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A Married Couple Makes Loud, Direct Grunge Together as N.O.M.O.S. on "Crack It Open"

Alex and Letícia are married, and they're also the entire band behind N.O.M.O.S. That's not a small detail here. "Crack It Ope...

thisaktmusic 23 Aug, 2026

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50mething Confronts Betrayal and the Need to Feel Clean Again on "Dirty Feeling"

50mething shaped "Dirty Feeling" around a subject most songwriters avoid naming directly: infidelity, and specifically what it do...

thisaktmusic 23 Aug, 2026

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Jacob O'Neill Traces Every Stage of Getting Hurt Through Four Songs on "Toxic Love" EP

Jacob O'Neill built his debut EP around a single, honest thread: what it actually feels like when a relationship doesn't go the way...

thisaktmusic 23 Aug, 2026

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G Sharp BIG 40 Channels Grief and Warning Through Gritty Hip-Hop Rock on "Salt"

G Sharp BIG 40 didn't set out to write a protest song or a public health message. He read a news article about a young person who died ...

thisaktmusic 22 Aug, 2026

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PLAYKNOW Started Writing an Opinion Piece Before He Wrote "Is It So Hard To Be Good"

"Is It So Hard To Be Good" didn't start as a song at all. PLAYKNOW songwriter Hans Petter Stormoen was working on a fictional...

thisaktmusic 22 Aug, 2026

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Untold Jukebox Sets an 18th-Century Battle to Yacht Rock on "Rehnskiölds Fraustadt Strategy"

Untold Jukebox took a real military event from 1706, General Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld's victory at the Battle of Fraustadt during the Gre...

thisaktmusic 22 Aug, 2026

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Pete Keating Wrote "Tenderly" to Explain Why His Marriage Works

Pete Keating timed the release of "Tenderly" to land on his own wedding anniversary, and that single choice changes how the whole...

thisaktmusic 22 Aug, 2026

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