There’s something unusually patient about releasing music that was written nearly three decades ago. Reagnition by Reagnition Reagnition’s self-titled 12″ on Refuse Records is the completion of unfinished business from 1996, when
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Bristol trio Epimetheus play in drop F. The guitar is a self-assembled baritone with an aluminium neck. The bass sits
French screamo โ whenever I hear those two words together, I’m immediately in. There’s something about that combination that just
If you’re after a record that throws crossover, thrash, and hardcore into a blender and never once hits pause โ
Early โ90s Finland wasnโt exporting punk with today’s modern mainstream vibe or cheap slogans โ it was exporting noise, anger,
Some songs just land at the right time. “Happier,” the new single from Cincinnati’s The Silkies, is one of those
A sandstorm rolls through a village in southern Morocco. The air is thick with particles. Carlos Ibarra โ the composer
Someone, at some point, decided to wire a synthesizer into a punk song, and it was one of the better
One of the best things about surviving a psychologically traumatic yet physically impacting invisible injury, at least for me, is
A one-man instrumental project walks out of a decade-long drawer and straight into the kind of territory where post-rock trades
A south east London four-piece recording shoegaze in a living room with a podcast mic โ that’s where Foolspring made
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Three years since their last record VOR, the German outfit formerly called Tourette Boys comes back swinging. Thanks, I Hate It drops Friday through Exile On Mainstream, and the title tells you
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There’s this Lee Bains + the Glory Fires record from 2022 called Old-Time Folks that Luke Ottenhof keeps coming back to these days. Bains is from Birmingham, Alabama, and his songsโanarcho-Skynyrd punk-rock, as Ottenhof puts itโtell stories of resistance and solidarity from the American
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“Vell i cabrejat” translates roughly to “old and pissed off,” which is
Argentine instrumental outfit Monovoth returns with “To live in the Breath of
When you finally cover a band that shaped how you think about
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There’s a version of this song that could’ve ended up on a bigger record. New Vision (featured here on IDIOTEQ back in 2023) thought about it, then decided against it. “Daze,” released January 28 with an accompanying music video, is a deliberate standalone, a
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Oslo’s Feral Nature don’t mess around with half-measures. Their new video for
Toronto’s madfolk are over apologizing for the stuff they grew up on.
Jimy Dawn describes Shaun Day Woods as both a magician and a
When Josh, the bassist for Middle–Aged Queers, pitched covering Mazzy Star’s “Fade
