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25 in ’25: A List Of (Mostly) 25 Albums That Were Listened To Over And Over And Over Some More In The RNRF Offices To Distract From The Outside World In 2025.

2025 was a weird year personally for us and even weirder music-wise! We thought we had our Top 5 of the year locked down by June then something rolled up to our digital inbox in late summer and completely floored us/threw off the early ending we thought we had for this list (Hell, we’re STILL […]

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Girl with a Hawk Persist With A Purpose On The Uplifting Rawk Of keep ‘er lit

Persistence is probably the best word to describe the sound that the latest release from Girl with a Hawk, keep ‘er lit, exemplifies as a whole. Like a musical map of 2023 filled with tales that detail easily some of Girl with a Hawk’s highest of high’s and lowest of [...]

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Singles! Disconnected Souls, “Last Christmas”

Maybe we’re getting soft in our old age or maybe Xmas music is actually getting better??? Nahhhh… that can’t be it. How about we go with this: The artists that are making the Xmas music, whether originals or covers, are getting better. Which brings us to Disconnected Souls. We know! [...]

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The Lion’s Daughter Serve Up A High Holy Helluva Haunting Heavy Good Time With Bath House

While working on a recent review by an artist that starts with “L” we kept finding that, following the conclusion of that album, we were getting reintroduced to the majesty of The Lion’s Daughter and their 2021 classic Skin Show. Being the curious type, we had an “Oh! We haven’t [...]

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Singles! SWTEVL, “Monochrome”

Flexing their genre-crossing chops in anticipation of their upcoming debut double album (Very Truly Yours, arriving on December 15th), SWTEVL unveil another side of the new joint from Tairrie B. and Mick Murphy that’s not so much a departure from first single “Hellzapoppin’” (Read our review of that here) as [...]

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Singles! Hammered Saint, “Steal The Show”

We’ve been wanting to write about Boston’s Hammered Saint for some time now and couldn’t pass up this perfect storm of timing with a recently released single dropping just as we’re revving up our coverage for the last Bandcamp Friday of 2023!

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Singles! Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight, “Safehouse”

Getting dense in the world of Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight to end the year by doubling down on the sonic swag that the band regularly exudes, “Safehouse” is yet another bright light in the burgeoning catalog from the Boston-based outfit.

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