Say “French screamo” around here and you’ve already got our attention. Anyone who’s followed IDIOTEQ for a while probably knows how much we love this particular corner of emotional hardcore, and GRISEVILLE
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On “010103”, New York City’s Sky Castles take the memory of a near-fatal car crash and work it into a
Long before Taking Back Sunday became one of the best-known bands associated with the early-2000s emo boom, guitarist Eddie Reyes
On “jester”, As Cities Burn vocalist and guitarist Cody Bonnette can barely stand the sight of himself in the mirror.
On “Gotta Run“, the dogs in the yard are biting each other, leaving scars that get passed off as birthmarks.
Vancouver’s novas have a pretty personal first single on their hands. “Oh Moon” starts with intimate vocals and guitar-led indie
Outspoken have spent much of 2026 doing something their singer once had serious doubts about: playing their old hardcore songs
Orange County’s rippers and IDIOTEQ-featured band DINERBOY have unleshed their new music video to their latest single, “BETTER HOME. Drawing inspiration
By the time Saving Bambi released “Cooking Up Some Girl Shit“, they’d already spent months speeding it up, changing the
Brian Steele grew up in Brooklyn with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge watching over his neighbourhood. These days he lives across the
Inherited’s “ALL 4 ONE” is fifteen minutes of groove-heavy hardcore with a serious metal streak, coming out of Terneuzen in
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Expectations were going to call their fifth album “99% Love”. Georgi Dimitrov liked the title because so much of what he’d written concerned people close to him, the relationships that had survived,
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On “Level Over Level”, Hanover, Pennsylvania’s Twist & Writhe have taken a familiar video-game frustration and turned it into a personal punk song. You’ve done everything that should get you to the next stage, put in all the work, and somehow you’re still stuck
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Terni’s Die Abete have never made easy, comfortable hardcore. Their third album,
Frank Bach went through his teens and early twenties without trying any
Turin’s Selce have been opening their gigs with “Polvere” for a while
MISERE have that kind of German post-hardcore where the vocals can get
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“Cut Thru Yr Lies” gets repeated until it’s a chant on the new single from Boston queercore band bratlash. The verses go after ICE, political propaganda and the way people in power talk about Hispanic and trans communities. There are noisy guitar parts, gang
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Gary Cherny is tired of hearing hardcore bands sing about how much
Lauren spends her working days in social media marketing. When she finishes,
A recording of Christian Farrar at fourteen opens “Earney Road Sessions“. By
Mass Confusion have squeezed six fast, old-school hardcore songs into just over
