Category: reviews
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The Veer Union Deliver Their Most Ambitious Work Yet With ‘Reinvention’
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com For a band that first cut through the noise in the radio era with the urgency of SEASONS, longevity was never guaranteed. The late 2000s were a different battlefield — one where spins determined survival and algorithms didn’t yet dictate discovery. Nearly two…
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Joel Hoekstra’s 13 Deliver a Career-Defining Surge on ‘From The Fade’
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There’s a certain electricity that runs through From The Fade — the kind that doesn’t come from volume or tempo, but from musicians who know exactly what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. Joel Hoekstra has spent years operating at the highest…
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A.R.S.O.N. Proves Story Of The Year Still Rules Post Hardcore
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Story Of The Year has never been a band that needed to announce their return. They’ve never vanished long enough for silence to define them. Instead, their career has unfolded like a long conversation with their audience—sometimes loud, sometimes bruised, sometimes defiant, but…
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Poppy’s ‘Empty Hands’ Hits Harder Than Anything You’d Expect
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Today, Poppy drops Empty Hands, her seventh studio album via Sumerian Records, and with it comes a stark reminder: she refuses to play by anyone else’s rules. Emerging from a career already marked by boundary-pushing experiments, GRAMMY nods, and uncanny performance art, Poppy…
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Megadeth Set to Unleash Their Final Strike
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com There are very few bands whose absence would leave a crater rather than a gap. Megadeth are one of them—I can’t imagine metal without the standards they set. From the earliest days of Dave Mustaine turning rejection into obsession, Megadeth became metal’s proving…
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Soen Delivers Their Most Human Album Yet with Reliance
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Soen’s upcoming album Reliance, out Friday, January 16th via Silver Lining Music, is not a record that kicks the door in just for the sake of volume or virtuosity. Instead, it opens slowly, deliberately, like a deep breath before confession. It’s an album…
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