Since I Love Your Lifestyle dropped “Summerland” back in 2024, nothing in the emo-adjacent world has grabbed us with quite the same force — that record basically lived in our ears for
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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
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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
There’s a fixed image at the center of Give Vent’s new EP: a house that stays the same while everything
Garden Walk didn’t ease into their debut. “Does It Feel Like Home?” opens with a sound that already feels worked
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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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A blood alcohol level so high the nurse couldn’t believe Jeff Corso was still talking. Somewhere in the middle of it, apparently, he was belting out “The Warrior” by Patty Smyth at the top of his lungs. He doesn’t remember that part. He doesn’t
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Kater’s debut had a bit of an identity problem, and they’ll be
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Raging Nathans frontman heard Fat Heaven’s “Crybaby” in his car before he
Oceano’s “Mass Produced” was the exact moment Nic Heidt checked out. Not
