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Singles! MY RUIN, “The Audacity”

The pairing of vocalist extraordinaire Tairrie B and multi-instrumentalist Mick Murphy has been on a legendary run lately. Returning following some time away from the grind in 2020 with the SWTEVL project which culminated in a slew of singles and a massive full-length in late 2023, the Murphy’s are taking it back to the beginning […]

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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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Spooky SZN Sounds: Sacred Skin, Born In Fire

We had to do it. We had to! You listen to the kind Darkwave-tinged Electro that Sacred Skin is making and tell us it doesn’t somewhat fit under the “Spooky SZN Sounds” banner! Also, we were already late to the Sacred Skin party when we came across them early in [...]

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Pleasure Wheel Mix ’70’s-Style Doom And Psychedelia With AlternaGrunge On The World Tour Is Ruined

We will never say “No!” to adding some new Rawk to the accumulated oeuvre that takes up so much digital space across multiple devices in the RNRF offices. And what’s that? New Rawk that’s local to boot?!? Sign. Us. Up. Especially when it comes in the form of The World [...]

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Singles! Tysk Tysk Task, “Toadstool”

Tysk Tysk Task make the kind of music that you long for. From the moment we first dove into sophomore LP You’re Sorry More we heard the kind of music that hits in such a way so that when it finished we couldn’t help but restart from the beginning to [...]

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Singles! The Chelsea Curve, “Rally ‘Round”

Let’s make a deal with y’all: We will stop covering The Chelsea Curve in these pages when The Chelsea Curve stops making music worth covering. Which, we guess, is kind of a rigged deal as we don’t foresee that happening anytime soon (Or ever?) especially if their latest single, “Rally [...]

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