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Magazine Beach – Sick Day
6/10 Here’s a banger of an extended play by Washington, DC pop-punkers Magazine Beach. Dubbed Sick Day and released independently on December 13, 2019, this album is 11 minutes of head-banging fun. I really can’t […]
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Rearviewmirror: Remembering the 90s – Smash Mouth – Astro Lounge
90s Score: 7.5/102020 Score: 5/10 When I was kid Smash Mouth was unironically my favourite band. I owned their first three albums, wore them out, and then after age eleven never listened to them again. […]
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Anti-Flag – 20/20 Vision
5/10 20/20 Vision is the newest album from Pittsburgh punks Anti-Flag, and it is absolutely adequate. The twelfth release from the band, 20/20 Vision is a half hour of not-bad-but-not-great pop punk underneath try-hard lyrics […]
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Raised Wrong – Shut Up Already
7.5/10 Ooh, I’ve heard this sound before. Where’s it from? Southern California? No? It’s from Greece and that’s pretty cool. Raised Wrong emulate the style of 90s skate punk bands like NOFX, Lagwagon, and Good […]
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Luis Mojica – How A Stranger Is Made
4.5/10 New York pianist, composer, and performer Luis Mojica has dawned his second album, How A Stranger is Made, unto the seemingly unaware world, accompanied by a little more incomprehension and identity confusion than intended. […]
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The Good Minus – The Good Minus
8/10 The Good Minus are a pop-rock band from Melbourne, Australia, here with their self-titled debut album. Comprised of three multi-instrumentalists with a knack for vocal harmonies, The Good Minus has been described as “Grizzly […]
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House Calls – Free Whatever
7.5/10 Free Whateveris the debut EP from Edmonton self-described “post-glam dirt pop” band House Calls. This twelve-ish minute release lives up to the band’s description of themselves, with bits of power-pop, proto-punk (god, that’s a […]
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GUITARFIRE100 – Stealing Paintings
8/10 GUITARFIRE100 are a strangely-named Montreal pop-punk band here with their debut EP Stealing Paintings. The band pack a lot into just three short tunes, with their straightforward, punk rock musicianship backing up some catchy […]
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Sunglaciers – Foreign Bodies
7/10 If you’ve ever wondered what the water melting from the glaciers sounded like, give a listen to Sunglaciers. The Calgary quartet has a sound that is cold, bold, fluid, wavy and shimmery. Wrapped in […]
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Louser – Louser
9/10 Winnipeg emo rockers Louser are back with their latest EP, Louser. This self-titled release is an impressive follow up to 2018 Intermediate State. The production is a little more polished than on the band’s […]