Category: Record Revue
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Record Revue: CJ Sooy – Is Anything Real
CJ Sooy‘s debut EP, Is Anything Real, feels like one of those dusty, scrappy cassette tapes that had to be hidden from strict, overbearing parents. Dripping in influences (Oasis and Goo Goo Dolls, the most obvious ones), the five-track project switches between static-y alt-rock radio stations but carries Sooy’s signature voice ringing in your ears.…
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Record Revue: Ryan Rickenbach – Sirens
There’s something about a voice that slaps you across the face when you first hear it. Ryan Rickenbach crashes like a wrecking ball into the eardrums. When his voice swings into the opening song, “Bad Man,” particularly when he lilts into his falsetto, he hooks into the part of the brain that stores melodies. That’s…
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Record Revue: Dakoda Rollins – 288 Troubadour EP
The moment the twang dips into “This Ain’t My First (Rodeo),” you know Dakoda Rollins isn’t messing around. The song fuels his new EP, 288 Troubadour, a high-voltage record that’s equally hooked to the past as it is to the present. Rollins owes a lot to ’90s folks such as Clint Black and Trace Adkins,…
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Pride 2026: LOYD – FRESH MEAT
For Pride Month 2026, B-Sides & Badlands is raising money for The Trevor Project. Our celebration of queerness features interviews with filmmakers and artists, reviews of queer horror and albums, and queer essays. Donate here. “Don’t you want a slice of me?” LOYD curls his tongue. The very last line of the title track to his new…
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Record Revue: The Nth Power – Never Alone
In 2026, we’ve landed in the bad timeline. With executive orders flying off the president’s desk faster than he scarfs down a bag of Cheetos, we’ve lost the plot and lost deep compassion for one another. That’s where soul-pop band The Nth Power comes in. Their fourth album, Never Alone, certainly lives up to its…
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Record Revue: Lena Fjortoft – Strange Light
The way Lena Fjortoft sings feels earth-shattering. Her voice blows like reeds in a field, light but piercing. With her first solo record, Strange Light, she cuts through the static electricity with the voltage of 1,000 television sets being tossed into the ocean. Songs like “Violets” and the jangly “Bell Jar” rise and fall with…
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Record Revue: Georgie Najar – Need to Know EP
There’s a very clear reason Georgie Najar closes out her new EP with “My Obsession with Love”: it’s her best song. The scorching torch ballad bookends Need to Know, a four-track wrecking ball of vocal prowess and thoughtful songwriting. Her voice peels the mind, particularly on “My Obsession with Love,” possessing a visceral rawness akin…
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Record Revue: Psychic Lines – Horror Comedy
Reality is stranger than fiction these days. “In the grasslands, the fire is tall and proud,” sings Phil Jacob, known professionally as Psychic Lines. The eerie soundscape throbs with raindrops of synths and mourning. “In the Grasslands” shimmers beneath a cataclysmic collision of manmade forces, dark and twisted, and serves as a thematic backbone to…
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Record Revue: Deblois – Cut and Run
When you hear Deblois rip into the title track, you get the very clear sense she’s lived so much life. Her voice is perfectly imperfect and world-weary, excavated from the earth, but it carries a special kind of warmth. There’s a coarseness to it, too, that shakes you and won’t let go. Deblois sketches her…
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Record Revue: Kacey Musgraves – Middle of Nowhere
If you remember, Kacey Musgraves first became a meme following the 2013 CMA Awards. During Miranda Lambert‘s acceptance speech for Female Vocalist of the Year, the camera panned to Musgraves, whose natural resting face caused quite a stir. That ignited perceived bad blood between the two for 13 years, and the duet partners confirm suspicions…
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Record Revue: Outsideness – …From What?
If you’re familiar with Freidrich$, you already know how experimental he is. When he approached Azalias about collaborating on a song, the work blossomed into a full-blown album. Together, they make up Outsideness, and their new album, …From What?, serves as a jetpack boost across the cosmic stretches of time and space. “Remedy,” the duo’s…
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Record Revue: Billy Woodward, Sleeping Lion, and Emily Scott Robinson
We take a deeper look into three of the best releases of 2022.
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Record Revue: Madison Rose, John Calvin Abney, and HOAX
Welcome to Record Revue, an EP and album review series There’s never any telling what music will move you. Whether you click on a link in a PR pitch or stumble upon something on Spotify, an album can be revolutionary to your emotions. It can arrive in the knick of time to save you or…
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Record Revue: Tami Neilson, Dead Method, Deathcruiser & Haywood
Welcome to Record Revue, an EP and album review series 2022 has been another absolute dumpster fire. It seems fear is the agenda of the time. But thank god music has continued to heal and comfort and prove an ample escape. In today’s long-overdue Record Revue return, we peer into a smorgasbord of talent to…
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Record Revue: Foxes, Jason Scott, Jenny Tolman, and Bryce Bowyn
Find the perfect salve in this latest batch of records.
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