves Patience Is the Ultimate Rock Virtue
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An eighth album is a strange point in a career. The first is a debut.…
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Somewhere Between Sleep and a Séance: Outsideness Drops “…From What?”
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Freidrich$ and Azalias joined forces under a shared banner — and the result buries club…
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Izzy Skinner’s Chapter Six: The Art Pop EP Where Violin Finally Takes the Lead
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Izzy Skinner has released Chapter Six — a five-track art pop EP built around violin,…
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Mature, Honest, and Rocking: Valerio Montelatici Delivers a Masterclass with “Are we happy”
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Alternative rock in the 2020s has found itself in a position many genres can only…
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Field Day Review: Darren Black and Hamilton Gross Make a Case for the Stubbornness of Folk
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The “guitar plus fiddle” format has been holding its place in British folk for a…
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Guitars with the Density of a Well-Tailored Suit: By Million Wires Master the Slow Flex
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Geography in indie rock long ago lost its status as a mandatory parameter. A genre…
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Sixteen Doors Into the Neon Abyss: MOMARZ Builds a Full-Length Universe Where Most Artists Stop at the Doorway
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Most synthwave albums hold that geometry for five or six tracks before they start repeating…
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Dan Johnson Returns With Salt Cedar Rebels II — a Decade of Living, Compressed Into One Record
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Ten years is long enough for entire eras to rise and fall in country music.…
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Alive Again Is the Sound of Jon Valenzuela Playing on His Own Terms — All Seven Tracks of It
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Jon Valenzuela, a guitarist from Sydney, Australia, releases his debut full-length LP Alive Again —…
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Corner in Bloom — Tiny Apartment Review: A Debut Worth Paying Attention To
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Corner in Bloom have released their new album Tiny Apartment — nine tracks built around…
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Red Desert, Cosmic Spacecraft, and a Scoreboard Frozen Mid-Match: Welcome to “Bald Chewbacca at the World Cup”
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Bald Chewbacca has released “Bald Chewbacca at the World Cup“ — an experimental album in…
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Jake Dryzal — “Untogether”: Eight Diary Entries, One Coastline, a Folk Album That Found Its Own Shape
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Every musician has a folder. A folder that lives somewhere on a hard drive, in…
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Where the Ice Gleams Like Metal: The Matthew Shadley Band’s Seventh and Most Daring Hour
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The Matthew Shadley Band have released their seventh studio album, The Great Divide — ten…
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Chandler, Burroughs, and a Baritone in Cambodia: The Strange, Beautiful Logic of Robert Marleigh’s Needle on the Rim
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On March 27, 2026, the Camerado label releases Needle on the Rim across all platforms…
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Lo-Fi, Lotuses, and Late-Night Neon: Freidrich$ Delivers the Most Cinematic Hip-Hop Album of the Year
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Anime outgrew screens a long time ago. It seeped into fashion, into graphic design, into…
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Rust and Redemption: The Garage Gospel of Christo Sedgewick and The Fabulous Regrets
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Christo Sedgewick and The Fabulous Regrets have released their second album “The Lonesome Tender Hollow…
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Juliet Howland Drops a 12-Track Solo Folk Album Played, Written, and Sung Entirely by Herself
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Folk stopped being a countryside story a long time ago. It mutated, stratified, sent its…
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Van Jams Vol. 1: The Hooten Hallers Return With Their Seventh Full-Length
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Country rock is a genre that knows too much about itself. It remembers its roots…
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Saxophones, Gothic Candelabras, and a Fallen Angel: Inside Andy Smythe’s Wildest Album Yet
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Andy Smythe has released his eighth studio album, Quiet Revolution — a continuation of the…
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Levy DeAndrade Built a Bridge Between Forró and Jazz. Ponta Pé (Live) Is the Sound of Walking Across It
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A seventh album. A live recording. A Brazilian who spent twenty years fusing forró with…
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“These Times Take Things” by Mission From Dog: Why This Self-Released Album Deserves Your Attention in March 2026
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Mission From Dog (Casey Hess) belongs to that breed of musicians the industry only remembers…
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Leather Over Glitter: How The Del-Viles Dragged Grunge Onto the Dance Floor
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What is grunge in 2026? Something behind glass at a museum. A flannel shirt on…
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Sonic Silhouette: Simon Talbot’s Never and the Courage of the Unfinished
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A painting on the wall of a brewery. A random visual impulse that triggered a…
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The Boy Who Wrapped Pain in Stardust: Jeremie Soyan’s Debut in Four Acts
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Rap has a visual codex: dark tones, heavy bass, leather seats, gold chains, cigar smoke,…
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The Fine Chairs Found the Soft Nerve Inside Garage Rock’s Leather Armor
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Rock has always divided men into those who wear leather and those who deserve it.…
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On Elegy for Euria, Classical Music Finally Learns How to Grieve Like a Goth
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Think it’s impossible to create gothic hits on classical instruments? Then you haven’t yet heard…
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In the Room Where Knowing Ends: Zenekar’s Dialogue Between Intellect and Instinct
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There is an old argument about what happens to a musician who knows too much.…
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Deborah Silver and the Count Basie Orchestra Prove That Rock Has Always Been Jazz’s Business
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A tribute album demands a concrete answer to a concrete question: why? The anniversary of…
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What the Fire Kept: James Beastly and the Weight of We Should Be Animals
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James Beastly knows how to build something that hits hard. The desire to reconnect — to…
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The Crown of Creation vs. The Regulatory Problem: ai12die Flips the Bible and Makes It Groove
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Humanity has spent millennia doing the same thing: recording itself. Hieroglyphs, manuscripts, novels, tweets —…
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Elise Trouw Collected What Men Said to Her and Turned It Into the Best Album of Her Career
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Irony is a capricious genre. Many people know how to use it; few truly master…
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Background Noise as Protagonist: silent collision’s Air Vent Lullabies Rewrites the Rules of Ambient Inspiration
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silent collision found inspiration where most musicians never even think to look — in the…
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Chamber Jazz at Its Most Honest: MAJA JAKU’s Blessed & Bewitched Earns Every Minute of Your Patience
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Jazz criticism has long developed a convenient way of talking about vocal albums — and…
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Vinyl Floor’s Balancing Act Asks How Far You Can Soften Rock Before It Loses Its Spine
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Rock has always been about breaking boundaries, but what happens when those boundaries begin to…
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EP 5: Rayhan Proves Toronto Rap Can Sound Like Anything If You’re Honest Enough
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Rayhan Jabbar sold drugs to pay for acting classes. It’s a detail so cinematic it…
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Jennifer Femme Avoids Jazz Clichés, Embraces Theatricality on Private Show
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Jennifer Femme has spent years navigating jazz circles as both a vocalist and instrumentalist –…
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The Rare Concept Album You’ll Actually Want to Replay: King Rooster’s Royal Decree
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A conceptual hip-hop album about power and the collapse of systems sounds ambitious, but King…
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Fools Parade by Tambyrlane: The Debut Album From Connecticut Scene Veterans Proves That Sincerity Stand the Test Of Time
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When Mike Molina openly declares “we proudly carry the banner of rock music’s greatest era…
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The One Album That Perfectly Captures What It Feels Like to Live in 2026—Cold War by Simon Talbot
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February 2026. Geopolitical tensions have reached a boiling point, and news feeds are rife with…
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The Audacity of Best Actress Calling Their Album “I Know It Sounds Bad” When It’s This Good!
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Very soon, on February 13th, the new band Best Actress will release their album with…
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Music For The Modern Home Made an Album That’s Simultaneously From 1965 and 2025
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Old furniture holds stories, and Music For The Modern Home apparently discovered theirs inside a…
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Hard To Be Human: Jacob Tell’s Voice Balances Ice and Volcano Across Blues Confessional
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Jacob Tell arrives with a peculiar premise: an entire album addressed to a single, unnamed…
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Brock Davis: Nothing Lasts Forever Album Review: A Rare Triumph of Sincerity Over Style
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Americana has long turned into a mummified genre. Somewhere between the third folk revival and…
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Fox Hill Road’s Tell the Tale: Six Songs About Falling Apart and Coming Back Together
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Six tracks about a marriage falling apart and stitching itself back together—sounds like material for…
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Inside the Fragile Architecture of Lauren Mian’s Off Script: A Debut Built on Starlight and Surrender
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Travel has long ceased to mean buying tickets and packing suitcases. Tourism has transformed into…
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Mt. Gribley Chronicles Three Years of Solo Parenting and Transatlantic Distance on Moss on the Stone
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Matt Jarrett, who records folk under the name Mt. Gribley, spent three years suspended between…
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Transitions by Tony – Grunge Meets Carnival Under the Northern Lights
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Therapists know things about the subconscious that others are even afraid to think about. Anthony…
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The Real Deal by The Noah Peterson Soul-Tet: A Love Letter to Blue Note That Never Left Texas
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Municipal arts funding in America is typically associated with experimental performances nobody voluntarily watches, or…
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On To Be Happy, Elizabeth Anne Announces Herself as an Artist Without Limits
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A debut release is always a major event for a musician, as this is when…
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JD Kucharik: Ease On Thru – Five Decades of Blues-Rock Mastery
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Blues-rock faded from the mainstream around 1974, enjoyed a brief revival in the nineties thanks…
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illo.trio Transforms Chamber Improvisation into a Psychedelic Soundtrack of Wandering Consciousness
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Jazz has long ceased to be simply a genre with a defined set of rules.…
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Sometimes Julie: Transition—The North San Diego Duo Starts Over After 12 Years
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Indie music in 2026 exists in a strange space between challenge and therapy. Monica Sorenson…
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fhae: life in cycle Review: Ambient Music for Accepting Change
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The experimental ambient-folk project fhae, created by Ellena Ramsay and based in Meanjin, combines ethereal,…
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Fillo’s Sonidos Mestizos: When Your Abuela’s Wedding Music Gets a Florida Glow-Up
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You know, there’s nothing more beautiful than Vals Venezolano in a modern sound. This has…
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Exclusive! DRAMATIST’s Wasting Words: The Album That Debuted at Wacken and Will Change Everything in 2026
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A debut without the right to error—such luxury is available to few. DRAMATIST chose Wacken…
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The Future According to Piergiorgio Corallo: Uneven, Diverse, and Defiantly Human
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The question of whether one can predict the shape of the future without mystical abilities…
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The Debut Album by Heisenberg Principle “Icarus” Is Here! I’ve Been Listening To It Non-Stop, and I Have a Lot To Say!
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I think you’re familiar with the feeling when you’ve been following a musician for a…
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Summer Colds Makes Grunge Sound Hopeful on the New Album Missing Out
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Nic McNamara’s father’s Johannesburg studio became his first musical education. Lucky Dube recorded there, Ladysmith…
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Thirteen Fragments, One Paradox: Deconstructing The Beginning of Eternity by Archangel One
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Archangel One exists in the musical space as a phantom—a figure devoid of biography, media…
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The Songs We Leave Behind: Jeff Thomas’s Final Gift to the World
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Fifteen years between albums is an entire era. Children grow up, cities change, people pass…
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One Song at a Time: Gregory McLoughlin and the Radical Act of Human Contact
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Do you feel a certain irony in the fact that a musician who spent years…
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Phantom Pat Maps the Many Faces of Night Across 11 Cinematic Tracks
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You know how all the facets of night can easily unfold across 11 tracks? That’s…
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The Dangerous, Unpredictable Electronic Music Returns: ShiShi’s Blood Tape Reviewed
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You know how the otherworldly is closer than it seems? And how music can convey…
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Between the Highway and the Stars: Trans Atlantic J. and the New Coordinates of Sound
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Psychedelic rock has long ceased to be a monolithic genre. For decades, musicians have been…
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Bailey Grey Bet Everything on Authenticity—And Won! Love It All Shows Why That Matters
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In the career of any musician, there comes a moment when one must choose between…
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Jon-Olov Woxlin’s One-way Ticket from Earth: A Scandinavian Kitchen Becomes Hallowed Country Ground
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When a Swedish musician sits down to record American country music in his own kitchen…
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CO-ED DORMS: Post-Punk Dressed in Formal Wear, Then Dragged Through Broken Glass
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Violin occupies rare air in rock music. Warren Ellis turned his bow into prophecy with…
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Jung Stratmann Quartet Finally Recorded What They’ve Been Playing for Years: In-Depth Review of the New Album
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When Sujae Jung and Wolf Robert Stratmann were studying at The New School in Manhattan,…
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Three Years in the Making, Lunar Lock’s Debut Shows a Band Learning to Question Its Influences
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Cold wave in 2025 exists in a strange temporal paradox. A genre born in the…
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AMERICAN DREAMERS, Vol. 3: Carver Jones Concludes His Trilogy With More Questions Than Answers
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The romance of abandoning stability for art continues to work as a narrative, although in…
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Drowning in Reverb: Steven Bonaventure’s ‘Delirium’ and the Aesthetics of Fog
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An EP of four tracks – a format Steven Bonaventure approached deliberately while recording Delirium…
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A Voice That Knows How to Hold Loss and Light at Once: Inside Marilyn Hucek’s Debut Album
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Marilyn Hucek feels. You can hear it from the first bars, though you understand it…
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Future Analog Spins the Disco Ball Into 2025 on Hope, Vol. 2
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Paul Aston, working under the pseudonym Future Analog, belongs to a generation of musicians for…
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On Debut ICHI, UZU Delivers Hard Rock as Liturgy for a Blackened Sun
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Rock music has long exhausted its vocabulary of revelations, truly. Every attempt to invoke the…
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Shani Weiss – All About Life: An Intimate Examination of Human Relationships at the Crossroads of Confession and Artistic Statement
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Turning forty is a strange threshold for a musician. Too early for summative statements, too…
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ØRBITA: Gravity Review: A Flawless Trip to a Future That Already Happened
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Balinese palms bow under the weight of invisible waves. Frangipani exudes a fragrance impossible to…
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On 21 grammi, Giuseppe Cucè Measures the Immeasurable Weight of the Soul
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There’s an old legend born from Duncan MacDougall’s 1907 experiment: the soul weighs 21 grams.…
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Nada UV: Vaporwave and Alien Vintage Without the Irony
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No one has yet learned to play with music, turning it inside out, the way…
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Me Then You: Ehson Hashemian Makes the Case That Love Conquers All, One Track at a Time
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What do you do when the world is falling apart? This question has been asked…
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Defiance and Avant-Garde in Pop Music: A Sound Revolution with Marina Laduda’s Debut Album ‘Hot Mess’
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Twenty years old—an age when identity becomes a battlefield. When every decision feels final, emotions—well,…
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Last Relapse: The Return of Psychedelic Trailblazers
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I remember how in the mid-2000s we all lived in some kind of intoxicating state…
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Got a Vinyl From Dar Stellabotta Directly, and It’s the First Time I’ve Heard a Cigar Box Guitar Sound This Good
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There’s a paradox in how we consume music today. Spotify’s algorithms analyze our preferences down…
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Simon Talbot and Peter Toussaint’s Simon Called Peter II: Layered, Improvised, and Unapologetically Excessive
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Simon Talbot & Peter Toussaint returns with Simon Called Peter II—a sequel to the original…
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Modest Tyler Explodes Genre Boundaries on “Okay(K) Presents: Modest Tyler”
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Words possess power. They can kill, they can resurrect, they can create a legend out…
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A Groundbreaking AI Remake of the Debut Album ‘American Split’ by Eddie Sing & The 31 Days Changes the Game’s Rules
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Two years later, musician Eddie Sing & The 31 Days returns with a remake of…
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Lux Griffith Is Creating Flowers on Scars—And Monsters Kinder Than People
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Cinema exists at the border between illusion and reality, and the best films know how…
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Erik Flaa Recorded Where ABBA Made Joy—He Brought the Opposite: Inside the Fog-Soaked Revelation of ‘What Is Not’
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When a musician disappears for seventeen years, either they’ve left the stage permanently, or they’re…
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The Irish Lassies Chart a Course Between Two Worlds on Immigration Stories
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Despite being together for just three years, The Irish Lassies have made a meteoric rise…
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The Story Behind ‘Next’: How Ali and the Wild Geese Turned Crisis Into Art
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Tragedy in life is a kind of threshold or boundary where life divides into before…

