For a stretch there — around the mid-2010s, give or take — the internet consensus on post-rock was that the well had dried up. Too many builds, too many crescendos, too many
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Bengaluru four-piece Maneating Orchid have built “Cosmic Shroud” without a single bar of 4/4 in it, and the song still
Brat Farrar started as one person and grew into four. That’s not the usual direction. Sam Agostino made the early
Blunt Force came together when their guitarist clocked their future vocalist’s No Time shirt at a Spectral Voice show and
Gareth Smith keeps a notebook for titles. Most come from books. The one for Alarm!’s second LP came from Josh
Thirteen years after forming in Bergamo as a Misfits tribute act, The Crimson Ghost have closed the horror trilogy they’ve
When a Barcelona band lands on IDIOTEQ, the expectation usually goes one way. Emo, maybe screamo, definitely something melodic with
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“Only Dark Shit” wasn’t an easy title to keep. The cuss in it means YouTube clips honeybee’s videos, ad platforms flag every promotion, and the Cleveland band gets dinged any time they try to push the record online. They kept it anyway. “In the
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There was a stretch in the early 00s where ripping a lead
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Tæl have always had a single technical question at the center of the project: can one bass do what a guitar and a bass usually do together? Antonio, the Oslo duo’s bassist and only original member, has been working on the answer since the
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Michael Stipe probably hasn’t heard the new Tojo Yamamoto 7-inch yet, but
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