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From Flavor to Feel: How to Find the Best Pre-Rolls for You

November 4, 2024

If you want to smoke weed without having to deal with rolling your own tokes, then pre-rolls are a popular option that could work for you. Still, the choices thrown your way might be difficult to navigate before you find the perfect pre-rolls for your needs and preferences. Knowing what makes a pre-roll high grade can help ensure you are getting an amazing joint and fun experience. In this article, we discuss some tips to use when on the lookout for the best pre-rolls.   Here are some tips for finding the best pre-rolled joints in the market that are ideal for you:   Familiarize yourself with Different Types of Strain The first step in choosing the best pre-rolls is understanding the strain types. The three main types are hybrid, sativa, and indica. India is frequently suggested for use at night or when you want to destress. Sativa, on the[...]

Spiria

September 19, 2024

Indie-pop duo Spiria has been blowing us away over the past couple years after we discovered them on Nickel City B-Sides. The band is a sibling act, performing fairly stripped down sets with a lineup of just keyboard and drums. Lead singer Mikayla Manke’s dreamy delivery is both enchanting and mesmerizing, so if you’re a fan of Regina Spektor or Laura Marling, then make sure you catch Spiria.

Kaycie Satterfield – “Jetsam”

February 28, 2024

New York musician Kaycie Satterfield’s new single “Jetsam” is an angular, melodious indie-rock ode to misfits and marginalized women. Satterfield sings to all the girls that have lived in a world cut in a shape other than their own, inviting them to join her in excising implicit shame. Kaycie’s new track leads with warm juicy guitar lines that she contrasts with underlying chilly anxious drum rhythms and glimmery cascading synths. She plays with tempo and sonic temperatures and folds that song craft into her writing to great effect. Fans of Angel Olsen, Julia Jacklin, and Phoebe Bridgers will find lots to love on Kaycie’s new cut. Here she is talking about the new release; “Jetsam is for the girls. Specifically, the girls who always stay a little messy, who could never quite get their hair to fall neat, who could never really pull a nice outfit together. Who never got[...]

The Empty Page – “Cock of the Fifth Year”

February 25, 2024

Manchester based alt-punk band The Empty Page just hit us with their new single “Cock of the Fifth Year,” a fat punk cut filled with piss and swagger. The new song slaps the double standards and hypocrisies served up by the patriarchy and posits you to think about the everyday threat of violence and who unjustly bears the societal burden. Thick rock chords punctuate stanzas of hollered proclamations that are delivered with teeth-gnashing determination and shouted to reach the back of every barroom. As each verse takes aim at the archetypal toxic male, the song builds a tension with every instrumental pause and ambiance. That tension releases with a snarling scream as the spring-loaded guitar deployed in the verses steps off the cliff it has been stepping towards and releases a canyon, filling wail the whirls and unwinds with thrashing violence. Fans of Black Country New Road, IDLES, and Pissed[...]

Famous Friend – “Nora”

February 21, 2024

Los Angeles based writer/producer/artist Zachariah Carlson a.k.a Famous Friend (check our previous feature on them here) returned to the spotlight last year with the viral sensation “Tanlines.” Carlson has tapped into his indie pop muse again for the new single “Nora,” a brooding, sun-bleached surf pop track. The new song is a pink-hued heat haze, featuring bubbling bass that pairs with programmed drum beats that staccato with a aerosol chill. Carlson wields atmosphere masterfully as he hooks you with washed out guitar melodies and a chorus that is eerie and romantic. You’ll easily find yourself bobbing along with “Nora’s” chorus belting out the line “Been trying to ignore Nora, put your hands my neck but I can’t help but adore ya…”. Fans of Wallows, The Drums, Dayglow, Chromatics, or Magnetic Fields can find lots to love on this track. Listen to the new single “Nora” from Famous Friend on Youtube[...]

Divorce Culture – “FM”

February 21, 2024

Jacksonville’s alternative rockers Divorce Culture have just released the incendiary new lead single for their upcoming EP. Their new alt-rock cut “FM” features lead guitar that scorches as it cleaves through the melodious track, reminiscent of the wicked riffs from Dinosaur Jr. That lead guitar wails on top of a bed of rock solid mids and lows created by rhythm, bass and drum all working together to create a cavernous thunder melody that fills your chest while lead guitar crackles and arcs above it. Their lead vocals hold a satisfying weight, each lyric plotted and delivered with mellow menace that expands with harmonized goodness during the chorus. Divorce Culture show strong songcraft chops throughout the whole track, verses link seamlessly into catchy, impactful choruses that you want to hear over and over, each building to a breakdown that opens into deeply rewarding final chorus. Listen to the new single “FM”[...]

Mary Middlefield – “Heart’s Desire”

February 13, 2024

Switzerland based artist Mary Middlefield is a burgeoning singer-songwriter who reshaped herself during the pandemic after being a classically trained violinist for most of her life. She released her debut LP last year and is already releasing more new music, the most recent being “Heart’s Desire,” an indie cut filled with sharp daggers of unrequited love. The new single’s clean guitar melody intertwines with a hushed backbeat with seamless fluidity that feels like the quickened pulse you get in the orb of influence of your infatuation. This musicality matches Middlefield’s writing perfectly, her stanzas are filled with yearning for a crush that’s doomed because of their age difference. The new song has atmosphere and effortless flow that will sweep you into its current. Fans of Jeff Buckley, Phoebe Bridgers/boygenius, or Lucy Dacus will find lots to love on Middlefield’s new single. Listen to “Heart’s Desire” the new release from Mary[...]

Landon Conrath – “Replay”

February 13, 2024

Landon Conrath is a young artist but has quickly built both his catalog and a passionate fan base that has branched well beyond his home of Minneapolis. Since his debut in 2022, Conrath has continued gaining momentum with new single “Replay,” a livewire electropop track soaked in messy entanglements. Layered and processed vocals dance hand in hand with a romantic guitar melody as Conrath starts a fall into the memories of a past love, every reminisce causing a wince deeper than the last. He has a undeniable talent for textures, which you’ll hear as the track shifts from crooning guitar to breathy verses, perfectly placed between an electro glitch rhythm that matches the untethered torrent of jealousy, loathing, love, and lust that flood you as you run into a messy ex-love, IRL or digitally. “Replay” hits strongest as Conrath belts out the chorus “Alcohol and mental arrest, when I saw[...]

False Corners – “Where Is My Blood (feat. Emily Backus)”

February 8, 2024

Atlanta based False Corners is the culmination of mutual love and admiration, their debut EP Shoobie shows that in each cut. The group is centered on the duo of songwriter Jack Shaw and artist-producer Damon Moon, then each of their songs features a different guest singer. The first single of the project has just released – it is the stunningly beautiful “Where Is My Blood” that features Emily Backus’ mellifluous singing which pierces the heart with radiant clarity. The songcraft on the new song is apparent and Backus’ dynamic vocal performance highlights the songwriting gift that Shaw has. The song opens with an arresting couplet from Backus with only acoustic backing, reminiscent of Neutral Milk Hotel, then lets Backus’s voice soar like a lark’s song. After the opening grips you, the verse’s sound thickens by bringing in organ, bass, and a backbeat drum rhythm. Then, Shaw seamlessly drops into the[...]

Cameron Sonnier – “Burning To Death”

February 5, 2024

“Burning To Death” is a dense, rich, rhythmic exploration of the inner self, and it marks the second single from promising Houston-based artist Cameron Sonnier‘s sophomore album Synchronicity.  Sonnier creates a reflective space with layers of textures that lay over one other, all following a rhythmic pulse that pushes its meditative beat into your subconscious. The new song’s use of guitar dynamics is irrestible – high-toned picked melodies shift into strummed percussive rhythms that create a hypnotic space that swirls into the song’s production. Thick synths buzz and burn creating an incendiary quality that seems to ignite the next slow burning tone as Sonnier’s singing echoes into the chasm of your mind, which is now unfurling in a blossoming shape due to Sonnier’s wizardry. Fans of Boards of Canada, Emeralds, Animal Collective, and Aphex Twin will find lots to love on this new track. Listen to Cameron Sonnier’s new single[...]

Pretty Bitter – “Roadkill”

February 5, 2024

Grab those ear huggers and let the D.C. based Pretty Bitter catapult you into a joyous scorcher of a new song they are calling “Roadkill.” The new indie-rock single is an ecstatic blend of break neck rock a la Charly Bliss and Marnie Stern mixed with the pop sensibilities of Hole or The Cranberries. Drummer Jason Hayes will make your chest sweat with a frenetic rock beat jammed with tongue wagging fills while Chris Hayes bites into that ceaseless rhythm like a pitbull with fraying guitar work that ignites and sizzles as it flies by. The lead songwriters Em Bleker and Miriam Tyler harness that electric impressionist energy and bend it to their wills, creating verses that flip the sonics from contrasting gut punches to a sumptuous neon tangerine that carry their joyous spirit and feminist-bent lyrics. Fans of Julia Jacklin, Sylvan Esso, and Passion Pit should let these indie[...]

Joyer – “Star”

February 3, 2024

NYC/Boston based Joyer is the combined talents of brothers Nick & Shane Sullivan, and they just released their new indie/slowcore single, “Star.” The new cut has a wash of layered guitars that shift the tint of the track, each wash feeling like a filter that the song is passing through to get to your ears. Those layers work like sliding wave forms that align for a moment of clarity before passing back into dissonant relation with one another, creating that dispersed guitar sound that feels like wandering in a memory. “Star” uses that slowcore sound adeptly, with the Sullivan brothers pairing their sound with nostalgic daydreams. Here is Joyer talking about their new song; “Star is kind of a slice of life of the summer I was having when I wrote it. It has small fragments of different days. Some boring days at home mixed with bits about camping on[...]

amph. – “Engraved”

February 2, 2024

Artist Anthony Carl Fritz has been dropping new music under the his moniker amph. over the last year and the latest, “Engraved,” is a guitar driven alt-rock melodic jam that is sliced from modern life. Fritz writes about love’s ability to break the slow strangle of modernity, and how far one goes to keep their other half from sinking into that miasma. Fritz’s lyrics resonate with the shared experiences we have while his fuzzy warm guitar melodies manifest that fulfilling love with full guitar tones. The picked guitar phrases in the verses merge into a churning bloom of layered big guitar sound in the refrain effortlessly. The chorus is well crafted hook that plays into the light composition of the verses, letting it roll over you like a swell of a rolling tide. Listen to “Engraved” from amph. now on Spotify and Apple Music. amph. · Engraved

The Juniper Berries – “Online”

January 29, 2024

Austin based multi-instrumentalist Josh Stirm is the architect of The Juniper Berries and has formed the tracks for his upcoming album, Death and Taxes, by distilling grief and dissonance into melancholic yet cathartic tunes that simultaneously breaks your heart and mends you with each note. Stirm had his Grandfather and brother pass away in 2020 and that experience has defined this stage in his life and his music, filling it with harrowing pain and world tilting revelations. The poignant and masterfully-paced new single “Online” is a thrilling taste of his upcoming album that is due out this April. Stirm weaves textures and tones with his delicately harmonized vocals with an ingenious skill. He places tantalizing spaces between words and notes that creates a irresistible pacing that will enrapture you. Stirm has the capacity to illuminate dark venerable corners of human experience, as he sings “I found my baby online, next[...]

SAMSARA – “Piece of Me”

January 29, 2024

Five piece rock outfit SAMSARA are a young group but have quickly become a loved piece of the Queens/Long Island music scene. The band has cut their chops by playing local festivals and winning battle and the bands, and continue to elevate their craft by working with acclaimed producers. Their latest single, “Piece of Me,” is exemplary of the melodic alt-rock sound they have been nurturing over the past few years. The new song has bombastic drums that pound your chest, incendiary dueling guitar melodies, and vocals that are soulful and impassioned. Listening to the fat wails of guitar will make you want to see their high energy live show to witness the young rockers hypnotize you with their big rock sound. Fans of Kings of Leon, The Kooks, and JAPANDROIDS with find lots to love on this one. Listen to SAMSARA’s new single “Piece of Me” on Spotify, and[...]