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Month: May 2025

  • Sextile Drops Rave-Punk Bangers on Yes, Please

    Sextile Yes, Please album cover

    Sextile kicks off Yes, Please with one hell of an “Intro.” It’s all alarms, distorted vocals and squelching electronics that make you think the L.A.-based duo have plans to drop you back into a 1992 Prodigy jam. They don’t. Instead, Sextile diverts you to the sweat-drenched warehouse of right now with “Women Respond to Bass,” a banger for the afters where the subs send the low-end pulsing through the soles of your Docs, and the previously released single “Freak Eyes.” 

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  • Vague Lanes on Catharsis and Connection Through Music

    Vague Lanes (photo Steven Purham)
    Vague Lanes (photo Steven Purham)

    “I think all of the music that I’ve ever made is mostly cathartic,” says Mike Cadoo of Vague Lanes. “I almost need to make music for that means.”

    In fact, he notes, most of the songs on Divergence and Declaration, with the exception of “Exo,” are “pretty grim.” 

    “We’re not exactly making pop-punk music here,” bandmate Badger McInnes agrees. 

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