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Paramore Bring Some Friends on Board for the Invigorating 'Re: This Is Why'

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PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2023

Every Paramore song tends to be its own little existential plane. That's why This Is Why stood out to me as their tightest and most cohesiv...

John Carpenter's 'Anthology II: Movie Themes 1976–1988' Will Genuinely Scare Trick-or-Treaters

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PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2023

Horror Master John Carpenter already reworked his best-known film scores for 2017's Anthology: Movie Themes 1974–1998, on which Carpenter,...

James Wyatt Crosby Finds Comfort in Humility on "Ashamed"

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PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2023

Everything that James Wyatt Crosby touches turns into a warm breeze, even when it's drenched in melancholy. The shade of "Ashamed" is hued...

thanks for coming's 'What Is My Capacity to Love?' Makes Magic from the Mundane

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PUBLISHED Sep 29, 2023

Rachel Brown's work as thanks for coming feels worlds away from the shattered art rock they make with Nate Amos as Water from Your Eyes. Wh...

David Vertesi Celebrates Olivia Quan — and Life Itself — with "One in a Million"

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2023

Hey Ocean! bassist David Vertesi wrote "One in a Million" about the death of Vancouver producer Olivia Quan last year, and while the lyrics...

ML Buch Continues to Defy Description on "Well bucket" and "Working it out"

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PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2023

You know an artist is striking previously unstruck nerves when any attempts to contextualize their music lands you on descriptions like "mi...

Brian Jordan Alvarez's "Sitting" Is a Wonderful Thing to Listen To

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PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2023

It's kinda like a nap. It's kinda like something else but it is actually just "Sitting" by TJ Mack (Brian Jordan Alvarez). You may recogni...

James Blonde's 'Chameleon' Is Buoyant and Breezy

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PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2023

Just as Niagara alt-rock trio James Blonde has three members, so too does their sophomore studio album Chameleon have three sides to it — t...