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Brickie, by Matt Horseman
February 6, 2026

Montreal’s BRICKIE wrestle with beauty and brutality on new EP “III”

sixpoints
February 5, 2026

SIXPOINTS refuse genre borders, building “Negative Space” from bluesy riffs, spoken word, and owl calls on a small Canadian island

Middle Aged Queers - Photo by Matthew
February 5, 2026

MIDDLE-AGED QUEERS turn Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You” into an early Jawbreaker tune ahead of Valentine’s Gay shows

Serpent
February 4, 2026

SERPENT treat aging in the underground like spitting in the face of nostalgia

Monovoth
February 4, 2026

Argentine doom project MONOVOTH channels global despair and personal grief into their most expansive statement yet

Nook & Cranny
February 3, 2026

NOOK & CRANNY captured 17 years of musical trust in unedited jam sessions for “Karma Waters”

Jagged City
February 3, 2026

JAGGED CITY emerges from parallel histories in hardcore and post-rock with interesting new instrumental EP

HATESPEECH @hatespeech714 at @musichouseindio @hotstuffbooking
February 2, 2026

HATESPEECH’s “Orange County” tracks suburban paradise watching civil war inch closer through a screen

Brec Destroyer
February 2, 2026

Metal act BREC DESTROYER returns after 17 years with a song he couldn’t finish until now

Pipe Bomb, by Alex Ilyadis
January 30, 2026

Digging yourself out of depression, with PIPE BOMB’s “I Will Kill The Worst Parts Of Myself,”

NYCTO
January 30, 2026

NYCTO drops “Crowned of Lies” with Ramadhan of Ratel Beast – a blunt takedown of validation culture and manufactured truth

REAGNITION, by Damian Dragański
January 30, 2026

REAGNITION brings back 1996 hardcore sketches that never made it to tape

GAVIAL, by Toni Petrasck
January 30, 2026

Blues rockers GAVIAL respond to a burning world with “Thanks, I Hate It”

dense haze
January 30, 2026

Polish doom outfit DENSE HAZE maps their journey from stoner covers to sludge-soaked introspection on “Galas”

Rome is not a town
January 29, 2026

Writing 60 songs in two years while raising kids and watching the world tilt – ROME IS NOT A TOWN returns with “Echoes of Love”

ADIÓS COMETA
January 29, 2026

Costa Rican band ADIÓS COMETA releases “Un destello de luz” — an album caught between wanting to run and choosing to stay

Don't Get Lemon
January 29, 2026

About love like it needs maintenance – “Matrimony” by DON’T GET LEMON is here!

GO - Just Say Go!
January 28, 2026

Behind the gatefold reissue of GO!’s 1989-91 New York hardcore recordings after thirty years out of print

January 28, 2026

GROS ENFANT MORT wrote “Le sang des pierres” like a journal during a mental collapse, and it sounds like the French screamo we needed

Sungaze - Always Looking Behind - by Rikki Austin
January 26, 2026

SUNGAZE detail the making of the mezmerizing “Always Looking Behind”

Dezerter live - Małgorzata Wasilewska Fotografia
January 16, 2026

Polish punk legends DEZERTER return with “Wolny Wybieg”, new album coming up!

Celebrating
January 15, 2026

CELEBRATING “Demo”

SCORN
January 15, 2026

Brace for impact: SCORN’s debut EP “Cruel World” is here!

King Slender - There Is Your Name In Light
January 15, 2026

Emotive screamo hardcore band KING SLENDER premiere “Kirby” – new album “There Is Your Image In Light” coming up

Chopping Block - Matt, by Gabe Becerra
January 14, 2026

CHOPPING BLOCK kicks off 2026 with fast hardcore blast “Nowhere To Run”

RUST
January 13, 2026

RusT introduce “New Way Of Life” as a shift within Romania’s shoegaze underground

Moneybag 1327
January 13, 2026

Kuala Lumpur hardcore outfit MONEYBAG 1327 mark their final release with “Hate & Vanity”

FanziNet
January 9, 2026

See how community worked before the web: Fanzinet – building a living archive of 1980s Italian punk fanzines

Step Below
January 9, 2026

London fierce hardcore band STEP BELOW confront everyday negativity on “Struck a nerve”

Alkuperä
January 8, 2026

Bilbao screamo band ALKUPERÄ close the “Sendero Desesperanza” cycle with new video for “Ataraxia/Aponía”

DIE YOUNG live by @reidhaithcock
January 2, 2026

DIE YOUNG return with their own take on “Clutches”, revisiting NAUSEA through groove, belief, and unfinished arguments

Corrective Measure in Cologne, by Pat Schmidt
December 31, 2025

CORRECTIVE MEASURE outline their recent Europe tour, Maine hardcore’s rally around Ryan Eyestone, and a three-song tape

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