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    High Totals
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    High Totals Premieres Video for “Bleach My Bones in the Sun”

     Kendra Sheetz
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    Chicken Happen
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    Chicken Happen Premieres New Song, “Satisfied”

     Mat Stokes
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    ACNE
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    ACNE Premieres New Song, “Magic 8-Ball”

     Kendra Sheetz
  4. La Escalera Fest
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    La Escalera Fest Ocho Ticket Giveaway Contest

     Kendra Sheetz
  5. Year of the Fist
    Newstour
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    Year Of The Fist Announces Pacific Northwest Tour Dates

     Kendra Sheetz
  6. Alright
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    Alright & Late Bloomer Announce Spring East Coast Tour

     Kendra Sheetz
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    From Parts Unknown
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    From Parts Unknown Announces Midwestern Tour

     Kendra Sheetz
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    Hangtime
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    Hangtime Premieres New Video for “A Thousand Years Ago,” Streams New LP

     Kendra Sheetz
  9. Last Night Issue
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    Last Night Issue Releases Video for “Split Second”

     Kendra Sheetz
  10. Blind Man Death Stare
    Newsvideo
    Newsvideo

    Blind Man Death Stare Releases Video for “Just Because It Feels Good”

     Kendra Sheetz
  11. Friday's Spirit
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    Friday’s Spirit Releases New Single, “TSTT”

     Kendra Sheetz
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    Alex Wiley Coyote
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    Alex Wiley Coyote Announces New Album on Worry Records

     Kendra Sheetz
  13. La Escalera Fest
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    La Escalera Announces Lineup For Eighth Year of Festival

     Kendra Sheetz
  14. End of Pipe
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    Newsvideo

    End of Pipe Releases New Single & Video for “Get Alive”

     Kendra Sheetz
  15. Cheatin at Solitaire
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    Cheatin’ at Solitaire Releases New Album, ‘Barkley’

     Kendra Sheetz
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    Tourist Season
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    Tourist Season Releases ‘Snow Doubt About It’ & Migrates North

     Kendra Sheetz
  17. Premiere
    Four It All
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    Four It All Releases Debut EP, ‘Rhythm Thru Sunshine’

     Kendra Sheetz
  18. Captain Asshole
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    Newsvideo

    Captain Asshole Releases “Kyoto Wa Doko Nan Da?” from Upcoming Album

     Kendra Sheetz
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    Rich Widows
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    Rich Widows Debuts New Song “A Good Day”

     Kendra Sheetz
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    Newsvideo
    Newsvideo

    Roundhouse Premieres Music Video “O Death,” Releases New Merch

     Ty Dykema
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    Turnspit
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    Newsstream

    Turnspit Premieres New Single “So Long & Good Luck”

     Kendra Sheetz
  22. Boss Daughter
    Newstour
    Newstour

    Boss’ Daughter Announces ‘Febrewary Tour’

     Kendra Sheetz
  23. Newsvideo
    Newsvideo

    Dead Eye Zack Releases New Music Video, Announces New Album

     Ty Dykema
  24. Friskie Morris & Friends
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    Friskie Morris & Friends Release Volume 2 of Welcome to Chicagoland Compilation

    Good Music for a Good Cause!

    Stephen DeFalco

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Up The Pets

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At Odds

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PBR with Erin

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Decent Panini

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Punx Who Panic

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The Bottom End

Bass players are often the underrated and overlooked members of a band. We explore music and other noise from the perspective of those that hold do
Flavor of the Weak

The memoirs of a career roadie.
Four Tours & Seven Beers Ago

An ongoing anthology of tour diaries.
Awful Sounds and Shitty Jokes

Unabashedly pretentious musings on noise, shitposting, and other cultural forces.

One Year Ago Today

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    Jen Louie’s Completely Random Top 10s for 2023
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    Steve’s Favorite Records of 2023

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