Gareth Smith keeps a notebook for titles. Most come from books. The one for Alarm!’s second LP came from Josh Bivens’ Failure By Design, a book he heard Noam Chomsky reference in
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Beyond The Styx have been ripping across Europe since 2011. Three LPs deep, over 300 shows clocked, time on stage
“blood in the seams” is the final single Trueandtrue have released before their debut album. It’s also the first song
Kids of Rage don’t feel like they ever disappeared. From the outside, with one LP in 2019 and a handful
The opening of “Poisoned Seas” sits in birdsong before a metallic hardcore crawl drops in and flattens everything around it.
The title of Hammock’s fourteenth album comes from a specific night. Two friends on LSD, both raised fundamentalist Christian, sitting
There is a particular kind of rock record that feels almost displaced now: guitars up front, choruses with no apology,
We’ve had a run of shoegaze and grunge crossover pieces on the site over the past months, and that’s no
For anyone looking to show their mum what angry, organic, driving punk sounds like when it works better than coffee,
From the first few seconds of “Inherent Violence,” Black Mantra sound like a band pulling from several shelves at once:
Slovak band Sinner Self just dropped their new single “Malignant” today across streaming services, with the official music video set
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The bad trip in “Dose” is not treated like a warning sign. For Trip Villain, it is closer to a operating condition: sweat, panic, bass pressure, body music, chemical overload, and the
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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 moves like something you could nod to in a basement. It’s the second track on the band’s forthcoming third album “Cold Logic“, out June
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“Only Dark Shit” wasn’t an easy title to keep. The cuss in
Car vs. Driver existed for two years. Between 1993 and 1995 the
There was a stretch in the early 00s where ripping a lead
“No one knows the bottom” is Wall Street talk for the moment
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São Bernardo do Campo, the city Undergust call the cradle of Brazilian punk, runs on grind and crust as much as it runs on metalworkers’ unions, skateboarding, and factory work. That’s the ground their new album came out of, and the music has moved
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For “November“, Honey VHS pulled the band off the song. The Brooklyn
In episode 3 of True Detective season 1, Marty Hart is describing
Sal Fratto’s grandmother had warned him. His maternal grandfather, in the hospice
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