Jagged City started as a long-distance conversation between two people who’d spent years in different corners of guitar-driven music—Jake Woodruff from Defeater, Carlos Torres from his time touring with Explosions In The
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Oslo’s Feral Nature don’t mess around with half-measures. Their new video for “Cradle of Twigs & Bone” ditches the safety
Toronto’s madfolk are over apologizing for the stuff they grew up on. Their new single “Katherine” hit January 21st through
There’s this Lee Bains + the Glory Fires record from 2022 called Old-Time Folks that Luke Ottenhof keeps coming back
Jimy Dawn describes Shaun Day Woods as both a magician and a musician. The distinction matters when you’re trying to
When Josh, the bassist for Middle–Aged Queers, pitched covering Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” frontman Shauners was skeptical. Then Josh
“Vell i cabrejat” translates roughly to “old and pissed off,” which is about as straightforward as it gets. It’s one
Argentine instrumental outfit Monovoth returns with “To live in the Breath of Worship,” an album born from turbulence both personal
Dean Cass and Matt Sullivan have been playing together since 2009, when they met in Fremantle during Cass’s backpacking trip
When you finally cover a band that shaped how you think about hardcore, it means something. São Paulo’s Questions are
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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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Before there was a plan for a release, there was just a house outside Boston where four people lived, worked, and slowly stopped separating music from everything else. The studio went into the basement. Video gear stayed upstairs. Songs got written between meals and
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Dramatist didn’t arrive quietly. Before anyone outside the circuit had a track
“Always Looking Behind” arrives January 14, with a self-made video following on
“Three two one, one two three. Hang a Nazi from a tree.”
The Bilbao-based band Alkuperä are joining us today with a special premiere
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The Indonesian crossover/metallic hardcore band NYCTO sees them as foundational — embedded in authority, relationships, and the everyday machinery of recognition. Their new single “Crowned of Lies” featuring Ramadhan of Ratel Beast cuts through the polite acceptance of deception that most people treat as
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For years, if they wrote something too clean, they’d wreck it on
“Matrimony” sounds like eighties synth-pop refracted through the lens of people who’ve
Mike Bromberg says he was lucky. Born in New York when the
When a band has been around for 45 years, the word return
