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Izzy Reign Mixes Dance, Electro, Industrial, And Art Pop Into A Satisfying Sonic Cocktail On Self-Titled Debut

It seems we’ve been talking about Izzy Reign a LOT over in RNRF land with many a shared social media post before launching a brand new column last October called “Spooky SZN Sounds” more or less with the sole purpose of covering IR’s slew of covers around the season before culminating with coverage of original […]

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Other Brother Darryl Live Up To The Hype On Vibrant Alterna-Country Debut LP Roll Shine Roll

There’s a reason why Boston’s Other Brother Darryl made it as far as they did in the 2024 Rock & Roll Rumble despite being the lone Country-adjacent artist across the massive line up. And there’s a reason why OBD won the Boston Music Award for “Country Artist of the Year” [...]

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Year Of The Cobra Delivers Fresh Fuzzed Out Doom On First New Album In Almost Six Years

We managed to miss covering not one, but TWO, releases from Slower featuring vocalist/bassist Amy Tung Barrysmith. So, in regards to new music from Amy going forward, we vow this: NEVER AGAIN! Unless there’s a month where ATB releases, like, 4 different projects in which case we’ll try really hard [...]

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Canyons and Locusts Come With The Concept On Alternative Americana Of The Goal Gigolo

We know there’s definitely not another MA/AZ hybrid outfit out there making the kind of modern Alternative Americana the way that Canyons and Locusts do. And we’re pretty sure there’s not an artist as prolific right now as CaD either especially with a concept album rearing to go barely a [...]

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Jason Bieler and the Baron Von Bielski Orchestra Bring The Best For Modern Prog/Rawk Odyssey On The Escapologist

Some of the best reviews, we think, are spurned on by songs or sounds that immediately compel us to dive in with our notes and first impressions and then go back and try and formulate coherent thoughts from all the initial word vomit. If we had been writing back in [...]

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Ghost On TV Fuse Indie Rawk Aesthetic With Classic Trip-Hop Vibes For Unforgettable Electro LP Mister Silence

There’s records out there that, when a single or two gets released and they’re just so fantastic right off the bat, it becomes a little suspect. Mostly because back in the days before instant grat releases and being able to hear something in its’ entirety right away some artists/labels/management would [...]

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Singles! Ceremony Shadows, “Prey”

By the time second single “Reclaim” landed in our inbox we were 99.9% sure that whatever came next from Portland, Oregon’s Ceremony Shadows was similarly destined for greatness/great things. Now, having heard both the upcoming new single “Prey” AND debut full-length Ascension (Due in March), we can confidently proclaim that [...]

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