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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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Singles! n0trixx, “Revenge On God”

We’re pretty sure that you’ve never heard anything like n0trixx before because we’ve never heard anything like n0trixx before! And you could be forgiven for missing out unless a hybrid of Trap, Alternative, Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop and Metal is your thing and if that’s the case then shame on you for [...]

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Singles! Leila Lamb, “He Belongs To Me”

Believe it or not, this is the second single/video we’ve covered in the last six months or so where a performer is wearing a dog mask of some sort and all we’ve got to say on that is that some reviewers (Us.) are just truly blessed! Anyway, we’re here today [...]

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Tops Of ’25: Men Without Hats, On The Moon

Sure, the world might be going to shit but the fact that we have some BRAND NEW Men Without Hats music to experience together (And separately, that we get to review) means that maybe things ain’t all that bad? Or, at the very least, Ivan Doroschuk and fam/friends, have created [...]

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Tops Of ’25: VOWWS I’ll fill your house with an army

You ever get an advance for one of your most anticipated releases months in advance, make a boatload of nonsensical observations initially, move onto the next shiny thing in the moment, then have an “OH shit!” moment when you realize that record you’ve had for some time is about to [...]

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Tops Of ’25: Hunting Accidents, Gifts|Choices|Poisons

What if you took all the best opening tracks/instrumental intros from all the greatest Rawk albums ever, huddled them together under one roof, then unleashed it into the world? That’s kind of the vibe we’re getting from Hunting Accidents and their epic new opus Gifts|Choices|Poisons.

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Tops Of ’25: Neverless.am, The Quiet Room

There was a reason we swore that the Neverless.am singles released in 2024 would bookend our local best of playlist (Hear it here if you missed it) and definitely a reason that the record that those tracks (“Can’t Let Go”, “Will I Ever?”) would eventually end up on was one [...]

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