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Last week we had Flo Milli remaking “A Milli.” This week it’s Doechii going in over the beat from “Int’l Players Anthem,” UGK and OutKast’s regal, resplendent, basically perfect 2007 hit. In the Florida rapper’s hands, the music has been rebranded as “Universal Swamp Anthem.” Part of Mass Appeal and Google’s Pixel RePresents series,  » Read More

For years now, the Oxnard thrashers Dead Heat have been playing breakneck speed metal for hardcore crowds. They have a complete understanding of how to turn their chosen genre, the crossover thrash of the late ’80s, into music that’ll elicit the maximum physical response possible — when to speed up, when to slow down,  » Read More

St. Louis hardcore band Squint just combined their whole discography so far into one album called Feel It All Wash Away. More importantly, they’ve got a new single called “All” out today, a short, fiery track inspired by DC punk’s fabled Revolution Summer. The song strikes a real nice balance between shouty immediacy and ultra-catchy melodic accents.  » Read More

Over the past couple of years, the young San Pedro rapper Remble, a protege of the late cult hero Drakeo The Ruler, built a serious buzz thanks to a uniquely silly rap style. Remble rapped about street-life exploits, but he over-enunciated every syllable and deployed SAT words, sounding less like his street-rap peers and more like an uncommonly uptight adjunct professor.  » Read More

Last summer we got Milo Goes To Congress, and now I guess it’s Milo Goes To The Hospital? Descendents, the Southern California pop-punk legends, announced today that they’ll be canceling their upcoming European tour because singer-guitarist Milo Aukerman suffered a “mild heart attack” last night. He’s expected to make a full recovery,  » Read More

On April Fool’s Day 2022, the New York emo band Tree River released a monstrously catchy album called Time Being. They followed it up with one-off single “Get Up” last fall, and now they’re back with another new track. “Earthside” shows off many aspects of Tree River,  » Read More

By gawd! OSEES, the frantic psychedelic punk band led by the endlessly prolific one-man underground rock institution John Dwyer, will drop their new LP Intercepted Message next month, and we’ve already posted the album’s title track. Today, the band once known as Thee Oh Sees has followed that track with a trebly and insistent synth/guitars/drum attack called “Stunner.”  » Read More

Flo Milli asserts repeatedly throughout new single “Fruit Loop” that she is the shit. All the other lyrics back up her case. Over a hard, bass-powered Young Fyre beat, Flo raps about her own desirability and how far short most others fall. Not this one guy though: “I can’t let him go if I like how he please me/ Bae hit the spot,  » Read More

As Sinai Vessel, Asheville’s Caleb Cordes keeps a relatively low profile and doesn’t kick up much ruckus even when releasing his thoughtful and soft-spoken indie rock. Cordes released his great Ground Aswim album in 2020 and shared the outtake “Swimming” in 2021. At the end of that year,  » Read More