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October Round Up


Boo! Happy October everyone, or rather, Spooktober. I love everything spooky, and this month has been pretty freaky. I've been posting on the Facebook page and culminating a few posts for next month. Anyways, round up time!





I'm loving these guys. They have an older pop punk sound that's something I never appreciated fully. There For A Reason is one of my favorites because it sets the mood for a spooky October with its 80's horror movie synth intro. 





Stars Hollow is pretty cool. They're essentially a mixture of Tiny Moving Parts and Free Throw, both of which are some of my favorite bands. They've got some nice mathy bits on guitar and mix it with some emo vocals; good stuff!





Slick Shoes is new for me, but they've been around since the 90's. They released their newest album Rotation & Frequency after 17 years which is wild. To not make any content as a group for that long and to make some pretty good music it's impressive





Similar to Belmont without the quick guitar sweeps. Crisp vocals with a varying pop punk sound and tempo. Honestly I'll have to look into em more as this was their only song I've heard.





I feel like Our Last Night has been around forever. I had to look and their first album came out in '08 and here they are in 2020 releasing consistently quality music. The mixture of covers and their own music helps them stand out in my opinion. Bronze Serpent is really good as it switches styles and has superb vocals.



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Thanks for checking in to this months roundup! I'll be posting on the Facebook page a few times per week and want to try to keep up with the 2 posts per month on here. Any suggestions on either format is greatly appreciated! Peace



One last thing that will probably be unique to this post, the image size. Same acquisition method but uploaded via bloggers app instead of via web. Looks wonky on mobile so apologies

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