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Adam
@cavalettas.bsky.social
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Writer for:

Atwood Music
The Indiependent
When The Horn Blows
Hard Of Hearing Music
Critical Popcorn

Check out my blog for long-form nonsense: https://substack.com/@ultramegaok

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Adam @cavalettas.bsky.social · Feb 24
Here's my top 40 albums from 2025:

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2025 Top 40
Finally!
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My latest piece for When The Horn Blows - Dog Leash, a fantastic and catchy single from MEGASOUND whenthehornblows.com/content/2026...
MEGASOUND - 'Dog Leash' — When The Horn Blows
The result of old friends combining their power and experience to step into a new era, Dog Leash is instant-vintage slacker indie from Megasound, a supergroup formed from members of Bad Bad Habits and...
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August 17, 2026 at 6:54 PM
cavalettas.bsky.social
Wrote about King Gizz for When The Horn Blows
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - 'Level 5' — When The Horn Blows
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard step into a new realm with ‘Level 5’.
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July 15, 2026 at 12:43 PM
cavalettas.bsky.social
Here's my write-up on up-and-coming Lancashire boys Florentenes and their single Undiscovered Colours - Great tune!

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Fresh Northern Rockers Florentenes Are Impassioned and Authentic on “Undiscovered Colours” - Atwood Magazine
A modern ballad that's rough around the edges – an ode to indescribable feelings – “Undiscovered Colours” is Florentenes' attempt to bottle and make tangible the intense moments that define life and l...
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June 18, 2026 at 4:58 PM
cavalettas.bsky.social
My latest piece on Late Again and his super-cool new single If You Have A Bridge (I'm Buying). It's dream-pop bliss! whenthehornblows.com/content/2026...
Late Again - 'If You Have A Bridge (I'm Buying)' — When The Horn Blows
Written as a tribute to New York, and expressing the unique joy of finding oneself as an immigrant in a foreign city, If You Have A Bridge (I’m Buying) cruises at 90% light-speed through dream-pop sou...
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June 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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My latest piece for When The Horn Blows on Cutscene's new single Concrete Line - A nuanced and enjoyable tune about small town life whenthehornblows.com/content/2026...
CUTSCENE - 'Concrete Line' — When The Horn Blows
On ‘Concrete Line’, Cutscene come with the kind of moody, poetic rock that has flourished in the UK and Ireland in recent years.
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May 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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I reviewed the new single from Liverpool alt-rockers DBA! - Falling Out for When The Horn Blows. Check it out for loud grungy sounds!

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DBA! - 'Falling Out' — When The Horn Blows
Merseyside alt-rockers DBA! return take a different approach on new single Falling Out.
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March 10, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Wrote about the fabulous and fantastic partnership between R.A.P Ferriera and Kenny Segal for Atwood:

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‘The Night Green Side of It’: R.A.P. Ferreira and Kenny Segal Strike Gold Once Again on Another High-Concept Hip-Hop Collaboration - Atwood Magazine
R.A.P. Ferreira glides across Kenny Segal's mixes of old school beats and jazzy samples on ‘The Night Green Side of It,’ an album about loving your family, knowing your history, and being aware and co...
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March 3, 2026 at 10:01 AM
cavalettas.bsky.social
Really digging the new album from The Cribs, a special band who showed us that guitar music could still be heartfelt and authentic right at the sneering peak of Landfill Indie.

Selling A Vibe captures the sound of the 00s for a wonderfully warm Millennial nostalgia hit.

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The Cribs - A Point Too Hard To Make (Official Video)
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February 26, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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King Gizzard And The Based Lizard
kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · Feb 24
Why l do I love King Gizzard so much?
Aside from the fact that they make good music, they do things like put interviews like this in their newsletters.
6. Identity and belonging Your shows often feel like temporary communities — chaotic but safe, transcendent yet grounded. How do you think about identity and belonging within these spaces, both for the band and your audience? Is creating that collective intensity intentional? Stu: Thank you! Creating a safe and inclusive space for folks to get freaky in is really important to me and the other gizzards and sometimes hard to pull off. We try really hard! Mostly I think it’s about validating and uplifting those folks who exist outside the sphere of “normal”. If you can make your space feel like home for minorities, women, LGBTQI+, folks with disabilities, first nations and more then the others people (like me!) should also feel at home. And I guess if cis white men don’t feel at home in a space like that it might be for the best that they stay at home and don’t crash the party ha ha 4. Amplification as creative force Beyond politics, I often think of amplification as world-building — shaping space, emotion, and shared experience. How do you approach it as part of your creative philosophy? Does it carry ritualistic or ecological significance? Stu: think I’ve been doing this crazy shit for so long I don’t think of it like that too often. I tend to just “do” it, you know? I try hard to be honest, open-hearted and generous and hope that the rest follows from there. In saying that, its pretty exciting to see a stage come together and in that sense it certainly feels like world-building. Like I was saying earlier - parallel universes… Interview by Şebnem Altunkaya with Stu Mackenzie Şebnem Altunkaya is a Turkish PhD researcher with The Amplification Project at the University of Huddersfield (UK), funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Her work on Anatolian Psychedelic Rock explores the politics of amplification and the global revival of microtonal and psychedelic folk traditions — tracing how sound technologies and tuning systems become sites of resistance, belonging, and cultural memory
February 24, 2026 at 6:21 PM
cavalettas.bsky.social
Here's my top 40 albums from 2025:

open.substack.com/pub/ultrameg...
2025 Top 40
Finally!
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February 24, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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What I Think That "Respect ICE" Nu Metal Song Sounds Like Because I'm Not Listening to It

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What I Think That "Respect ICE" Nu Metal Song Sounds Like Because I'm Not Listening to It
I didn't listen to it so you don't have to
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February 2, 2026 at 10:49 PM
cavalettas.bsky.social
It's me for When The Horn Blows, writing about the sweet new record from @demobhappy.bsky.social. Love the big guitars and rhythm based songwriting from these guys!
whenthehornblows.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.

I have translated some of the highlights
A screenshot of Lala and Po from the teletubbies. The screenshot is clearly taken from someone's phone, as the borders of the tv can be seen, as well as glimpses into the apartment behind them. Po is in bed wrapped up in a blanket. The text below them reads "I know you were high at my mother-in-laws funeral..." More screenshots from the Teletubbies. Lala seems to be upset with a terrified Po. the text below reads "Did you kill the dog? Why would you do that?!" A third screenshot from the Teletubbies, this time the same scene as before. Po is wearing an apron while Lala seems to still be upset at him. The text below reads "You're nothing but a failure of a man."
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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Here are the only fridge magnets present in the flat I share with my female flatmate. Positive affirmations and Diego Maradona. The Two Genders
January 14, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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"Average penis costs $150,000" factoid actually just statistical error. Average penis costs $0 per year. Penis Georg, who lives in a cave and pays for over 10,000 penises a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Dec 18
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
cavalettas.bsky.social
My latest piece on slowhandclap's excellent and terrifying new single Horses In Transit. For When The Horn Blows - A real cool music mag!
Slowhandclap - 'Horses In Transit' — When The Horn Blows
About the unworkable schism between the irrepressible human spirit of exploration and joy, and the crushing unavoidability of late stage capitalism, Horses In Transit is about a position many of us fi...
whenthehornblows.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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My latest piece for Atwood Magazine about DEATH CULT ZOMBIE, the awesome new bop from Genesis Owusu
Genesis Owusu Takes a Spiky, Punky Swipe at the Alt-Right on “DEATH CULT ZOMBIE” - Atwood Magazine
Openly derisory of the madness of the manosphere, Genesis Owusu's heavy-handed lyricism leaves no doubt to his opinions on the men who just want to watch the world burn on “Death Cult Zombie.”
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November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
cavalettas.bsky.social
I took a virgin mary axe to his sweet baby jane
Lost my innocence to a no-good girl
Scratch my face with anvil hands
And coil my tongue 'round a bumblebee mouth
An Ode To No One - Remastered 2012
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November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
cavalettas.bsky.social
Also, 30 years since the greatest hip hop record of all time was released

Snake got smoked on the set like Brandon Lee
Blown out the frame like PAN AM Flight 103
Gold
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November 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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New Armand Hammer, produced by The Alchemist, we are truly blessed my friends
Peshawar
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November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Pick a song and sing a yellow nectarine
Take a bath, I'll drink the water that you leave
If you should die before me
Ask if you can bring a friend
Pick a flower, hold your breath
And drift away
Spotify – Web Player
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November 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
cavalettas.bsky.social
In When The Horn Blows today, about the great new single Communication from Everyone Says Hi, a really cool and awesome tune!

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Everyone Says Hi - 'Communication' — When The Horn Blows
‘Communication’, the latest single and precursor to Everyone Says Hi’s as-yet unannounced album, is about the frustration and stress of endless pings, doom-scrolling, and the compulsion to be on a dev...
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October 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.
No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I've got to let go
I've got to get straight
Why'd you have to make it so hard?
Let me get away
Various Methods of Escape
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October 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Wrote about the new Deftones record for Atwood Music, a great album by a special band 🖤
Deftones Make a Euphoric Return and Begin a New Era with 'Private Music,' Their First Album in 5 Years - Atwood Magazine
Deftones continue to evolve and grow on 'Private Music' – a glowing return for one of metal’s most precious and beloved bands, and a testament to their rare ability to remain timeless while always mov...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM