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Damndest Deliver Layered Modern Alternative Classics Across Debut LP What Did We Expect?

The Boston Music Scene is looking especially bright especially if the stuff we’re hearing barely 2 weeks into a new year is any indication of what’s on the horizon. The “stuff” in question today comes from Boston Alternative Rawk maestros Timothy O’Keefe (Vocals/Guitars) and Michael Taggart (Guitars/Bass), who together make up Damndest, and their debut […]

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slo-anne Channel Loneliness, Loss And Grief Into New Batch Of Rousing Rawk Anthems On cubs scout

Does it get any better than starting off a new year with a brand new release from slo-anne? We think not. Except for all those other acts who have to compete with such a stunning standard being set this early on in 2026!

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Kreator Celebrate A Sweet 16(th Studio Album) With 2026’s First Must-Have Metal Record Krushers Of The World

Look, we already know that 2026 is bringing the final Megadeth record before they hang it up for good and that Anthrax is finally ready to release their follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings… but we think your favorite Thrash record of the year is already here. Because in just [...]

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Ceremony Shadows Kick Off 2026 With Smashing New Mini-EP, Inclusion On This Year’s Verboden Festival

Ceremony Shadows kicked off 2025 with single “Reclaim” leading into their debut LP Ascension and while we’re not sure if there’s a whole other album on the way just yet we do know that it seems like CS is starting this new year in a similar fashion with not only [...]

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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 [...]

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Singles! Drive-Thru Facelift, “Control/Call Him Daddy”

Pitch us an artist that’s not only in one of our most favorite genres (Industrial!) but also from one of, if not our, favorite places (Um, Boston should be the obvious answer here) and it’s pretty much guaranteed we’ll clear some headspace at the least to dive in. It, of [...]

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Osis Fuse Post-Punk With Classic Orange County And DC Styles For A Fun And Frenetic Collection Of Songs On New EP

OC/DC was what we thought Osis was called… but as it turns out it’s a sound, a movement, a feeling! And if Boston’s Osis is the sound of that feeling then the feeling is raw, unbridled modern Punk Rawk raucousness. Or, if you want to be literal about it all, [...]

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