Three founding members leaving your band in 2023 is, by most measures, the kind of thing that kills a project. For Giante — a post hardcore / emo outfit from Vitoria-Gasteiz in
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“This is all very bleak.” Andrew Elter‘s opening note on “Collateral Damage” isn’t a warning label — it’s the point.
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Six tracks, four members, and a recurring question that runs through all of it: how much weight can a body
Sokratous 26, in Omonoia at the dead centre of Athens, was running as a musicians’ building since the early 2000s
The name Gr4v1 is lifted from Roadside Picnic — the Strugatsky brothers’ novel where the zones surrounding an alien visitation
Northeast England’s Gate Hound didn’t form so much as accumulate — which is funny, given that the whole point of
There’s a line in guitarist Justin Smith’s notes about the current state of recorded music that lands harder than most
Callum Howe writes most of The Shits’ lyrics either hungover or drunk. The distinction matters. Hangover lyrics carry something pathetic,
Every Sunday at Lindbergs Tavern in Springfield, Missouri, there’s an open jam. It’s the kind of thing that sounds unremarkable
A blood alcohol level so high the nurse couldn’t believe Jeff Corso was still talking. Somewhere in the middle of
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Half an hour outside Annecy, in a rural hamlet called Marcelette, there’s a barn that doubles as a workshop. It belongs to Lolo’s father. It’s also where The Blue Marmalades — Chris,
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Six notes on a guitar, looped and warped through pedals until it barely sounds like a guitar anymore. That’s how “Unencumbered” begins — not with the math-heavy chaos Las Vegas trio Annelida became known for, but with something slower, more spacious, built on tension
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A small Buddha magnet sat on the piano while Ania Babrakowska wrote.
Twenty-six years after its original release, Hudson Valley, NY’s Joshua went back
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Oceano’s “Mass Produced” was the exact moment Nic Heidt checked out. Not from metal itself — from the sound of it. “That was the impetus for me to do this whole thing,” he says. The tones had calcified. The drums hit the same. Everything
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Forked are a hardcore band currently scattered between Germany and Poland, but
Sydney punk duo Smallways. didn’t sit down and plan a conceptual two-part
Four people in a practice space in Mabgate Bleach, Leeds, recording short,
One hundred and fifty people read the same poem. Their voices were
