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Top 10 2022 Alternative Summer Anthems

Top 10 2022 Alternative Summer Anthems

Ben Milburn, SM2 Music Reporter | September 14, 2022

For this list I’m going to cover my personal top ten tracks released in the summer of 2022. For songs to be considered they’d have to be released between May 6 and August 22, the end of the Spring...

Carter’s Countdown: Top 100 Songs

Carter’s Countdown: Top 100 Songs

June 11, 2022

90. No Vaseline – Ice Cube: One of the greatest diss tracks to ever grace the planet of Earth. This song is about the fallout of the legendary group NWA and Ice Cube destroyed them. No Vaseline takes...

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard hop genres on 'Omnium Gatherum'

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard hop genres on ‘Omnium Gatherum’

Jessica Besnard and Jessica Besnard | May 4, 2022

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, a wonderfully erratic band known for genre-hopping and psychedelic rock, released their latest album ‘Omnium Gatherum’, which continues what their signature sound. The...

Devmaccc celebrates another April 20 with his latest project

Devmaccc celebrates another April 20 with his latest project

Jeremiah Henry and Jeremiah Henry | April 27, 2022

Mississippi Rapper Devmacc has released his third installment to his famed four twenty series with the latest project, ‘Four.Twenty: Sessions 3’.  Dev’s latest addition to the ‘Four.Twenty’...

Father John Misty’s ‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’ swings into jazzy old Hollywood

Father John Misty’s ‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’ swings into jazzy old Hollywood

Jessica Besnard and Jessica Besnard | April 27, 2022

Father John Misty, also known for drumming in the folk band Fleet Foxes, released ‘Chloë and the Next 20th Century’, which feels like a love letter, with all its ache, sealed with a kiss. It is...

Pusha T returns with ‘It’s Almost Dry’, a potential album of the year

Pusha T returns with ‘It’s Almost Dry’, a potential album of the year

Koby Moore and Koby Moore | April 27, 2022

Last Friday, Pusha T dropped ‘It’s Almost Dry’ which is his follow up to the Grammy-nominated album ‘Daytona’. This album follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, excelling in its genre. The...

Jack White releases ‘Fear Of The Dawn’: the first of two solo albums

Jack White releases ‘Fear Of The Dawn’: the first of two solo albums

Jessica Besnard and Jessica Besnard | April 21, 2022

Jack White, the lead singer and guitarist of The White Stripes, released his new album titled ‘Fear Of The Dawn.’ This is his fifth solo album and the first of two he’s planning to release this...

Red Hot Chili Peppers reunite with spunky ‘Unlimited Love’

Red Hot Chili Peppers reunite with spunky ‘Unlimited Love’

Jessica Besnard and Jessica Besnard | April 13, 2022

Red Hot Chili Peppers released their reunion-like album ‘Unlimited Love’, marking their return with John Frusciante back on guitar after his electronic solo projects and over a decade split from the...

Foo Fighters craft temporary metal persona with 'Dream Widow'

Foo Fighters craft temporary metal persona with ‘Dream Widow’

Jessica Besnard and Jessica Besnard | April 7, 2022

Foo Fighters, or mostly just the lead vocalist Dave Grohl, released ‘Dream Widow’, a metal EP, under the fictional band Dream Widow from their horror-comedy film ‘Studio 666.’ The EP was released...

'Mainstream Sellout' recycles pop-punk cliches

‘Mainstream Sellout’ recycles pop-punk cliches

Benjamin Milburn and Benjamin Milburn | April 6, 2022

‘Mainstream Sellout’ is the sixth studio album put out by arguably the most polarizing artist in the rock scene, Machine Gun Kelly, who showed growth but delivered a mixed performance on the project. This...

Sonic Youth returns with avant-garde recordings from 2000-2010 with 'In/Out/In'

Sonic Youth returns with avant-garde recordings from 2000-2010 with ‘In/Out/In’

Jessica Besnard and Jessica Besnard | March 27, 2022

Sonic Youth, a noisy rock band that formed in the early 80s and split in 2011, released an album of unreleased songs recorded between 2000-2010. ‘In/Out/In’ is the root of Sonic Youth’s soul, containing...

With Fame Comes Hate: Why does everyone dislike MGK?

With Fame Comes Hate: Why does everyone dislike MGK?

Benjamin Milburn and Benjamin Milburn | March 27, 2022

Colson Baker, also known as Machine Gun Kelly, is one of the most polarizing figures in the music industry. He is primarily hated by fans of the rock scene, and more specifically the pop-punk scene. So...

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