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When Will This All End?: Joel Shanahan's 'Frozen Clock Hovering'

When Will This All End?: Joel Shanahan’s ‘Frozen Clock Hovering’

Anticipation. Static atmospheres. Brightening tones,  percussive indulgences, and pleasant strolls through synthscape forests.  Sound is subjective and hypnotic. Through frequency, we resonate.  Our minds can become foggy labyrinths where we wander endlessly, unaware of any exit or detour. A maze where we come face to face with our own mirrored images.  Art helps us realize another’s…

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Ratskin Records, A Rare & Radical Gem: How One Independent Label is Changing the Narrative

Ratskin Records, A Rare & Radical Gem: How One Independent Label is Changing the Narrative

A music scene fostering around community and progressive conversation. Friends showing up for friends. Art being represented as self-liberation, and as pure, genuine activism. Expressionism and accessibility are on the forefront of the mission. Voices that need to be heard are blaring. So, what? Are you scared? If you’re on the wrong side of history, you should be. Ratskin Records is…

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Conjuring Creations: A Review of SUPERTWIN's Genre-Defying Record, 'Fortress'

Conjuring Creations: A Review of SUPERTWIN’s Genre-Defying Record, ‘Fortress’

It’s cathartic. I’m walking down an empty Florida highway, stretches of cracked pavement, humidity pulsing through the air, sunshine leaking onto palmetto landscapes. Deranged and sweating, clothes stuck to my back, a heavy-hitting heat unlike any other. Growing up in Ocala, I was always so enamored by the local music scene of central Florida’s Gainesville, a college town only twenty minutes…

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Mind of the Magus: The Mystical Poetry of Robert Hunter

Mind of the Magus: The Mystical Poetry of Robert Hunter

Eighty, long years have passed since the waning crescent moon of June 23rd, 1941. In the town of Arroyo Grande, California, in the warm summer wind, a gracious being was born. One that would rewrite the scope of perception, tap into the great divinity of nature’s language, and gift the world with an entryway into the unknown. Happy birthday, dear Robert Hunter. A man, no different than you and…

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JUNO MAMBA, Visionary of the Void

JUNO MAMBA, Visionary of the Void

I’ve been reading weary books on how to live – searching for my soul in words. It’s a tiresome course, set up with plenty obstacles and too few loopholes. Life is a wretched, beautiful performance. Most nights I’d rather be in the depths of outer space… Experiencing the birth of stars, looking out on the vast nothingness of the universe, feeling comforted by my indefinite solitude. Few things…

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Holocene: A Type of Refuge

Holocene: A Type of Refuge

As a global-pandemic seems hopeful of bettering itself, I tend to find myself searching for the for the meaning behind prolonged isolation. Maybe it’s not too sensible to demand answers from the universe, or from anyone for that matter, but these emotions are hard to process. They don’t go away- instead they churn in your stomach once you’ve eaten them. They rest, to awaken later on. Little…

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avoid. Waves Their Final Goodbye with Upcoming LP Release

avoid. Waves Their Final Goodbye with Upcoming LP Release

Featured Photo by: Joe Gibbs

In the town of Cedar Falls, Iowa, you might wander around a cemetery (for whatever reason) and find a gravestone marked “avoid.: The Authentic Voice of Melodic Hardcore”. Being a band of “five people trying to make the most honest music possible”, avoid. brought three beautiful releases to life over the course of three rather difficult years: There Is Always A…

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Axis: Sova Gets Squeaky Clean on Shampoo You

Axis: Sova Gets Squeaky Clean on Shampoo You

Following a discography that throws you into the depths a murky swamp, Axis: Sova‘s third full-length album, Shampoo You, shapes the nostalgic sound of dirty punk music into a unique and rather cleansing experience. At a first glimpse, you might be asking yourself the same question I did, “Is this just a credible jamband?” Well, for starters, there’s no doubt about it… but with every release,…

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Architects release short film: ‘Holy Ghost’

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Return to the Mire: A retrospective look at the Earth-shattering debut from UK Metal outfit Conjurer

Read our first review, an in-depth look at U.K.’s Conjurer and their debut 2018 release, Mire. We love a good metal record.

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How to Build an Artistic Community from Scratch: A Conversation with Mandalay Social Club

Read about Clearwater, FL’s very own DIY community for local artists looking to represent genuine music and authenticity. We sit down with Mandalay Social Club founder Young Gosling and discuss just what it takes to run an omnipresent artistic website. 

Photos By: Young Gosling