Bobby Pickett’s spooky 1962 classic Monster Mash is a sure sign to bring out the carved pumpkins, drape those cobwebs, and let the Halloween season begin. It has become a staple, bringing a familiar dose of spooky fun whenever October rolls around. For Sheldon Mashugana, this is such a perfect excuse to revisit the classic
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Covering a classic sounds easy until you remember everyone’s already heard it before. That’s what makes it a double-edged sword: listeners may love the familiarity, but comparisons to previous versions are almost inevitable. Yet Stephani Ezatoff’s take on Elvis Presley’s “Run On” has a way of pulling you out of those comparisons. Stephani Ezatoff is
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Translucent Veil is a self-titled album featuring six tracks that explore late-’60s and early-’70s psychedelic rock and hard-rock influences. Likewise, bands like Hotel Books, Two Door Cinema Club, and The Maine occupy a similar branch of the musical landscape to the one Translucent Veil sits in. Even so, the band seemed particularly interested in forming
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There’s something so compelling about Plain Drifter’s latest release, Cracks in the Mirror. It sounds good, obviously. The guitars bite, the melodies know exactly how to make you stay. But underneath all that is something that is harder to fake: vulnerability. The kind of vulnerability that a lot of rock records seem to have forgotten
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Everyone can talk about burnout and urban anxiety. Yet somehow, only a few make space for the idea that you don’t have to figure it all out just yet. That’s the kind of comfort you’ll find in fernvie’s newest single, Dito Muna Tayo sa Pagitan. It feels exceptionally fitting for the Manila-based band fernvie to
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Credit: Original Painting by Perri Neri There’s a very particular type of optimism that can only be sustained after so much of it has been exhausted. “MIRROR BALL,” Ryan James Monroe‘s new glam-rock single, is more or less a prayer to the notion that the years somehow make you less appealing. The track reimagines the
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Grief is one of those feelings that seems impossible to put into words without making it sound bigger or smaller than it really is. Somehow, Starboard to Sunset finds its own way to navigate it with their latest single, Without You Here. That ability to express something as deeply personal as grief feels fitting for
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Once in a while, you’ll come across records like You’ll Talk About It! by Lyons Lane, where every track feels like it has something to say. There’s no obvious weak link here, just one damn good song after another. And maybe it’s because the five-piece band from Michigan knows exactly how to make old-school influences
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Once in a while, there are records you stumble upon that let you be a little weird, a little hopeful, and a little less afraid of not having everything figured out. Today, it’s Reetoxa’s latest EP, Double A Side 2 (Akaroa / Erica And The Stars). Melbourne’s Reetoxa is fronted by Jason McKee, who spent
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Rock doesn’t always need volume to prove a point. Sometimes all it needs are fuzzy guitars, rough vocals, and a good story to picture a whole life behind every track. That’s exactly what Lyndo Jaco gives in his latest EP, “3”. Somewhere in Happy Valley, South Australia, Lyndo Jaco is busy making rock the old-fashioned
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