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  • Listening Now : Crawford Mack – Don’t Play The Victim

    Crawford Mack tear apart ego, manipulation, and self-inflicted downfall on Don’t Play The Victim, a razor-sharp indie rocker driven by biting storytelling and relentless momentum. Built around abrasive guitar textures, trashy percussion, and a tightly wound groove, the track channels frustration into something darkly exhilarating, balancing theatrical swagger with pointed social observation. Crawford Mack flips the classic femme fatale narrative on its head, exposing the fragile arrogance hiding beneath male victimhood and turning the accusation back toward its source with brutal clarity. Clever, confrontational, and rhythmically explosive, Don’t Play The Victim hits with both intellectual bite and raw sonic force.

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  • Review ELDER “Through Zero”

    Elder are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, and what better way to mark such a special occasion than with a new album? The band launched a stunning debut album in 2008, representing their stoner/doom influences, while slowly adding a psychedelic aspect to their music. Meanwhile, based in Berlin, Germany, Elder has become one of… Continue Reading →
  • Listening Now : Marco Pacassoni – Week in Hong Kong

    Marco Pacassoni craft an elegant and deeply immersive instrumental journey on Week in Hong Kong, a composition where technical precision meets emotional fluidity with remarkable ease. Centered around the shimmering resonance of the vibraphone, the piece unfolds through graceful melodic movement, rich harmonic layers, and a subtle rhythmic sophistication that invites both focus and reflection. Rather than overwhelming with complexity, Marco Pacassoni allow each phrase room to breathe naturally, creating a cinematic atmosphere that feels simultaneously urban, meditative, and transportive. Refined, luminous, and beautifully balanced, Week in Hong Kong highlights the expressive depth of contemporary jazz-infused instrumental music.

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  • Listening Now : Orlando Hotopf – Blue Jeans

    Orlando Hotopf channel heartbreak and emotional turbulence into Blue Jeans, a beautifully weathered indie-folk ballad wrapped in intimacy and quiet cinematic tension. Recorded during a snowstorm in a remote cabin outside Stockholm, the track carries that same isolated atmosphere through warm acoustic textures, aching vocals, and a slow-burning emotional pull that steadily deepens toward its stunning bridge and finale. Orlando Hotopf capture the devastation of someone entering your life like a force of nature only to disappear just as violently, leaving emotional wreckage behind. Reflective, raw, and gorgeously understated, Blue Jeans lingers like frostbite after the storm has passed.

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  • Listening Now : Bloomer – Something In The Middle – Clouds Edition

    Bloomer blur the boundaries between shoegaze, alt rock, and electronic dreamscapes on Something In The Middle – Clouds Edition, a soaring atmospheric cut filled with introspection and emotional drift. Layered guitars, shimmering textures, and weightless production create a sky-bound atmosphere where melancholy and uplift coexist beautifully, while the vocals carry a quiet emotional urgency beneath the haze. Rather than exploding outward, the track gradually unfolds with immersive patience, pulling listeners into its floating emotional center. Expansive, reflective, and deeply transportive, Something In The Middle – Clouds Edition showcases Bloomer’s ability to transform vulnerability into vast cinematic sound.

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  • “We had been on the road pretty heavily, and we were burned.” How a frazzled Bad Company made their “great lost album” Burnin’ Sky

    Without a big hit single to raise its profile, Bad Company’s fourth album has fallen between history’s cracks
  • Daniel Rinaldi: Mental Health in the Alternative Music Scene

    Daniel Rinaldi: Mental Health in the Alternative Music Scene was originally published on HM Magazine by Nao Glover.

    Cullen and Mason are joined by Daniel Rinaldi who is a therapist who used to be in an emo band and now helps with the mental health of many alternative music artists. They chat about mental health in the alternative music scene back in the early 2000s vs. today, how alternative music has changed with […]

    Daniel Rinaldi: Mental Health in the Alternative Music Scene was originally published on HM Magazine by Nao Glover.

  • Listening Now : Lucy Frost – Lead Paint

    Lucy Frost weave vulnerability and quiet devastation into Lead Paint, a haunting alt-pop slow burner built on ghostly guitars, delicate acoustics, and emotionally exposed songwriting. With a restrained yet deeply affecting atmosphere, the track explores the painful awareness of staying drawn toward something harmful simply because it feels familiar and comforting. Lucy Frost balances cinematic melancholy with diaristic intimacy, allowing every lyric to land with subtle emotional weight rather than dramatic excess. Fragile, reflective, and beautifully bittersweet, Lead Paint unfolds like a late-night confession illuminated by fading light and unresolved longing.

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  • Listening Now : David Serby – Flight Path

    David Serby capture late-night heartbreak and working-class melancholy on Flight Path, a richly textured roots-rock ballad suspended between emotional collapse and the dream of escape. Galloping rhythms, dusty guitar strums, and beautifully mournful pedal steel create the sensation of motion without arrival, mirroring the song’s portrait of strained relationships, economic frustration, and restless longing beneath the roar of passing airplanes. Serby’s storytelling feels cinematic yet deeply grounded, transforming everyday despair into vivid Americana poetry filled with neon lights, cracked walls, and fragile hope. Worn-in, reflective, and emotionally resonant, Flight Path lingers like the fading glow of a runway disappearing into the night sky.

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