Milan Trachta — Mr. Banana to anyone who spent time on the European hardcore circuit — didn’t set out to write a music feature. He was dealing with some health issues, had
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Undertone’s first EP “Revolt Vol. 1” goes straight for the throat. The band came together in Hengelo, Netherlands as a
Rosier are interesting for reasons that have very little to do with the usual indie-folk tag. The Montreal group don’t
HISS have been sitting with failure for a while. Not failure as drama, and not as some abstract theme to
Back in December, Bodega Dog introduced the project with “Faces“, a debut that pointed toward something worth keeping an eye
Taroug’s new album starts before he was born, with a story his mother carried into the family before he turned
There are some songs that stop belonging to the bands who wrote them. Refused’s “New Noise” is one of those.
Unstable Shapes are taking a live recording from their fourth show and putting it back to work. Today, the Minneapolis
Straight-up rock’n’roll doesn’t come up too often around here, which is exactly why High Home’s “Dead Prayers” makes sense as
April 30 has long carried a particular weight across Europe. In folklore, it is tied to Walpurgis Night, witches, bonfires,
There’s a fixed image at the center of Give Vent’s new EP: a house that stays the same while everything
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“This is all very bleak.” Andrew Elter‘s opening note on “Collateral Damage” isn’t a warning label — it’s the point. When we covered Tension last October around the “Drought” single, the Edmonton
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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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There’s a line in guitarist Justin Smith’s notes about the current state
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Northeast England’s Gate Hound didn’t form so much as accumulate — which is funny, given that the whole point of the project was to never wait on anyone. The band belongs to Samuel Morley, who at the end of 2025 left a previous band
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Every Sunday at Lindbergs Tavern in Springfield, Missouri, there’s an open jam.
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