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Copper Crown – Walk With Fire
8/10 It would be simple and indeed true to call Copper Crown’s debut full-length album Walk With Fire ska. However, it would also be a great injustice, as there is so much more to Copper […]
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Makes Good Choices – The 1984 Draft
5/10 Pop-punk bands get on in their years as time marches along. For there to be any hope in authentic music the gears of said music must naturally follow suit. The 1984 Draft’s Makes Good […]
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Sage – Sage
7/10 If you were to take the popish feel of The Beatles, cranked up the heavy, then sprinkled a little bit of indie rock and finally dumped the entire fuzz jar in, you’d probably get […]
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Ostrich Bouquet – Perennial
9/10 Formed in Februrary of 2017 and based in Montreal, QC, the relatively recent progressive quartet Ostrich Bouquet have released a solid EP in Perennial. Combining everything from post-rock, to blues, and indie, their second release is both […]
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MONOWHALES – Control Freak
8/10 The Toronto scene indie pop machine! It always seems to be running on all cylinders, pumping out infinite content. Case in point, MONOWHALES and their latest EP Control Freak (released June 1st, 2018), six […]
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Homesafe – One
7/10 Pop-punk has come a long way from its frosted-tipped heyday in the mid-2000s. The genre has suffered from the same kind of glut as hair metal or grunge went through, as wave after wave […]
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The Aftergreens – A little sad… but kinda rad?
6/10 The Aftergreens, coming out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, are comprised of Adam Baumann (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Eric Wigham (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Jordan Narloch (drums). Officially forming with the current line-up in 2014 (then known […]
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The Gays – The Agenda
5/10 The Gays are a Montreal band. That about covers it. The city’s Euro-Western electro-music vibe is felt in every second of this record. The closest comparison I could come up with was Death From […]
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The DROPOUTS – The Sister Gracie EP
7/10 The Sister Gracie EP is the latest release from Los Angeles pop-punk band The DROPOUTS. While the EP only has a run time of nine minutes, the fun, memorable songs you’ll hear on this […]
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Morgan Barrie – Fall
6.1/10 I’ve always found the singer/songwriter genre very polarizing. It seems they’ll either produce something so amazing, something so profound that you find yourself pantsless and screaming at the moon over their sheer brilliance after […]