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Future Finds: The Rock And Roll Fables Guide To (Some Of) What’s On The Way Locally In 2026

Of the four major/mega end of the year lists we put together (2 separate 2025 recaps/2 separate 2026 previews), the local 2026 one is hand’s down the easiest. Or so we thought. We don’t do rankings here and it’s way more loose but, par for course with our batting average (Look, kids! It’s sportsball references!), […]

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Singles! Soft Skies Inc, “The Point”

Symphonic, Scintillating, Sultry at times, and ever so Immediate is “The Point”, the latest single from Philly’s own Soft Skies Inc. A nifty in-your-face dab of modern Alternative that’s a polyamorous pairing of Garbage-style Electro Pop, early ’80’s Synth-heavy Post-Punk acts like Wall Of Voodoo (That hypnotic twang that Ryan [...]

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Singles! K3YP4RTY, “The Countdown”

We’re at the point of the K3YP4RTY story currently where there’s just no need for comparison. Maybe there was previously for those unfamiliar when “Worship My Body” or, most recently, “Do Not Misbehave” arrived on the scene but in the right now what’s to come simply “sounds like K3YP4RTY”! And [...]

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Rat City Rockers Gets To The Nitty Gritty, Hones In On Casket Rats’ Raucous Rawk Core

One of the best things about this “job” (Because is it really a job if you love what you do???) is when we come across a band in the wild, become a fan, then find out they fall under the umbrella of some cool PR people we’re already friendly with [...]

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Singles! Jennifer Tefft & The Strange, “Salt And The Sea”

One of the cool things about, ahem, covering a cover song is when we come across one that we’re not very familiar with in the first place giving us essentially two new tracks to check out. That happened recently when Jennifer Tefft & The Strange’s version of “Salt And The [...]

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The Welcoming Committee Welcome YOU To The Kookier Side Of Cave With Wickedly Wonderful Debut Release

Around these parts (Obviously, the RNRF offices), The Welcoming Committee is what one would refer to as a “spoiler”. Or maybe, more accurately, a “disrupter”! You see, we had a whole slate of posts (mostly) ready to go (or at least be worked on) when TWC’s debut EP came across [...]

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Singles! Arrows Of Athena, “Abandoned Love”

In our header for the review of The Ghost Archives, the debut LP from Arrows Of Athena, we said what the Boston duo were doing in Alt-Rawk was a renaissance and it looks like that movement won’t be over anytime soon if new single “Abandoned Love” is any indication! Holy [...]

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