reviews
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Music’s Gimmick Crisis
Everything is a gimmick. Everyone is a gimmick. If you want to be discovered you need a gimmick. How will the algorithm chose you without a gimmick? I don’t have anything cool about me or my music, I need a… Continue reading
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March 27, 2026
We typically are blessed with one Friday each year that releases a significant amount of sensational music. Last year, it was March 7th. This year, 385 days later, March 27th has blessed us with a near bottomless amount of sensational… Continue reading
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Drew Lamps 2025 Favs
This is long. As such, here are your hyperlinks:Intro || Honorable Mentions || Dishonorable Mentions || Gaga & Español || The List Welcome. If you never search, you’ll only ever be exposed to easily digested mass-produced personality-removed audio. After a… Continue reading
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Drew Lamp’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure Albums
Fair warning, this will be a long read. Everyone has some guilty pleasure music. It’s even more guilty when you know the artist is lacking, their career derailed, or the music is straight up not good. That doesn’t stop your… Continue reading
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I Love My Computer, and Ninajirachi
It has been many, many years since a debut dance project blew me away. The last time I heard an electronic debut that really blew me was ISOxo & Knock2’s project niteharts, and it’s still the best bass house &… Continue reading
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The Accessibility, Variance, and Future of Hardcore
It’s really no secret hardcore music has the most eyes on it in history. What was once a basement scene destined for parking lots and extremely stinky rooms is being invited to award shows and billed as headliners. So many… Continue reading
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Music’s Slop Crisis
If there will be any defining feature of the 2020s culture… it’ll be slop. Slop is the low effort mass produced garbage meant to bait algorithms and discourse. It’s infiltrated almost every medium of culture we have already: the dozens… Continue reading
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3 Days, 3 Concerts
The pre-summer tours that hit Boston are always so fun for me. It’s pretty cool seeing the region become a destination for live music, especially after growing up here and having 1 to 2 venues for any touring acts. In… Continue reading
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The Post-Brexit Invasion
Depending on who you ask, you might hear rumblings about how the British Invasion of American music never ended. Originally coined in the mid-60s for some of the best music made by a bunch of blokes such as: The Beatles,… Continue reading
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The Greatest Country Album You’ve Never Heard
I Looked Out by Greg Freeman Many years ago, I shared a post on instagram about how to find really wack genres of music & bands that are associated with them using a website called everynoiseatonce. Sadly, it’s broken now… Continue reading
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