Three letters that have done real work in hardcore: PMA. Positive Mental Attitude. Bad Brains and HR pulled it out of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” and turned it into something
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Sparta will always be deep in my heart, and it’s nice to see them still doing something interesting after all
Athens has been losing its free spaces for years. The squats and collectives that once hosted punk shows for nothing
Sydney’s bassist and vocalist Anto Boros reached out to Keith Buckley (Every Time I Die, Many Eyes) cold. “Worst he
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
Philipp’s grandmother was born in East Berlin in 1943. She never knew her father, fled the GDR with her mother
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.
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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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When “Senicarne” came out in July 2020, Fall Of Messiah watched it
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
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The Korg Prologue that defined SSAANN‘s sound wasn’t even theirs. In the winter of 2024, Melissa Simes was stepping in as synth lead for Milwaukee indie band Known Moons when she got her hands on one. The glittery sheen she pulled out of it
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The Wolfess arrives somewhere between worlds. On “Hunter in the Veil,” the
DC teen band PETRICHOR take aim at wealth extraction and ICE terror on “Richest Witches of the West”
You can read a thousand pieces about how 2026 teenagers are being
No Turning Back was written before the worst of it. Hold Me
First spins of Under the Moon pulled me back to hearing Balthvs
