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Category: Music Reviews

Review: GROUPLOVE: “Hello, All!”

Posted on March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 by Haley Gilbert

When the temperature reaches 70 degrees, certain things become non-negotiable for me: every outfit needs to include a pair of shorts, my car windows will be rolled down, and every playlist should contain at least one GROUPLOVE song to set the mood. Thankfully, with the surprise release of their new double single “Hello, All!” off…

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Review: Musiq Soulchild & Hit-Boy: ‘Victims and Villains’

Posted on March 22, 2023March 24, 2023 by Adeboye Adeoye

Following a six-year hiatus from releasing his own music, Musiq Soulchild returned to the scene in early March 2023. Victims and Villains is a collab album with producer Hit-Boy. This new album comes nearly 23 years after the release of his debut studio album Aijuswanaseing (I just wanna sing), but he still continues his E.E….

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Review: PICTURESHOW: ‘A Night at the Picture Show’

Posted on March 3, 2023March 3, 2023 by Buket Urgen

PICTURESHOW is one of the newest bands to rise from Athens, Georgia. On March 3, they released their aptly titled debut EP A Night at the Picture Show. Almost two weeks earlier, the band eagerly released their debut single “Fix,” which features cyclical riffs, passionate growl-singing, and sharp lyrics. The band’s EP is characterized by…

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Review: Blu & Exile: ‘Below the Heavens’

Posted on February 22, 2023February 23, 2023 by Adeboye Adeoye

Below The Heavens is a phrase that immediately strikes one when they read it. Coincidentally, it is the title of the 2007 debut album of Los Angeles rapper-producer duo Blu & Exile. Looking back at Hip Hop in the 2000s, we can place most popular rappers into one of two lanes. Flashy and “hardened” MCs…

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Review: Gregory Alan Isakov: ‘This Empty Northern Hemisphere’

Posted on February 20, 2023February 20, 2023 by Haley Gilbert

I think everyone has that one album that really redefines what music means to them and transforms their view of the world and for me, This Empty Northern Hemisphere by Gregory Alan Isakov is that album. When I listen to it, it perplexes me how I could possibly have access to the same 26 letters…

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Review: Little Simz: ‘NO THANK YOU’

Posted on February 8, 2023February 2, 2023 by Adeboye Adeoye

Little Simz closed out 2022 with the release of her fifth studio album NO THANK YOU. Announced just one week before its release, the 50-minute album was subsequently accompanied by a ten-minute short film. Simz, an English rapper born to Nigerian parents, is an independent artist who released her first album in 2013. Now, at…

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Review: boygenius: “$20,” “Emily I’m Sorry,” “True Blue”

Posted on January 21, 2023January 22, 2023 by Haley Gilbert

Oat milk latte drinkers rejoice, supergroup boygenius is officially back. Consisting of members Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, the indie-rock trio announced Wednesday that they will be releasing their long-awaited debut album The Record on March 31 with Interscope Records. In conjunction with the announcement, they released three new songs: “$20,” “Emily I’m…

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Review: Bad Bad Hats: “It Hurts (Demo)”

Posted on January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 by Haley Gilbert

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of their debut EP It Hurts, Minneapolis-based indie-rock duo Bad Bad Hats will be releasing It Hurts (10th Anniversary edition) at the end of the month. The reissue will consist of remasters of all five songs, as well as the original demos, and will be the first…

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Review: The Dazy Chains: “Electric Sunshine”

Posted on October 8, 2021March 2, 2023 by Buket Urgen

The Dazy Chains, a relatively new homegrown Athens band, didn’t let the past year and a half stop them from writing, recording, and releasing their debut full-length album Electric Sunshine, which came out Oct 8th at midnight. The album cover, like the contents within the album, is a psychedelic piece of art. It features the iconic steeple…

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Review: Hotel Fiction: ‘Soft Focus’

Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 by Buket Urgen

Hotel Fiction’s debut album Soft Focus is finally out today. Written and recorded over the past two years, Soft Focus is a complete introduction to the potential Hotel Fiction brings to the table as musicians, writers, and creatives. It’s rare that a musical act steps forward with such a complete vision and polished presence, but Hotel Fiction has done…

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