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  Corb Lund Is a Hurtin' Albertan on the Weed-Gone-Wrong Anthem "Old Familiar Drunken Feeling"

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  PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2023

  As someone whose modest instrumental skill all but evaporates in altered states, the tale of "herbal terrorism" Corb Lund tells on new sing...

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  hemlocke springs Is Radically Sincere on 'going...going...GONE!'

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  PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2023

  As soon as I heard hemlocke springs yearningly screech "Secretly I'm aiming for a freedom that exceeds my expectations" on TikTok last year...

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  gglum Sifts Through the Mess on "SPLAT!"

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  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2023

  A title like "SPLAT!" conjures visions of neon goop and cartoonish slapstick, but the latest single from London-based songwriter Ella Smoke...

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  Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist Stretch Out (Just a Little) on 'VOIR DIRE'

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  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2023

  The other day, my colleague Calum Slingerland asked me what's the first thing that grabs me when I listen to a new hip-hop album; I respond...

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  Mary Lattimore Is a Singular Force on the Mesmerizing 'Goodbye, Hotel Arkada'

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  PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2023

  I made the mistake of starting my day with Drake's For All the Dogs, so hitting play on Mary Lattimore's Goodbye, Hotel Arkada felt like re...

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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...

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  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,...

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  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...