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Kristin Kontrol Creates a Retro-Modern Dance Supernova in “X-Communicate”

With a cosmic calm taking control like a cyber virus in your brain, Kristin Kontrol has seamlessly combined retro dance pop and modern day electropop rock with her debut solo album X-Communicate. Kristin Kontrol Stirs the Supernatural Like the cool breeze of a summer blockbuster, “Show Me” opens with smooth dynamic percussion, tin drums, and wood […]

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A Duality: TUFF TURF’S “HUNGER & HAUNT”

By Liza Jill Meyers of Indie Band Guru TUFF TURF may share its name with an ’80s movie starring James Spader, but this New Jersey new wave band’s new album HUNGER & HAUNT lingers in dense suspense: the inner turmoil of a character in the heat of the climax, a montage, trying to fix their […]