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Robo Pumpkin: Max Adams lives and breathes DIY
An interview with Max and a look at “YHITOPIFAH” As a community we easily throw around “DIY” as a way to describe anything not produced with labels. Really encompassing the do-it-yourself attitude when focusing on music and trying to craft the perfect work is really, really hard. Robo Pumpkin(Max Adams) can attest to that, with…
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The Official DIY Discord 2023 Year In Review
This year we started a small campaign as a way to see how far we could take a community. We couldn’t have guessed what came of the diy discord server and this crazy music community. These are a collection of final thoughts and rankings of releases from 2023, submitted by discord admins and mods. Thank…
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Grandview “Everything Between Paint and a Wall” 10 Years
The late winter of 2013 into the early winter of 2014 was an incredible period for emo music. Many of the albums that have come to define the genre today were released in this period, including The Hotelier’s Home, Like Noplace Is There and Foxing’s The Albatross. These two albums, now staples of the genre…
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Spending the Night with FinalBossFIght!
“FinalBossFight! showcases instrumental precision and sing-along punk hymns with their S/T” The trio based in Lansing, Michigan released their tightest work to date with their sophomore LP “FBF!’. This DIY project has had my attention for the better part of a year and I can honestly say they contribute to the exciting Michigan scene in…
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Clipboards album review/interview
It seems that we get mind-blowing releases from Michigan DIY acts almost every single week and Clipboards LP1 is par for the musical course. Written over the course of the past year, Clipboards showed off a multitude of musical talent and artistic vision. “Endless Days” paints Clipboards as something like a track team, with each…
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Looking Back at a Favorite
It already feels surreal that Fauxchella VI was only a month ago. Hundreds of like minded fans and bands gathered in the small college town of Bowling Green to celebrate music and support each other for three days. With two stages on opposing sides of Howard’s Club the music was nonstop. Even locals passing by…
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Up Next: Aren’t We Amphibians turn heads with sophomore EP “Emergency, Exit”.
Aren’t We Amphibians use “Emergency Exit” to show Southern California, and the country, who’s up next.
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Equipment: “Alt. Account” LP Review
“Alt. Account” is a fiercely sincere, incredibly relatable, and genuinely moving album start to finish, and a serious display of talent all the way through.
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Look at the Bones: “Home Sweet Home” EP
“Look At The Bones is a Seattle-based emo revival-revival project with an even mix of hunger and experience to offer the exploding PNW music scene.” On September 21, LATB handed in their “first gift to this world” , releasing the project’s first EP “Home Sweet Home”. This EP is their first release as a conglomerate,…
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