The day after Trouble Bound’s 25th anniversary show in July 2024, Johnny No-Keys woke up with a fast riff already moving around his head. The previous night had been one of those
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When we spoke with Jon Aaron, better known as Jonny Bones, back in March, The Still Spirits had just released
About $6,000. That is what the US visas cost The Monsters for five East Coast shows this September, roughly 60%
Generacion Suicida unleashes their new LP, Hombre Nuevo – a ten-track journey that encapsulates the heart and soul of the LA
Brighton’s Barriers released their five-track EP “Time Crisis” on August 21, and one week later they’re giving it another push
Russian Circles passed twenty years as a band in typically unspectacular fashion. They were halfway through the touring cycle for
Ересь are a Warsaw DIY punk band made up of two Ukrainians from Kharkiv and a Russian drummer from St.
Pre-post from the south of north america. Zach, the band’s guitarist, calls it a position rather than a genre label.
For a good part of the six years between “The Void of No Return” and “Last Stand“, Deceased were still
Every Wednesday, Frayed Ends BC would spend three or four hours pulling apart whatever had landed in the band WhatsApp
There is a certain kind of emo and melodic indie rock that has always got to me very quickly. It
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Paul first read William Ernest Henley‘s “Invictus” while he was still in grade school. Long before React existed, the poem had already given him an idea he would keep returning to: suffering
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There is a small moment inside “Loss In Space” where Cluv Deego can be heard telling bassist Dudesblood Moonbear when to enter with the layered vocals. Sliimo were tracking the song themselves in their Providence practice space, playing the body of it live, and
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“Urban Abyss” starts with someone trying not to give in to failure.
There’s a strand of hardcore coming out of Central Europe right now
The volume on “Fragment” starts low, and Astoria left it that way
Vocals on “The Anatomy of an Atomic Heart” shift fast. Clarissa handles
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When Michael Cauldwell wanted his nine-year-old son Sami to hit the body of a guitar during a recording, Sami’s first instinct was to hold back. Michael was listening through headphones. Sami could not hear the music, so his father directed him with one hand,
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The strangest thing about calling an album “joy” is how quickly the
Before the old Magnavox radio ended up on a French Inhaler record,
There was an actual grease trap. When Steve Myles first moved into
Happy HellFest: DEFY YOU connect Guns Up!, their own demo years and present-day NJHC on their new EP
At the end of Defy You sets, vocalist Joseph “Joey” DePrizio tells
