Three letters that have done real work in hardcore: PMA. Positive Mental Attitude. Bad Brains and HR pulled it out of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” and turned it into something
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Fall in Boston is moving season. On their debut LP “The Autumn Here,” out today, Robo Pumpkin tell the story
Twenty years into putting on shows and playing in Belgian punk and hardcore crews, the four people who became Wrvng
The opening track on Lou Lou Louie!‘s debut album “Social Smoking” is called “Kaio-ken x10”. For Dragon Ball fans, the
Every song March Dove have put out so far points to the same line. “Skyfalling”, “Buster Call”, “Descender”, “Jubilation”: all
The first time Gab De La Vega‘s name showed up on IDIOTEQ was in 2014, in an interview covering his
The ferry deal looked clean on paper. Car on board, gear on board, both ends of the trip sorted, a
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
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The drums on most of “Auralux” are demos. Michael Smyth went up to his practice space, re-skinned the kit, put fresh cymbals on it, and re-recorded everything for what was meant to
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Car vs. Driver existed for two years. Between 1993 and 1995 the Atlanta quartet put out two LPs, an EP, a split EP, a pile of compilation tracks, played scores of shows up and down the Eastern US, and built a live reputation that’s
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There was a stretch in the early 00s where ripping a lead
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Four days in northern France, summer and autumn 2025, and “The Chaser”
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Look at the cover for “WHAT I’M DOIN‘” long enough and the literal arrangement starts doing the work. Two columns of figures. On the left: a priest, a king, a peasant. On the right: a scientist, a soldier, a homeless person. Paired off across
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Tæl have always had a single technical question at the center of
Michael Stipe probably hasn’t heard the new Tojo Yamamoto 7-inch yet, but
Talking to Mono is a real honor. Twenty-seven years in, thirteen studio
Patrick Cardullo and vocalist Ignacio (Nacho) locked themselves in a practice space
