Picture this. Ripped jeans, power suit, two different worlds crashing into one moment that feels too vivid to be accidental. That’s the exact moment when Jason McKee of Reetoxa decided that the only way to keep the memory alive is to make it into a song. And glad he did, because The Lisa Song sounds […]
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Hearing Lipsilk and there latest offering Bunk Notes feels like finding a crumpled receipt in an old jacket and realizing it’s a map to somewhere you forgot you loved. It’s the kind of indie rock that feels lived in and frayed around the edges like a favorite sweater because there’s a grit to the production that
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There is a particular kind of electricity that only happens when a basement band realizes they are actually a riot in the making and that heat is exactly what Kombucha bottled on their debut title track Dude, Spiral!. It starts with a reckless urgency that feels like a midnight sprint through the narrow streets of
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The smell of burning rubber and stale gas station coffee always feels like a promise when you’re leaving a town that never wanted you to stay and CinderKiss finds the perfect rhythm for that midnight getaway on Look Back. It starts with a jolt of electricity that feels like turning the key in a beat-up
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The air in a basement bar at two in the morning smells like sweat and spilled lager and that specific brand of bad decisions that feels like absolute genius until the sun comes up. DriftKin knows this feeling better than anyone on their new single NoseDive. It starts with a serrated guitar riff that feels
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Rumour Den have cracked the code of the difficult second single with Part Of the Problem by leaning into a kind of high-octane melancholy that feels both classic and dangerously fresh. There is a specific kind of magic that happens when a band stops focusing on proving their volume and starts focusing on the hooks
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The headlights cut through the fog on a desolate stretch of highway and Jcutterwind provides the perfect soundtrack with the new track over. It feels like a transmission from a basement studio where the ghost of early Deftones still haunts the mixing desk and there is a weight here that feels earned because the music refuses to
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There is a specific kind of electricity that hums through a fender stratocaster before the first chord even rings out and Grant Morriss knows exactly how to weaponize that static on his latest offering The Bit That Breaks. It starts with a nervous twitch of percussion but before you can settle into the rhythm a
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Robyn M’s Overmorrow hits like a heavy wave of nostalgia that you didn’t know you were missing until the first distorted chord rings out. It’s got that thick and fuzzy guitar sound that reminds me of sitting in a basement in 1994 even though the artist behind it wasn’t even born yet. The track manages
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There is a startling heat that radiates from the frost of a Montreal winter when Sum and Substance drops a track as heavy as Mighty. It arrived on Valentine’s Day but skipped the hollow romance for a jagged and brilliant look at the human ego and the way we try to build monuments out of sand. I remember