Track Review

Jack Grisham Reclaims the Crown With a Masterful Collision of Punk Grit and Melodic Darkness

Pieces of the Sun by Jack Grisham and the Life Undone feels like a gasoline-soaked match dropped into a pool of late-night reflection and the track bursts into existence with a grit that only forty years in the trenches can provide. Grisham hasn’t lost an ounce of that menacing charisma that defined TSOL but here it is

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A High-Voltage Dual-Vocal Masterstroke That Reinvigorates Emo Tradition

The golden age of pop-punk always thrived on the friction between two voices and Used to Be Valentines has tapped into that specific electric current on their latest track Don’t Call Me Baby. It feels like catching a lightning bolt in a glass jar because the transition from a solo project to this explosive dual-vocal powerhouse brings

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Arctic Wave’s “Roll Together” Is A Funk-Laced Love Song Done Right

Trying a new genre can easily fall apart in the wrong hands, but Arctic Wave never fails to deliver. Because the most amazing thing about their newly released single, “Roll Together” is how natural they are in groove. Which leads us to a question: why is an alternative band so good with funk? Roll Together

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Reetoxa’s “The Lisa Song” Plays Exactly Like A Coming-Of-Age Indie Romance Film

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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Jcutterwind Finds Beauty in the Distortion on the Crushing New Single ‘Over’

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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