End of the Line started as a goodbye. Mike Down, who’d been screaming for Amenity and Forced Down through the 80s, was planning to leave hardcore behind, and the idea was a
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Endless Fest lands at TV Eye in Brooklyn on June 12, 13 and 14 with twenty-six bands playing for free
Lou Rogai went back to the old tapes and found riffs he had written with Brian Craig on a practice
The last words an African grey parrot named Alex ever said to his handler were “You be good, I love
The CSO Bocciodromo in Vicenza came down a few weeks ago, demolished to clear ground for high-speed rail construction. For
Extreme metal and hardcore don’t unsettle the way they did five years ago. Knocked Loose play mainstream festivals and pull
Press play on Agarwaen and the comparisons line up fast: Slipknot in the masks, Stephen King in the long-form appetite
Tanino Liberatore drew Ranxerox flipping the bird for the cover. Paolo Palmacci specifically asked him to. Ranxerox is the android
Man Looking Man recorded their self-titled debut on a rooftop in West Berlin. The studio belongs to their bassist Maurizio
The Bandcamp page for Volynka’s second album opens with a satirical dictionary entry. “Staycation,” noun, two readings: voluntary confinement when
Alex MacDonald asked Rowen Kahn to join Mermaid Island before she’d heard him play a note. They met one October
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On every Omit All release until now, Dave Klyman handled production himself. For “Lights Up on The End Stage,” the new three-song EP out today, he let go. The Philadelphia four-piece booked
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A firefighter started journaling at the firehouse about what emergency work does to a person over time, and what it uncovers about everything that came before it. After calls, in the smoke, his mind kept going back to the same place: late-’90s Cleveland, his
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The Dharma Chain spent ten days at Funkhaus Berlin earlier this year,
“The Bottom Line” is the first thing anyone outside the room is
A Lichtschacht is a narrow column of sky visible from the bottom
The video for “Same Old Haunts” was shot on a runway at
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The voices that open “Blurry Creatures” belong to drummer Zack Kelly’s children. They were recorded after the rest of the song had already been demoed and shelved, multiple group takes layered together to mimic a guitar line Kelly couldn’t get out of his head.
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Australian new wave synth post-punks screensaver are ten days into a European
In 2020, a Manila security guard named Alchie Paray took hostages. He
For most of this band’s run, the wobbliest person in any Real
Every time Matthieu and Benjamin stopped into Clément’s bar and bakery in
