To call Dumb Waiter just another noise rock band is to say nothing at all. The Richmond, Virginia four-piece open their new record with a sombre, saxophone-led passage that sits still long
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The strangest thing about calling an album “joy” is how quickly the word starts to look suspicious. Repeat it enough
Before the old Magnavox radio ended up on a French Inhaler record, it spent some time in Adam O’Leary’s dining
Paul first read William Ernest Henley‘s “Invictus” while he was still in grade school. Long before React existed, the poem
There was an actual grease trap. When Steve Myles first moved into the place where it sat, he and his
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 people something that has little to do with
Among the things Buga missed after years on the road were his wife, his dog, his guitar, his office and,
The person behind Amnezia says they used to play protest songs on a regular acoustic guitar. They no longer do
The quickest songs on “Circles” are full of people going nowhere. They run around town, replay old memories, wait too
One side of Trashxstrike’s first 12-inch holds seven hardcore songs. The other belongs to Mama, vocalist Jake’s cat, drawn with
Looking for different points of view, and peering into corners of music scenes that can appear deceptively similar from a
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Forrest Yingling was 15 when a friend’s dad drove him and four other teenagers to see Green Day at the Farm Show Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was his second big gig.
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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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Every song on “Collecting Sentiments of a Derailed Past” had been written, recorded, mixed and mastered before Russ Weisenthal’s mother died around the Fourth of July in 2025. The album title and track names were already fixed. The record was not written in response
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The missing space in the title carries the idea behind Brec Destroyer’s
Antillectual are spending 2026 marking twenty-five years as a band. After anniversary
Concrete Youth spent years playing metallic hardcore, youth crew, crossover and beatdown,
Rawdon, Quebec, late 1980s. A quarry, a group of Montreal teenagers drinking
