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Real Friends Let Us Know There’s Nothing Worse Than Too Late


— Real Friends just made February real exciting by announcing they’re dropping a new EP called There’s Nothing Worse Than Too Late on the 24th. They had already dropped “Tell Me You’re Sorry” and “Always Lose”, off of the 8-track release. Now, to celebrate the big announcement, they’ve let us in on another single: “Six Feet”.  When talking about the new song, the band said, “‘Six Feet’ is a song about longing to be loved and appreciated while you’re still here. I always see and hear good things said about people after something bad happens to them or after they… Read more »

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Death Cab For Cutie’s Asphalt Meadows Goes Acoustic


— Death Cab for Cutie is reimagining their latest album, Asphalt Meadows and giving us an acoustic version this March. The original version of their 10th studio album dropped this past September and we’ve been in love ever since. Now we get to experience it all over again on March 10th. Two tracks have already been released: the acoustic version of “Pepper” can be heard here and their cover of “The Plan”, by Low, can be heard here.  On recording “The Plan”, frontman Ben Gibbard said, “I first saw Low in 1994 opening for Sunny Day Real Estate at the… Read more »

Editorial

Phoenix Festival, 1996: The Tour That Defined Me


— As UK music festivals go, the Phoenix Festival doesn’t have the storied history of Glastonbury or Reading. It only ran for five years, between 1993 and ’97, but it was located pretty close to my home in the Midlands region of England when I was growing up, and so I went to the 1995 event and the two that followed.  The 1996 Phoenix Festival is the festival that I judge all festivals on. So high was the bar it set, I’ve yet to see it be bettered (and I’ve attended Glastonburys, Readings, Coachellas, Riot Fests, Rocklahomas, Download/Doningtons, and more… Read more »

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The Murder of Tyre Nichols


Too often in America we have disgusting and deplorable news slap us in the face. The only reason we can even wrap our heads around it being true is that we tend to have the video evidence to back it up. Tyre Nichols was brutally murdered this weekend in another case of a police force abusing their power. Five police officers pulled the 29-year-old out of his car after pulling him over for alleged “reckless driving.” As shown in the video, they then proceeded to beat him and shout profanities at him. It didn’t take long for Nichols to begin… Read more »

Features

In Appreciation Of: Albums Turning 10 and 20 in 2023 and How They’re Refueling Festival Season


Music festival season is just on the horizon and, while we wait for the gloomy weather to pass, we can revel in the flood of music news typical of this time of year. A majority of the music festival lineups are announced in January and the festival posters set the landscape for the year in live music, foreshadowing larger tours from bands, new album cycles, and even resurgences of genres and legacy bands that might be past their peak of popularity. Pop-punk is fresh off a massive re-emergence, showcased by the success of the When We Were Young Festival in… Read more »

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