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Show Review: MX LONELY (The DLC, 3/30/2026)
Towards the end of their full U.S. tour supporting the release of their recent album ALL MONSTERS, MX LONELY stopped by The DLC in Salt Lake City to play their…
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La Sécurité – “Snack City”
Art-punk La Sécurité from Montreal has released “Snack City,” an upbeat track dedicated to snacks. The quintet came up with the song while on the road, turning into a game…
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Bloodworm – “Alone In Your Garden”
Bloodworm from Nottingham has released “Alone In Your Garden,” a moody track inspired by fall and folklore. The alternative post-punk trio – George Curtis on vocals/guitar, Euan Stevens on drums,…
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Outlaw Cartier – “lil runaway”
Outlaw Cartier, a new project from the artist formerly known as Chxrles, has released their debut single “lil runaway.” The Philadelphia-based artist blends modern hip-hop with the brooding textures of…
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MX LONELY – “Big Hips”
MX LONELY has returned with “Big Hips,” a moody and cathartic single ahead of their debut album which will be out early next year. The Brooklyn band’s laid-back style makes…
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Team Trust – Treat Box
Austin’s Team Trust has released their debut album, Treat Box, a collection of unpredictable art-punk songs that are fun and fresh, weird yet contained. The band expertly chooses moments to…
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American Lips – On Strike!
American Lips has returned with their sophomore album, On Strike!, eight years after the release of their debut LP, Kiss The Void. The Montréal/Los Angeles trio channel an inferno of…
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Sex Mask – “Cold”
Sex Mask from Melbourne has released another indie-punk-meets-post-punk single titled “Cold,” a song about obsession, love, and destructive impulses. The pulsing bass guitar on the track drives home a sense…
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Cmdr Cody – “Love Was Gone”
Cmdr Cody is a Texas-based solo artist who marries guitars with a variety of electronic instruments to create songs that are dance-y, yet grounded and purposeful. The third single from…
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Pictureplane – “Weeping Sky”
Pictureplane is the industrial “gothic hip-hop” project of Travis Egedy, a Brooklyn-based artist who splits his time between music, fashion, and art. His latest single, “Weeping Sky,” comes ahead of…
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Dean Blunt & Elias Rønnenfelt – “tears on his rings and chains”
There isn’t a selection of work Dean Blunt has put out that I haven’t considered a new-age masterpiece. One of my all time favorite duos from Blunt was a song…
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dust – “Drawbacks”
On the new single “Drawbacks” from Australian group dust, saxophones infiltrate the band’s post-punk angularity, creating a tension between brass-backed swagger and jagged guitar rhythms that feels both unexpected and…
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Pearly Drops – Pillow Face EP
Helsinki-based electronic-pop project Pearly Drops has released Pillow Face EP ahead of their third full-length album, The Voices Are Coming Back, out later this month. The album features the four…
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Humour – Learning Greek
On their debut album Learning Greek, Glasgow-based five-piece Humour deliver a striking offering of attitude- and emotion-heavy UK post-punk, with gritty touches of post-hardcore and emo. Comprised of vocalist Andreas Christodoulidis,…
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Rats Department – “Dirty Dancing”
Rats Department is a relatively new punk project based out of Los Angeles, formed by Slava Glushko and Gleb Bubnov in 2024. The duo released their debut single last year…
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Show Review: Lip Critic & MSPAINT (The DLC, 8/2/2025)
It’s becoming increasingly rare to see a touring band ignite a crowd with genuine energy – and even rarer when multiple bands on the same bill manage to do it.…
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Dumb Crush – What’s Gotten Into People?
While blending humor with genuine punk spirit, Dumb Crush harness nostalgia, social critique, and unfiltered energy into a package that leaves you both exhilarated and introspective.
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BIG SPECIAL – NATIONAL AVERAGE.
Somewhere in the sticky crosshairs of punk, hip-hop, funk, and indie rock, lie London-based duo BIG SPECIAL, who have just released NATIONAL AVERAGE., their second full-length album.
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Dog Race – Return The Day EP
Dog Race is a five-piece band from Bedford and London that brings new life to dark wave and gothic dance music, infusing it with their own unique blend of weirdness…
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Ganser – “Black Sand”
Alicia Gaines, Brian Cundiff, and Sophie Sputnik, make up Ganser, an alternative-post-punk band out of Chicago. Their new single “Black Sand” explores the uncontrollable spread of emotions, rumors, and harmful…
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The Mary Onettes – “Hurricane Heart” / “Eyes Open”
With an atmospheric presence that feels both vast and intimate, The Mary Onettes craft an immersive sonic journey – one that invites reflection on the bittersweet tension between memory and…
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Festival Coverage: Kilby Block Party 2025
The sixth annual iteration of Kilby Block Party commenced earlier this month at the Utah Fairgrounds in Salt Lake City. The music festival, presented by local promotion company S&S, included…
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Lawn – “Sports Gun”
“Sports Gun” is an immediate heavy-hitter. It sounds like “protest music” designed to stand up against the man and channel the restless energy of ambition, frustration, and discontent.
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Taxidermy – “You Are Here Now”
Taxidermy are a noisy post-punk project from Copenhagen, and “You Are Here Now” is their newest single, an enticing lead up to their upcoming EP out next month. What truly…
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The Fictionals – “Match”
The Fictionals recently formed in the post-covid creativity bloom in New York City (Brooklyn, to be exact), playing a variation of smooth, personality-fronted indie rock. In their latest single, the…
