Talking to Mono is a real honor. Twenty-seven years in, thirteen studio albums deep, a quartet who have shaped what serious instrumental music in this register can sound like, and Taka still
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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
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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
Thirteen years after forming in Bergamo as a Misfits tribute act, The Crimson Ghost have closed the horror trilogy they’ve
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End of the Line started as a goodbye. Mike Down, who’d been screaming for Amenity and Forced Down through the
Everett Tea picked “long–tailed cat” as the lead single off their sophomore LP because it shows you the two extremes
Look at the cover for “WHAT I’M DOIN‘” long enough and the literal arrangement starts doing the work. Two columns
Last October, Andrés Pérez was in Tijuana for work. His wife suggested he reach out to a local promoter and
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A child is speaking, and the calm is the worst part. They came at night, the child says. They had fat eyes and terrible smiles. Mama hid us under the floor: me,
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There was a stretch in the early 00s where ripping a lead in a hardcore band would get you sideways looks. Tough guy gatekeeping, basically. The unwritten rule said solos belonged to metal, and if you wanted to be taken seriously in hardcore you
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“No one knows the bottom” is Wall Street talk for the moment
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The chorus on Milk St.’s new single “Just So” goes “Why are you so sad all the time,” and Jonah Wakefield wrote it to mock himself. “While dealing with my family splitting up and my father struggling mentally, I dissociated and kept writing, but
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On “Impostor Syndrome,” the latest single from their November 2025 album “Adrift,”
The Municipal Market of Vic isn’t there anymore. Power Burkas watched the
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Oh boy, I really love this kind of vibe. Beautiful earworm emo
