Rapha Vargas is a Brazilian photographer and audiovisual artist based in Umeå, Sweden, working with live music, subculture, and documentary-driven visual storytelling through photography and short-form video. He was there for all
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Depression Nap didn’t build a fancy website website. They barely have social media. Two shows deep and already sounding like
A spoken word project born from open mic disruptions at Ramapo College in 2014 turned into a four-piece that took
Four months after wrapping “Terminal Dissonance,” Cody Maillet and Tom Preziosi were already writing again. Wuth no lineup stability, no
Somewhere between Sainte Hélène, France and the west coast of Ireland, a guy named Charly sat down and wrote five
Bad Vacation are a five-piece punk band out of New York City, and their new EP “Life Goes On” just
House of Warmth started as a high school 4-track project in Bend, Oregon. Now it’s a six-piece heavygaze outfit grinding
Four-piece hardcore punk band Dögmën, scattered across Wallonia in Belgium, dropped their new record “All Men Must Die” on January
Murcia’s Le Mur don’t ease you into “Porno“. The second single off their forthcoming EP “Bruto” — out March 25,
Two guys from Barrie and Toronto, respectively, with over 25 years of shared history in Canadian punk, put out a
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When Angel Christian was three years old, her parents became jail ministers and started travelling to prisons across Georgia, bringing her along. “One of my first core memories is standing on the
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Los Angeles anarcho-punk four-piece Gottlieb have spent the last few years building something volatile from a co-op in central LA — two EPs, a viral track in “Scarcity” that kept resurfacing during moments of political unrest, and a live reputation that sounds like it
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A south east London four-piece recording shoegaze in a living room with
There’s this Lee Bains + the Glory Fires record from 2022 called
“Vell i cabrejat” translates roughly to “old and pissed off,” which is
Argentine instrumental outfit Monovoth returns with “To live in the Breath of
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Somewhere on Vancouver Island, between months of rain and snow and grey, Night Mirrors spent a full year putting together “Breathe Life Out” — eight songs that sound like the weather they were born from, except nothing here just sits around being atmospheric. The
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Sixteen years in and Rise Above Dead are still not done reshaping
Suffolk three-piece the Winonas — James on guitar and vocals, Kate on
When we sat down with Leisure Hour last November, they were still
You know that feeling — the one where a riff kicks in
