When “Senicarne” came out in July 2020, Fall Of Messiah watched it disappear into the pandemic. Four years of writing, no rooms to play it in. Three months later, Holy Roar Records
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Six months before Spanish quartet Medussa walked into OVNI Estudios in late 2025 to track their fifth LP, they swapped
The song we’re pleased to premiere today is written from the perspective of the person doing the cutting off. That’s
The band is called ‘92. Their friend Brillo, who was also born in 1992, became part of the overlap that
The opening line attached to Monkโs new single is frank enough to function as a mission statement: no one is
Nashville’s indie scene, in Dillon Wilson’s reading, has settled into a kind of polite uniform โ long-sleeves under t-shirts, the
I truly think that most modern music journalism sucks. Thereโs an argument to be made that it has always sucked.
Growing up on the road with my parents, touring felt exciting. Life in the music industry was feast or famine,
There’s a part of “Porno” Elsa Yepes doesn’t remember playing. Her brain literally cuts the recording. “My brain faces fear
The cover catches you before anything else โ a naked figure on the ground in a snowy forest, edelweiss at
The Korg Prologue that defined SSAANN‘s sound wasn’t even theirs. In the winter of 2024, Melissa Simes was stepping in
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Nicholas Pentabona wrote “Aroused” thinking about his partner, Jenice Taylor โ specifically about how she’s had several major life events through the years that made her feel trapped, and how she now
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A band in Calgary got caught making their album and song art with AI. Benjamin Howells heard about it and it steered his own record the opposite direction โ fully analog, one recurring image, a 1984 Minolta X-700 as the only camera. That image
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The new Onesie video moves through places where Ben Haberland’s father lived:
For most of their run, Boston’s rowdy oi punk rockers Badterms has
Call it post-metal or call it sludge โ the name matters less
There’s a streak of honest self-awareness in how The Ape talk about
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First spins of Under the Moon pulled me back to hearing Balthvs for the first time โ that sensual, unhurried register you get in a jazz club, music that settles next to you without pushing. Balthvs later pushed deeper into exotic psych rhythms. But
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Three letters that have done real work in hardcore: PMA. Positive Mental
SEUM came together in a Montreal parking lot. June 2019, three French
First spin on Menderbug’s new single โ the instinct was to file
Rope’s Alessio wrote this album using what he calls guided visualization in
