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Milemarker - Anaesthetic

Milemarker - Anaesthetic

by Anal Nunchuks on Wed, Aug 27, 2025

Anal's birth is the worst thing happening in 2001

The year is 2001. America is reeling from 9/11, and the world would be irrevocably changed geopolitically. More importantly, I was born. Unrelated to all that, post-hardcore was undergoing a metamorphosis. Once straddling the line between noise rock and hardcore punk, “post-hardcore” bands started tilting in every direction. At the Drive-In embraced progressive rock and technical wizardry, the emo movement was burgeoning, and on the horizon loomed a shadow named MySpace.
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Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide

by annalise on Sun, Aug 24, 2025

The Gen Z really has it rough

Everyone reading this godforsaken article has remembered the early 2000s differently. My parents, idiosyncratic children of the sixties and seventies, were having the time of their lives at the turn of the century, going to rock clubs, playing music, driving from California to Michigan to Texas, getting impulsively married in ‘02 and having me in early ‘03. I had a decent, if not odd upbringing, with my father being a full-time musician.
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Selena - Dreaming of You

Selena - Dreaming of You

by ScoopMeister on Mon, Aug 4, 2025

At least we have some variety with this project

The previous albums on this project have led me to the conclusion that there’s (probably) no such thing as music that’s actually interesting. This fact appears to be doubly true for the year of my birth, Anno Domini 1995. With that in mind, I’ve gone for a slightly different strategy and chosen an album which hopefully makes up in interesting context what it lacks in interesting content: Dreaming of You, the fifth and final album by Mexican-American singer Selena.
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