Rapha Vargas is a Brazilian photographer and audiovisual artist based in Umeรฅ, Sweden, working with live music, subculture, and documentary-driven visual storytelling through photography and short-form video. He was there for all
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Bristol’s Sugar Horse have announced their third album, “Not A Sound In Heaven,” due 10th April 2026 via Fat Dracula
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Three people sharing a rehearsal space in Thessaloniki for years, playing in different bands, eventually deciding to make noise together
Oslo’s Feral Nature don’t mess around with half-measures. Their new video for “Cradle of Twigs & Bone” ditches the safety
Toronto’s madfolk are over apologizing for the stuff they grew up on. Their new single “Katherine” hit January 21st through
There’s this Lee Bains + the Glory Fires record from 2022 called Old-Time Folks that Luke Ottenhof keeps coming back
Jimy Dawn describes Shaun Day Woods as both a magician and a musician. The distinction matters when you’re trying to
When Josh, the bassist for Middle–Aged Queers, pitched covering Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” frontman Shauners was skeptical. Then Josh
“Vell i cabrejat” translates roughly to “old and pissed off,” which is about as straightforward as it gets. It’s one
Argentine instrumental outfit Monovoth returns with “To live in the Breath of Worship,” an album born from turbulence both personal
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Three years since their last record VOR, the German outfit formerly called Tourette Boys comes back swinging. Thanks, I Hate It drops Friday through Exile On Mainstream, and the title tells you
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When you finally cover a band that shaped how you think about hardcore, it means something. Sรฃo Paulo’s Questions are premiering their version of Strife’s “To the End” today โ a track from 1997’s “In this Defiance” that’s been in their heads since the
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The new Damasco album arrives with a clear frame. โFear is one
Before there was a plan for a release, there was just a
Dramatist didnโt arrive quietly. Before anyone outside the circuit had a track
โAlways Looking Behindโ arrives January 14, with a self-made video following on
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Mitchell Layton was stuck in a loop. Hopeless, depressed, lying in bed in the middle of the day with the lights off. He knew he shouldn’t be doing it. He knew he should get up, work out, do something productive. He knew that if
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The Indonesian crossover/metallic hardcore band NYCTO sees them as foundational โ embedded
There’s something unusually patient about releasing music that was written nearly three
For years, if they wrote something too clean, they’d wreck it on
“Matrimony” sounds like eighties synth-pop refracted through the lens of people who’ve
