Karol Kamiński

DIY rock music enthusiast and web-zine publisher from Warsaw, Poland. Supporting DIY ethics, local artists and promoting hardcore punk, rock, post rock and alternative music of all kinds via IDIOTEQ online channels.
Contact via [email protected]

BRIGHT SUNSHINE, by Jessica Weatherbee-Brown

July 11, 2025

BRIGHT SUNSHINE channel Arizona’s corporate hellscape into crushing noise rock with “Executive Power Supreme”

Divine Sentence - by Greg Hall @tofeelhealed

July 11, 2025

In Shorts: New Hardcore & Punk Rock Releases, July 9-11

Blood in the Champagne

July 10, 2025

Gothic post punks BLOOD IN THE CHAMPAGNE imagines a different world through stories of protest, patriarchy, and addiction

Cash Bribe

July 10, 2025

CASH BRIBE tear into systemic rot with unrelenting force on new EP “Demonomics”

TERMINAL SLEEP by @dark.departure.visuals

July 9, 2025

In Shorts: New releases in Hardcore, Screamo & Punk Rock – Early July

YUNGER

July 8, 2025

YUNGER’s “Sinner” cuts into betrayal and heartbreak ahead of new release

DIGITAL NEGATIVE

July 8, 2025

DIGITAL NEGATIVE continue their uneasy industrial/electronic excavation on Intersect EP

EMBERS OF OUROBOROS

July 7, 2025

EMBERS OF OUROBOROS offers a grim, reflective debut with “The Autumnal Decline and Hermetic Maturation”

Kaonashi by Dazey Doom

July 4, 2025

KAONASHI close the chapter merging chaos with clarity on “I Want To Go Home”

FIN DEL MUNDO by Andie Borie

July 4, 2025

FIN DEL MUNDO return to Europe with a new album and a string of intimate memories

Ocean Of Another, by Nika Kovačević

July 4, 2025

Modern nu metallers OCEAN OF ANOTHER confront personal trauma and systemic collapse on their new EP “Loneliness Of My Kin”

Petrichor, by Emily Alff

July 4, 2025

PETRICHOR’s debut EP takes childhood myths and Grey’s Anatomy and filters them through DC punk and teenage angst

PHANTOM HEIR by Edwina Athena

July 4, 2025

PHANTOM HEIR channels resistance into four-part anti-authoritarian tech/post-metal EP “Fragile Immortals”

Burial Tree

July 4, 2025

BURIAL TREE returns with “The Power of Myth,” an extended three-track statement featuring Dave Lombardo, Bill Laswell, and Peter Apfelbaum

Statico by Jahvo Joza

July 4, 2025

STATICO confronts industrial tragedy and systemic greed in new track “Not A Catwalk”

Art of Heartwork

July 4, 2025

ART OF HEARTWORK’s emotive metalcore debut tear through personal collapse and Balkan rot on their debut EP

BURTNWOOD

July 4, 2025

Americana infused alt rockers BURNTWOOD explore disconnection, nature, and renewal on debut album

New Brutalism

July 3, 2025

NEW BRUTALISM release “089,” first single off upcoming EP recorded by Steve Albini

Laugh Track

July 3, 2025

Hardcore punks LAUGH TRACK channel post-surgery frustration into Hope Less, a DIY Gothenburg record captured in two nights

Poison Tribe

July 2, 2025

POISON TRIBE’s new EP drags Denver crust out of the grave and back into the pit – top Colorado under the radar bands

Gridiron by Danielle Parsons

July 2, 2025

GRIDIRON drop “Heavy Metal Money (Seen It All Before)” feat. Big Body Bes video

KARABA FC by @nicolas.giraldo_

July 2, 2025

Screamy rockers KARABA F.C. premiere “Tides”

BYMYSIDE

July 1, 2025

Losing things, holding on, and starting over together – an interview with Italian emo screamo band BYMYSIDE

Youth Novel

July 1, 2025

Screamo act YOUTH NOVEL return with “Made in Heaven”

Photo by Lucas Allmann

July 1, 2025

Jazz, Jams, and Jackpots: Where Baccarat Meets the Music Scene

Flying Nuns, photo by Ericde Montauban

June 30, 2025

Alternative shoegaze rockers FLYING NUNS reissue their 1992 demo and prepare a new EP after 18 years of silence

SPOOK RECORDS

June 30, 2025

Spook Records nears 20 years of DIY hardcore, still riding for the CD format

Haywire - Zak Zavala

June 27, 2025

HAYWIRE roll through the U.S. with “Summer Nights” video premier and shows booked in Alaska and Hawaii

Glimmer

June 27, 2025

GLIMMER return with “Sorrow Again,” a fuzz-soaked, melancholic summer single ahead of their debut LP

HIGHER POWER

June 27, 2025

Alt hardcore band HIGHER POWER drop their third album “There’s Love In This World If You Want It” with a video for “All The Rage”

Year Of No Light live by @JacQue_Photography

June 27, 2025

Wrestling with trance, memory, and gentrification: YEAR OF NO LIGHT revisit “Les Maîtres Fous”

PENNWOOD RD. by dave

June 27, 2025

“I Won’t a Friend” by emo act PENNWOOD RD. is about growing up without a map and trying to hold onto something real

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DIY rock music enthusiast and web-zine publisher from Warsaw, Poland. Supporting DIY ethics, local artists and promoting hardcore punk, rock, post rock and alternative music of all kinds via IDIOTEQ online channels.
Contact via [email protected]