Eleven tracks, eleven angles on the same collapsing city. Ko-ma’s debut album “Anthropolis“ — out now via Kinsfolk, Ma Saret, Tout Doux, No Need Name, and Coeur sur toi — is a
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Final Gasp headed out on a North American run just as “New Day Symptoms” came out February 27 on Relapse
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The Warren is about a mile from Gerry LaFemina’s house, which means extra vocals get tracked on a whim, organs
The first piece written for “Immobilism” takes its name from a way of painting—tenebrism, the heavy contrast of light and
The first dizzying seconds of “Necessities” don’t build toward anything. They circle. A pulse locks in, then tightens, as if
“You better take the long way to see it through / Don’t care about the wrong way, got better things
A blown-out bass line, two minutes and eight seconds, and a title that says more than it first appears to.
There’s a moment in “From Home They Run” where everything briefly lifts — tension gives way to something close to
There’s a line buried in “Albatros” — “My nest is a boat / With which I sail Oceans and Seas”
There’s a point where background noise stops being harmless and starts getting on your nerves. Wreckonize lock into that exact
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Dave Graney gave Royal Commission an early nod on Triple R after playing “The Woman (Who Cannot Be Named),” singling out the fact that Dean Robb had recorded the whole thing on
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Chevreuil have always treated the duo format like a piece of engineered performance architecture. Julien F. and Tony C. formed the band in 1998 after meeting three years earlier at art school, then stripped the setup down until it behaved less like standard rock
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“The End Of War” was already a warning shot. “The Cry of
Not many bands can play this hard and still make it stick
4am, phone in hand, watching protest livestreams from Wright Park in Tacoma.
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The first time Hark! A Shark! properly came back, Nat Cottingham got to watch her kids watch the band. After years of feeling like music was still around her but not quite accessible to her anymore, that part landed hard. “At our comeback show
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Anti-Corpos have been doing this long enough to know what punk says
Some bands spend years trying to sound this direct. General Chaos got
The image that holds Airline’s new EP together is an old one:
The first surprise in hearing J. Robbins’ new mix of “The Draft”
