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Carissa Johnson Unveils L’Heure Bleue, After Dark, Gets Deluxe With Expanded Edition Of Blue Hour

You can put reissues on your year end list even if it’s for a record that’s two years old, right? Because we didn’t get the opportunity to review the regular edition of Blue Hour when it originally arrived in November of 2021 and kinda wanna make it known that it [...]

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Messiahvore Dig Deep In The Desert Sludge With Transverse

Spilling out of the sonic carnage that 2021’s self-titled debut wraought, Denver’s Messiahvore pick up the pieces and the pace with a decidedly more potent offering that shatters expectations and breaks the curse of the dreaded “sophomore slump” with the eight tracks of pure, unfiltered Rawk that make up Transverse.

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Travels With Brindle Bring Some Ukulele-Driven Pop To The People On Notes From Undergrad

We try to be as musically diverse as (in)humanly possible with our small operation but mostly it comes down to picking stuff to promote that speaks to us. More often than not that “stuff” flies somewhere under the banner of HEAVY in various forms with a similar emphasis on the [...]

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Only Child Kicks Off Summer With Some Poignant Pop On Srs One

In this day and age, the mark of a really great artist is to genuinely stand out from the rest of the noise that’s being pumped out at yer earholes on the daily. Boston’s Only Child is one such artist with a unique sound and an even more unique voice [...]

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Eddie Japan Masterfully Weave An Epic Aural Story On Ambitious Pop Fiction

We have a lot of those “What were we thinking???” moments over in RNRF land regarding missed opportunities with new releases. Whether it’s the dreaded “too many tabs open” problem causing a release to get lost in a sea of promos or just a matter of running out of time [...]

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Swivel Grinds Out The Nu-Grunge, Goes Gigantic on Glowing Self-Titled Release

If you’re a child of the ’90’s… or at least had your musical awakening around the middle of that decade, how can you not love the recent resurgence of Grunge? Especially when it’s got artists like Swivel leading the new revolution.

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