Despite the two year absence, The McAllenite continued to listen and support RGV music. Here are some highlights from the past year, featuring a dream-pop surprise, a spirited tribute to Harajuku, and some jarring experimental music. It’s good to be back and we’re ready for 2025.
Read MorePart 2 of this roundup of select 2023 RGV singles includes a kawaii metal surprise, soulful drama, and a moving experimental collaboration.
Read MoreA recap of RGV singles so far this year (part 1). We got intoxicating art-pop, stimulating tech-house, a devastating Olivia Rodrigo cover, and more.
Read MoreThe quantity of local EP/album releases is decreasing, but not the quality. This past year was full of unforgettable collaborations, thematically dedicated masterpieces, and homegrown inspiration. Enjoy.
Read MoreSome of the most distinguished RGV songs to put in our 2022 vault. These are the singles that made us dance, reflect, brood, and get fired up. There are magical indie soundscapes, a wide range of singer-songwriter bliss, and a cumbia anthem that took the RGV by storm.
Read MoreAn expansive jazz album with profound reflection on the crises of today, and the possibilities of the future.
Score: 9/10
Read MoreA roundup of new RGV music, with some lamenting singer-songwriters, a thrilling anime tribute, and gothic cumbia fun.
Read MoreA roundup of recent RGV music releases, featuring a home-themed cumbia mixtape, some ambitious art-rock, and soul-stirring singer-songwriters.
Read MoreThe final album from Paolo Honey distills the essence of his pop and bossa nova serenades into his warmest experience.
Score: 9/10
Read MoreCity of Dawn’s most recent collaboration delivers his most distinguished and powerful take on meditative music.
Score: 9/10
Read MoreRevery curtails the synthwave of albums past, in favor of more dynamic metal, creating his most adventurous album yet.
Score: 7/10
Read MoreA roundup of new RGV music, featuring blissful indie-pop, corrido melancholy, and politically charged electropunk.
Read MoreCompilation of new RGV songs, including a 90s-freestyle summer dream, a sentimental music video school project that earned an A, and the 10-year return of a punk supergroup.
Read MoreSome of the latest singles and EPs from some of the RGV’s greatest creative minds, featuring a sincere remix of the RGV’s most infamous song, alt-hip hop with plenty of conviction, and vivid ambient journeys.
Read MoreA roundup of recent RGV singles, and a few we missed earlier this year, including some prog-rock adventures, sincere ballads, and moody meditative pop.
Read MoreDancey breakbeats lead to punk breakdowns in Pillowsnake’s dynamic comeback single.
Read MoreA compilation of Rio Grande Valley music singles from 2022 so far, featuring a myriad of hip-hop flavors, a cumbia tribute to the RGV, and ambient soundscapes to get into your headspace.
Read MoreThe long-awaited single by UYDB is here, slicing and dicing in a fit of emo passion.
Read MorePart one of this grunge double album, with enough punchy riffs, sharp lyrics, and potent mood to stand on its own.
Score: 8/10
Read MoreThe most refined album from the RGV’s horror raconteur. An ambitiously concentrated approach that leaves no room for gimmicks.
Score 8/10
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