In 2002, Joe Brown handed Dan Arnold a stack of CDs and told him to do his homework. The two had been in different bands together through high school in Chino Hills,
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Bologna, 2016. Olivier Le Tohic is on his third day of a European tour as Harm Done‘s roadie. He’d recently
Stabber wrapped recording on “EP II” right before Endless Tinnitus moved out of its old room at the end of
Gord Taylor builds “Made in Hell” from distance, old lessons, and bagpipes without Scotland attached
There is a very specific kind of bagpipe player who can describe his father’s formal pipe band uniform in loving
“Silence Before Rebirth” was already sitting inside Hold Me Tight before Fran knew what it was about. The Sardinian hardcore
hairpin’s new single starts in a boxing ring. “Meet me in the ring, ready for another round,” Adam Edwards sings,
Foreign Film take their name from a song on Will Haven’s 1997 debut “El Diablo”, which gives you most of
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
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Extreme metal and hardcore don’t unsettle the way they did five years ago. Knocked Loose play mainstream festivals and pull
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The Bandcamp page for Volynka’s second album opens with a satirical dictionary entry. “Staycation,” noun, two readings: voluntary confinement when there’s no money for a real vacation, and mandatory confinement imposed by
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Man Looking Man recorded their self-titled debut on a rooftop in West Berlin. The studio belongs to their bassist Maurizio Bergmann, who also engineered, mixed and mastered the record, so every stage of production stayed in the band’s hands. The album lands on June
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A firefighter started journaling at the firehouse about what emergency work does
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The French post-metallers LOST IN KYIV discuss the fifth album, new drummer, a Jung sample, and more
Maxime Ingrand had been thinking about the spelling for three or four years before he finally said it out loud to the rest of the band. He didn’t dare bring it up earlier. Lost In Kyiv, then still Lost In Kiev, had always positioned
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Velvet Mist’s second EP arrives today on hand-numbered vinyl, and its shape
The voices that open “Blurry Creatures” belong to drummer Zack Kelly’s children.
Australian new wave synth post-punks screensaver are ten days into a European
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