Mike Bromberg says he was lucky. Born in New York when the hardcore scene was happening, young enough to be right in the middle of it—shows, bands, records, fanzines, the whole structure
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For years, if they wrote something too clean, they’d wreck it on purpose. A straightforward melody would get buried under
There’s something immediate about the way Adiós Cometa opens “Un destello de luz“. “Y de reojo, un resplandor” — a
“Matrimony” sounds like eighties synth-pop refracted through the lens of people who’ve been together long enough to know what holding
The first thing that stands out with Vita Ruina is how the heaviness breathes. The guitars hit hard but do
The new Damasco album arrives with a clear frame. “Fear is one of our most primordial and instinctive feelings,” the
Before there was a plan for a release, there was just a house outside Boston where four people lived, worked,
Dramatist didn’t arrive quietly. Before anyone outside the circuit had a track to stream, they were already standing on the
“Always Looking Behind” arrives January 14, with a self-made video following on January 28. The song also opens the path
When a band has been around for 45 years, the word return usually comes out automatically. Dezerter avoid that trap
If your first thought is this sounds like noise, you’re not wrong. It kind of is. A lot of artists
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Fourteen tracks. Just over twenty minutes. Chopping Block’s debut LP “Nowhere To Run” lands on Indecision Records with no patience. Nowhere To Run by Chopping Block The band finished recording “Seattle’s Hardcore”
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“Three two one, one two three. Hang a Nazi from a tree.” That’s how Jacob the Horse choose to open “Bad New Religion,” their new single we’re premiering today and one of the clearest mission statements in this whole rollout. As Aviv Rubinstien puts
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The Bilbao-based band Alkuperä are joining us today with a special premiere
It starts with voices. Not lyrics, not a scene-setter, just people talking
DOOIE MUS is a two-piece screamo band from the Netherlands, built around
The new single “Breaking Waves” lands today as Chalk Hands’ opening gesture
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In the early 1980s, if you wanted to be part of something, you had to leave the house. You wrote letters. You waited. You photocopied pages by hand, stapled them together, and sent them out with stamps and phone tokens. Paolo Palmacci remembers that
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“Struck a nerve” runs just over a minute and doesn’t waste any
Main hardcore band Corrective Measure are preparing to release a new three-song
Memory shows up early on “Silver Blue”, not as a story being
FOCO(IZM) operate out of New York City, but the thing they’re building
