Sokratous 26, in Omonoia at the dead centre of Athens, was running as a musicians’ building since the early 2000s — empty offices from the 1970s gradually converted into rehearsal rooms across
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Pilori’s third album landed on February 6th on Frozen Records, ten years to the month after the Rouen four-piece opened
The cover of Tinder Youth’s debut single is one hand locked around another’s wrist. It comes from a tattoo Italian
“I genuinely feel like I am going crazy, on like a daily basis.” That’s State Power vocalist Stefan, not dressing
Before this record, Shi ran for Congress as a leftist, then stayed inside that world for a few years after
The first lonely notes of acoustic guitar on “I hope Julien is ok” are enough to tear you open before
Athens doesn’t have much of a screamo scene. Pray for Decadence know this — they built one anyway. The five-piece
The Oregon coast during king tides isn’t a calm place to film anything. Water moves where it wants, the light
The origin story for “Dane Valley,” Man Band’s lead single, is almost too on-the-nose. Chainy Rabbit — the band’s vocalist
After however many consecutive days of blast beats and feedback, something slow and open sounds less like a stylistic choice
Tromsø sits above the Arctic Circle — far enough north that summer doesn’t get dark and winter doesn’t get light.
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Alberto Cornero admits upfront that breaking down Ape Unit songs is a strange exercise. “The music we play is so fast and distorted,” he says, “that I guess it’s easier to feel
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There’s a streak of honest self-awareness in how The Ape talk about “Anticrats.” “Nothing original about it,” the Norwegian post-hardcore act says of their new single. “It’s just a big F**K YOU to MAGAs, Zionists, Putinists, and the like.” They’re right on the first
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Rob Savillo banned stage banter. Replaced it entirely with harsh noise interludes.
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The Arrivals have been gone long enough that a return record could’ve easily turned into a nostalgia lap. “Payload” doesn’t bother with that. The band’s first new album in more than 15 years is too busy staring down colonization, environmental ruin, nationalism, class power,
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There’s a very specific image that sticks: Mitsuru Tabata outside Nakano Sunplaza
Three years ago, Cathedral Bells were mapping out a hazy interior world—pulling
There’s barely any downtime in Shooting Daggers’ orbit. If they’re not playing
Doug wakes up already behind. The room isn’t his, the light’s too
