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Wet Leg Level Up with Punchy "catch these fists"
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PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2025
"Level up," Wet Leg vocalist Rhian Teasdale declares as the thundering groove of "catch these fists" bursts into its pummelling chorus. It's...
The Hives Continue Their Comeback Era with "Enough Is Enough"
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PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2025
The Hives were among my least-expected comebacks in 2023, but their tear back into public consciousness with 'The Death of Randy...
'Dan's Boogie' Offers a Beginner's Introduction to Destroyer
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PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2025
For much of his career, Vancouver songwriter Dan Bejar has been one of those musical chameleons — a Bowie or a Beck, whose arrangement...
Bria Salmena Is Unleashed on 'Big Dog'
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PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2025
Toronto's Bria Salmena is a familiar presence, but an unknowable one all the same. In the years leading up to today's release of her debut...
Great Grandpa Are Whatever You Need Them to Be on 'Patience, Moonbeam'
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PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2025
This is the kind of record I wait for every year. Inevitably it arrives, like last year's 'Tiger's Blood,' 2023's 'The Window' or 2022's...
Black Country, New Road Live Up to Their Promise on "For the Cold Country"
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PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2025
I've been intrigued and a little confused by the way Black Country, New Road's 2022 album 'Ants from Up the There' has been embraced as a...
Sorry Girls Bounce Back Unapologetically with "Ricochet"
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PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2025
I really like the song "The Exiles" by Sorry Girls — the Montreal-based dream pop duo of Heather Foster Kirkpatrick and Dylan Konrad Obront...
Lucette Reintroduces Herself as a 'Nice Girl from the Suburbs'
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PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2025
If this is your first time coming across her name, let it be known that Edmonton's Lucette and her career have led many lives over the...
