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Singles! Flickerstick, “Your Heart is a Fortress”

We’re going to just stop declaring publicly what our 2025 “Album of the Year” is because every time we think we have it figured out something new and unexpected comes along. For those keeping score, so far it’s been Pixel Grip to Greet Death to Crippling Alcoholism (With a hearty helping of Friendship Commanders and […]

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Singles! Bill Leeb, “Terror Forms (Feat. ACTORS)”

When one has as unique a voice as the one Industrial/Electro legend Bill Leeb has, you’d think it’d be difficult to discern one project from another. But that’s not the case with Leeb who somehow manages to be a musical metamorph on the regular during his day job in Front [...]

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Crapulet Fest: An RNRF Op-Ed (Or “How I Didn’t Spend Last Weekend”)

To this day, just over 30 years into my concert-going career so far, I still remember the first one pretty perfectly. I remember the weird smell emanating from the parking lot (I believe they call it “marijuana”) as my sister and I along with a family friend who drove us [...]

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Singles! Parlour Bells, “Knight Owl”

We said that Goddamn Glenn is a “goddamn revelation” in our review of Looking Glass War’s latest single (“See You In Hell, Liberty Bell”, which you can read all about here) and honestly? The upcoming single from another outfit Goddamn Glenn fronts, Parlour Bells, is not looking to dissuade us [...]

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RNRF X Capulet Fest: Local Look, Major Moment

Yaye fellow Massholes! Or not Massholes if they don’t prefer that term (We do, for the record). Anyway, unless we missed something in our research, we think that Major Moment is the only Boston-based/MA band on the Capulet Fest 2024 bill so if you’re making the trek to Thompson Speedway [...]

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Singles! Lovina Falls, “Tragedy”

We suspect that many a music fan (Us included) slept on the subtle emergence of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Valerie Forgione’s post-Mistle Thrush outfit Lovina Falls and their stunning debut Calculating the Angle of our Descent which arrived in the spring of ’23. Since then, though, the band seem to be quietly building [...]

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RNRF X Capulet Fest: Local Look, Life In Your Way

Manchester, CT’s Life In Your Way is practically a staple in the New England heavy scene with a robust body of work already on call to ignite the crowds when they take the Capulet Stage as part of Day 1 of the 2024 Capulet Fest happening at Thompson Speedway Motorsports [...]

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