Seven years. That’s how long it’s been since The Fury of Almost exploded onto the scene like a flaming dumpster rolling downhill, fueled by Detroit street grime and pure, unfiltered spite. Seven years of silence. Seven years of waiting, wondering was Marcus: the Apex Predator! just another underground rock ghost story? Another cautionary tale of […]
Every so often, an EP comes along that just “becomes” a story. Not in the lazy, “let’s throw in some skits and call it a concept album” way, but in the way that grips you by the collar and drags you headfirst into a fully realized world. NOSTALGIA does exactly that. It doesn’t just evoke
There are two types of bands in this world; those who make tight, focused albums with a clear sense of purpose and those who make 18-track double LPs because they physically cannot stop themselves from making music. Road Movie Dream is what happens when a band sets out to record a single album over a
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ZZ Ward has always been kind of a blues artist, but she’s also kind of been a rock artist and kind of a pop artist all throughout her career. As of now, well, that’s over… because Liberation is the sound of ZZ Ward finally giving up on trying to be palatable and instead deciding to
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Protected: Lonely Boy makes you dance and question your life choices at the same time. Read More »
AI makes diss tracks now? Let’s talk about Gnominem (Satirical Diss) by Sasha Prime. This is a track that exists at the strange intersection of battle rap, artificial intelligence, and what I can only assume is some kind of elaborate performance art. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if a computer tried to start
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Hip-hop has always been a genre of bravado. Arguably from the peak of Run DMC, the first big stars and the forefathers of hip-hop in general, hip-hop has been defined by flexing over your lyrical skills over head-bumping beats. If you’re a killer MC, you can go far. Enter Gemspit Exquisite. This is a scrappy
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Xavior Black is not here to make music for easy listening. On his newest release, Meditations & Dreams is a collection of tracks that simply refuses to sit quietly in the background—it’s here to get right up in your face, maybe shake your shoulders a bit as the lush instrumentation perks your ears up and
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I Dont Do Drugs, I Am Drugs. Bold statement for a project title. Then again, rapper Soch doesn’t really come off like anything but bold. A cold-rhymed rapper with a clear influence from people in the Griselda camp such as Benny the Butcher, this eight-track project makes a case for how music can be more
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Eccentricity goes a long way to make an artist stand out, and whether that comes in the way of sheer rawness, charm and candor coming together or just sheer mastery in one’s performance, there is always a form of eccentricity that I appreciate first and foremost. Enter Chymes, an Australian alternative pop artist who has
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