May 8, 2026 Frenzy industrial punks THE FAMILY MEN talk “Co/de/termination,” the Gothenburg scene, and more
May 8, 2026 FEEL FREE debut their first demo and tie Orange County hardcore back to its San Diego neighbors
May 8, 2026 Spokane / Portland d-beat hardcore punk POISE premiere “Ill Anguish”, walk through the politics behind “Iron Foot”
May 8, 2026 JACKSON FIG turn a Wall Street phrase into an alt rock shoegaze record about dead-end jobs on “No One Knows the Bottom”
May 7, 2026 CZARNY LAS (BLACK FOREST) returns after a decade with “Jak siΔ masz?”, a debut built from spoken word, bleak rap, downtempo, and Polish alternative ghosts
May 7, 2026 MILK ST. return with “Just So”, a slacker indie cut Jonah Wakefield built around a chorus mocking his own sadness
May 7, 2026 Italian gentle shoegaze rockers NO PINE MALL on writing “Impostor Syndrome” from “Adrift”
May 7, 2026 Heavy shoegazers SILK on making ‘Auralux’ under the shadow of mortality, a Refused line , and why the demos won
May 7, 2026 Portland’s psych rockers VERADAS pull from grunge, krautrock and the Everly Brothers on “Hud Money”
May 7, 2026 Power pop emo rockers POWER BURKAS turn fricandΓ³, CrossFit, and a torn-down market into their fourth album “Amb la fi al davant”
May 6, 2026 Rites of Spring Fest reopens the “real emo” question, returns to Munich for two days with Raein, Weatherday, and a FLINTA-led newcomer wave
May 6, 2026 Screamo splits tradition continues on the newest offering from Finland’s LETTERBOMBS and GΓΆteborg’s Γ TERSTOD
May 6, 2026 Emotive post hardcore band MUROSUONO ditch the FOMO on “Chimera,” great new album co-released by five labels
May 5, 2026 JARDIN ANIMAL walk through Midwest emo earworm “Pudo Ser Peor,” building a scene from Managua outward, and finding emo friends across Latin America
May 5, 2026 HOMEGROUND leave hardcore behind, walk through “Splendid”, a record about grief, plagiarised love and small-town life
May 4, 2026 Tour Diary: on the road with blackened metalcore beast ANCST and neocrust d-beat act MΓRNΓ
May 4, 2026 INCENDIARY DEVICE dissect “New York City” track by track – NYHC love letter, skateboarding, and more
May 1, 2026 Adelaide trio TOWNHOUSE drop “Avenger Level Threat” video, off a bedroom-recorded EP and a tight DIY scene
May 1, 2026 MUSIC IS THE ENEMY break their eight-year silence – Albuquerque hardcore band drops new EP “Sansational”
May 1, 2026 Post metallers JUNON, Charles Masset, and Thomas Ayrinhac break down the making of the amazing cinematic video for “The Chaser”
May 1, 2026 Richmond’s doom stoners MT. FOREVER populate debut LP with cursed characters and a fictional Southern town
May 1, 2026 Paris shoegaze quartet MIDSCALE follow “Movements” with two-part EP “Dread, This Could Save You”
April 30, 2026 Liverpool’s CUT SHORT tie post-relationship grief to the city’s industrial decline on new single “Unrequited”
April 30, 2026 Portland Is the New Portland: a short film about a guy who invented 17 fake bands and a fake label