Category: hard rock
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Thrice’s Horizons/West Smolders With Contrast and Clarity
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Thrice have always been a band in motion. Since emerging from the late ’90s Orange County post-hardcore scene, they’ve spent more than two decades refusing to be pinned down, shifting from hardcore grit to progressive experimentation to atmospheric rock. In 2021, Horizons/East marked…
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Silverstein’s ‘Pink Moon’ Proves the Second Half Hits Hardest
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Silverstein have always carried a restless hunger. Across two decades and countless reinventions, they’ve never been content to sit inside a neat box of “post-hardcore” or “emo veterans.” Instead, they’ve evolved in real time, their music reflecting both the anxieties and hopes of…
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Amy Lee, Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante Shatter the Internet as ‘End of You’ Breaks One Million Views in Just Over 24 Hours
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com When Amy Lee (Evanescence), Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante (Spiritbox) announced a collaboration, it sounded almost unreal. A dream lineup of three of heavy music’s most commanding voices. But just yesterday, Sept. 4th, that dream became reality with the release of “End of You,”…
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Amy Lee, Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante Deliver Explosive Power in New Collab “End of You”
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Today, Amy Lee, Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante unleashed “End of You”, a collaboration the heavy music world has been buzzing about for weeks. Teased just over a week ago with a single photo of the three artists together, the idea of a track…
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Sapient Scar Set to Unleash Their Debut Single ‘Weak Is the Weapon’, Out Friday, September 12th
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com First impressions matter. In life, in love, and especially in music, we often know within moments whether something is going to linger or vanish into background noise. For Los Angeles newcomers Sapient Scar, their debut single “Weak Is the Weapon” doesn’t just enter…
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Visions of Atlantis Brought Their Armada Crashing Over the Shores of Brooklyn’s The Meadows
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Some nights, the walls between performer and crowd collapse—and on April 5th at Brooklyn’s Meadows, they didn’t just collapse, they exploded. Under the low ceilings and pulsing lights, two forces collided: Seraina Telli, setting the stage ablaze with unfiltered colors and fire, and…
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