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New Music Friday: 5 Songs You Need to Hear This Week (7/3)

This week, New Music Friday brings us tracks from the incomparable Billy Strings, Boston’s own Living Weapon, and BLXCKPUNKS.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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Happy New Music Friday! It’s always nice when these fall on holiday weekends because there’s so much more time to excavate the new tunes.

This week leans particularly heavy, just because that’s what spoke to me. However, we do lead with an unassuming track that I’ve been obsessing over. Scroll on for the full list!

“Burn The Other End” by Billy Strings

Billy motherf**king Strings, man. What an insanely talented guy.

This week, the bluegrass virtuoso dropped “Burn the Other End”, a folk-gothic tour de force, and the lead single from his forthcoming album, So Much For Goodbyes. The new song has very familiar qualities, which are necessary in conjunction with how........

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