Long before “This Room Could Be Heaven” was lined up as ZBR400, before the pre-orders and the sold-out splatter variant, Concealer were sitting in Justin’s living room in Orlando writing until four
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The image that holds Airline’s new EP together is an old one: a koi swimming against the current, trying to
The first surprise in hearing J. Robbins’ new mix of “The Draft” was how little football, etc. wanted it to
Slacker rock is one of those tags that sounds half-serious until a band decides to stand inside it without apologizing.
“The End Of War” was already a warning shot. “The Cry of Nature” sounds like Escalate stepping over the line
By the third month, the pace has already started to show. “Break My Heart Again,” out March 31, is the
10 years of “Cult”: THE CAULFIELD CULT turned doubt, burnout and self-disgust into something lasting
Released on March 31, 2016, “Cult” still feels like a document of a band catching itself in the mirror and
Dave Graney gave Royal Commission an early nod on Triple R after playing “The Woman (Who Cannot Be Named),” singling
We were in touch with Eight long before this return. The first time we spoke was back in October 2012,
There is a line running through Ebdromeer’s debut single “Leper” that lands harder than any big origin myth: a person
Blasart never moved in a straight line, and that is all over “Depravatus Christianis Sacris.” The Chilean blackened death metal
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The last time we ran a piece on Carrion Spring was in late 2023, around the release of “How it all falls away petal by petal” — a record that already felt
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Not many bands can play this hard and still make it stick melodically. Daggers have been at this long enough to know the difference — the kind of band that’s eaten from more than one table, and it shows. “El Mundo Kaput” hits like
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4am, phone in hand, watching protest livestreams from Wright Park in Tacoma.
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The name Gr4v1 is lifted from Roadside Picnic — the Strugatsky brothers’
There’s a line in guitarist Justin Smith’s notes about the current state
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Somewhere in the middle of making “Dream,” Gentilesky’s second album, Yaprak Kırdök wrote a song in her mother tongue for the first time in nearly two decades. That decision — to sing in Turkish, not Italian, not English — quietly redirected the whole record.
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Eight tracks. Eighteen-second blasts sitting next to a three-minute-forty-six closer. Los Angeles
Rovaniemi is best known for Father Christmas and tourist selfies with reindeer.
Undertone’s first EP “Revolt Vol. 1” goes straight for the throat. The
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