September 9, 2026 Berlin’s LA HAINE pack tom-heavy hardcore, abrasive screams and sudden softer melody into striking 18 minutes on”Spilling Raw”
September 8, 2026 KIT MAJOR takes GREEN DAY’s “Brain Stew” from a Beijing Walkman memory into her current band’s first recording
September 8, 2026 Garage punk rockers STETSON HEAT SEEKER turn an old Actionesse country joke into “This Is No Place for Cowards”
September 7, 2026 RACETRAITOR on “Nobody Son of Nobody”, Chicago violence, Persian mysticism and thirty years of living with their politics
September 7, 2026 AMERICAN MOTORS announce “Functional Music”, recorded with J. Robbins and built from repetition, melody and West Virginia detail
September 7, 2026 Moscow screamo band сплошь (SPLOSH) discuss new song “град”, shared rehearsal spaces and the bands they came from
September 7, 2026 VELCRO DOG premiere “I’ll Stick to Fiction”, the third “Fjord Noir” single, a song about fiction as shelter from a world Tony Gonzalez can barely handle
September 6, 2026 FALSE BODY discuss their Edmonton roots, 15 years of shared history and debut LP “Tomorrow Starts Without You”
September 4, 2026 Boston alt-rock project PPR PPL turn thirty years behind the drums into new promising single “Taller Trees”
September 4, 2026 9 Colorado hardcore bands you need to hear, by Rocky Mountain hardcore pack TUNNEL JUMPER
September 3, 2026 Ontario hardcore pack RUST share “Curse Your Name” ahead of a three-song New Age Records release
September 3, 2026 Nu grunge rockers ALTAR OF HIRAETH trace betrayal, dependence, self-hatred and hope through “Introspective”
September 2, 2026 KRAANERG take zeuhl, experimental metal and classical composition into “Aria for Labellum Tongues”
September 1, 2026 MENDERBUG return with “Where the Silence Grew” are nearing 70 songs and learning which parts of DIY are worth their time
September 1, 2026 Metalcore beasts NO LIFE unveil “Labyrinth”, discuss Christchurch, Brooklands Sound and the electronics inside their riffs
August 30, 2026 Five covers that changed the original – SADFACE reworks Alice In Chains’ “Nutshell”, picks covers that became something else
August 28, 2026 No Borders: THE MONSTERS return to the US with $6,000 visas, five East Coast shows and a new wild record
August 28, 2026 Barriers premiere “Final Fight” and talk “Time Crisis”, Brighton punk rooms and the records behind the band
August 26, 2026 Ересь (YERES) bring Ukrainians and Russians into one Warsaw alt punk band, writing about war, displacement and the language they share
August 25, 2026 Acróbata. talk “tèlesma”, Spanish lyrics and keeping post-hardcore moving through Puebla
August 24, 2026 Singapore crossover band DECEASED talk Singapore hardcore, Dio, disappearing venues and the fight behind “Last Stand”
August 23, 2026 Belfast hardcore crew FRAYED ENDS BC trace the politics, friendships and Belfast scene behind “Nothing At All”
August 21, 2026 TIME SPENT DRIVING rebuilt old songs, opened the door to old friends and found “Lost Leaves” (album premiere)
August 20, 2026 INKWELL burned through Atlanta hardcore in two years. Thirty years later, their story is finally on one record
August 18, 2026 Thirty-five years later, New Zealand noise rock vets LUNG are still pulling their own songs apart
August 17, 2026 Wild hardcore punk rockers SUPPORTIVE PARENTS turned one wrong turn in a Minneapolis blizzard into new concept EP “Party Bus From Hell”
August 17, 2026 Rome’s SHIRIME turn three hardcore songs into a fight over class, empathy and who gets to write the rules
August 13, 2026 RAGING RIVER / FURNACE SKY leave the wrong notes in and turn home recording into a shared language between father and son
