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Kit Orion Refreshes Peak ’90’s Trip-Hop, Elevates Modern Electro On Introspective Bottle Grin

The press release for the upcoming debut full-length from Kit Orion (AKA Cambridge singer/songwriter/DJ/producer Caitlyn O’Brien) describes Bottle Grin as “Electronic-Pop Euphoria” and upon listening through the 13-track magnum opus we’d be inclined to agree.

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BERRIES Tap Into The 2000’s, Mix It With Desert Rawk/Pop Hybrid On Unforgettable Self-Titled Sophomore Outing

BERRIES self-titled 2nd full-length is a transcendent throwback that culls all that you loved from the mid-aughts European explosion which brought the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, We Are Scientists, and Arctic Monkeys into the collective consciousness, combines it with Desert Rawk, and tops it off with a hearty [...]

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The Only Humans Concoct The Perfect Concept Record For Your Town With It’s a Beautiful Night, I Think I’ll Disappear Forever

In the vein of American Idiot or The Black Parade crossed with the Dracula rock opera with puppets from Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Queen’s A Kind Of Magic (The soundtrack for Highlander if you didn’t already know) comes a concept album about life, love, and when to listen and when [...]

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Jerry Cantrell Cranks It Up On Heavy Guitar-Driven, Guest-Filled I Want Blood

With Alice I Chains in hibernation currently fans have been graced with a a bevy of William DuVall-related material (New solo record, Neon Christ compilation, producer for Chained Saint’s latest) as well as not one, but now TWO new Jerry Cantrell solo releases! Following 2021’s Brighten, Cantrell is back with [...]

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Lucia Cifarelli Leads On Lush Career-Defining Solo Outing No God Here

The great thing about new records as a reviewer is that it forces you to go back to older works by the artist not so much to use as a comparison to the now but more of a reference and to gauge the sonic evolution. And sometimes you rediscover a [...]

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Spooky SZN Sounds: VOSH

VOSH, where have you been all our life?!?! VOSH is the kind of artist where we’re definitely both relieved and excited to have finally come across but also one that makes us feel dumb for not being in the know sooner. But, y’know what? With the kinds of sounds that [...]

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