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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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Salem Supahgroup TENSION SCALE Delve Into Suburban Paranoia With The ‘Burbs-inspired debut It’s Not Them

Let it be known that we LOVE the exquisite cinematic experience that is Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs. Let it also be know that if you’re a new artist (Well, newish in this case, but we’ll get to that…) and you’re bursting onto the scene with The ‘Burbs as your backdrop/aesthetic/inspiration [...]

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Singles! Luxury Deathtrap, “By A Thread”

We love it when revisiting an artist with new material on the horizon causes a feeling that’s the sonic equivalent of reuniting with an old friend after an extended period without missing a beat. And that’s definitely the feels we felt when checking back in on Luxury Deathtrap ahead of [...]

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16VOLT Return To Remind Y’all How To Do Industrial/Electro Proper On More Of Less

16Volt is a unique animal. Where the Industrial/Electro crowd is generally known for staying on the cutting edge of sounds within genres, 16Volt tend to dwell in this kind of shadow zone outside of the norm where their music is inherently timeless. Meaning, unlike many of their peers with dated [...]

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Black Magnet Hit That Early ’90’s Industrial Sweet Spot With Vibrantly Vicious Megamantra

The way we see it, 2025 has produced some of the best Electro/Industrial music to date. You have Pixel Grip and Replicant on one end of the spectrum offering unique, stellar takes in the Darkwave/Electro genres while on the other you’ve got the return of legends like 16VOLT (Their first [...]

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Singles! Casket Rats, “Whiskey Queen”

We’d say that you’re missing out if you haven’t seen Boston’s Casket Rats live in the wild yet but after hearing new single “Whiskey Queen” we’d also go so far as to say that this is as pretty close to the live experience you might get from a recorded venture [...]

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Happy Little Clouds Enter Album Of The Year Fray On Vibrant, Vital Embers

When it comes to Happy Little Clouds, the picture that’s been painted with all the singles released (Dating all the way back to February of 2024 with “The Emperor’s Song”) up until now has been a compelling one… so it should come as little surprise that we were STOKED the [...]

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