Volta formed in 2011 between Novara and the lake district of the surrounding province, far from any musical circuit worth naming. For over a decade, they’ve operated at a distance from the
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Nine years is a long time to leave people hanging, but Antwerp’s Toxic Shock are making it count. “Creeping Reaper”
Six tracks, four members, and a recurring question that runs through all of it: how much weight can a body
Sokratous 26, in Omonoia at the dead centre of Athens, was running as a musicians’ building since the early 2000s
Milan Trachta — Mr. Banana to anyone who spent time on the European hardcore circuit — didn’t set out to
The name Gr4v1 is lifted from Roadside Picnic — the Strugatsky brothers’ novel where the zones surrounding an alien visitation
There’s something about Italian screamo that hits the same nerve as the French variety — that particular European register of
Northeast England’s Gate Hound didn’t form so much as accumulate — which is funny, given that the whole point of
There’s a line in guitarist Justin Smith’s notes about the current state of recorded music that lands harder than most
Callum Howe writes most of The Shits’ lyrics either hungover or drunk. The distinction matters. Hangover lyrics carry something pathetic,
A blood alcohol level so high the nurse couldn’t believe Jeff Corso was still talking. Somewhere in the middle of
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Half an hour outside Annecy, in a rural hamlet called Marcelette, there’s a barn that doubles as a workshop. It belongs to Lolo’s father. It’s also where The Blue Marmalades — Chris,
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Six notes on a guitar, looped and warped through pedals until it barely sounds like a guitar anymore. That’s how “Unencumbered” begins — not with the math-heavy chaos Las Vegas trio Annelida became known for, but with something slower, more spacious, built on tension
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A small Buddha magnet sat on the piano while Ania Babrakowska wrote.
Twenty-six years after its original release, Hudson Valley, NY’s Joshua went back
Chicago, goth-pop duo, ClubDrugs premieres their incandescent new single, “Overdose.” With its
There’s a specific kind of punk band that stays interesting because they
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Oceano’s “Mass Produced” was the exact moment Nic Heidt checked out. Not from metal itself — from the sound of it. “That was the impetus for me to do this whole thing,” he says. The tones had calcified. The drums hit the same. Everything
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Forked are a hardcore band currently scattered between Germany and Poland, but
Sydney punk duo Smallways. didn’t sit down and plan a conceptual two-part
Four people in a practice space in Mabgate Bleach, Leeds, recording short,
One hundred and fifty people read the same poem. Their voices were
