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Blind Girls / Rites of Spring Fest 12.04.2025

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

Deftones Coolea

April 28, 2026

Why most modern music journalism sucks, with Coolea

TERROR, by Mark Miller

April 23, 2026

Scott Vogel and TERROR mark album ten with “Still Suffer” and new documentary

NEW YORK CITY POST-HARDCORE LEGENDS QUICKSAND ANNOUNCE FIRST ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS, BRING ON THE PSYCHICS

April 23, 2026

NYC post-hardcore legends QUICKSAND are back with new album “Bring On The Psychics,” share new songs “Get To It” and “Regenerate”

Slikback by João Octávio Peixoto

April 23, 2026

Paradise Must Be Nice 2026 brings sacred music, noise, and deconstructed club to three Berlin venues this June

Chicanx Quiet Fear

April 19, 2026

Chicanx hardcore pack QUIET FEAR traces backyard shows, language, and pressure on“La Tierra Arriba/El Abismo Abajo”

HOLOCAUSTS (Anti-Zionist Israeli Hardcore Punks)

April 15, 2026

HOLOCAUSTS, the Israeli anti-Zionist crust punk band, and what resistance looks like from the inside

DISCORDIA (Quebec City, Canada)

April 15, 2026

Craig Lewis remembers Quebec City punks DISCORDIA, Caillou, and finding himself in Quebec City

DISCORDIA

April 15, 2026

Recalling DISCORDIA, Tijuana crust punk legends, and 30 years of staying connected

THE CAULFIELD CULT

March 31, 2026

10 years of “Cult”: THE CAULFIELD CULT turned doubt, burnout and self-disgust into something lasting

Siksa by Michał Sierakowski

March 26, 2026

Noc Walpurgii turns 30, returns to Warsaw April 30

Ten non-Japanese bands that got the Burning Spirit sound right

March 25, 2026

10 non-Japanese bands that got the Burning Spirit sound right, selected by Prague’s Mr. Banana

Hindsight, by Jeff Lasich

March 17, 2026

HINDSIGHT talk “Some Things Never Change,” straight edge as a lived thing, and the Northeast hardcore rooms keeping it all moving

Jaysdead by @aarsh.visuals

March 17, 2026

JAYSDEAD channel American frustration from India on “God Save America”

ClubDrugs

March 13, 2026

Chicago, Goth Pop duo, CLUBDRUGS premiere “Overdose”

Rise Above Dead

February 19, 2026

Italian metal beast RISE ABOVE DEAD bring back their original vocalist after a decade of instrumental mutation

LSD, photo by Teëum Sipilä

February 18, 2026

Running Through the Dark: Revisiting LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD’s 2007 Debut

Official Hooligans

February 13, 2026

5 Hardcore Punk Bands from the 1990’s that Set Me on Fire

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

Refused, by Rapha Vargas

January 27, 2026

REFUSED closed their hometown chapter with three sold-out farewell nights in Umeå, documented by Rapha Vargas

RUFFIAN DICK (Aaron)

January 6, 2026

RUFFIAN DICK: making Glam Punk Rock Again

COLEMAN

January 6, 2026

Remembering COLEMAN: one of the strangest and most amazing hardcore bands from Boston

Photo: Mike McCarthy, by Matthew Carroll

January 6, 2026

Five 1990’s era hardcore punk bands from Massachusetts worthy of celebrating

Carrion Sky - new band from Warsaw Poland

December 17, 2025

Dark post metallers CARRION SKY document “As our hearts devour us” as a slow, striking response to collapse and continuation

Season To Risk

December 8, 2025

SEASON TO RISK discuss thirty years of “In A Perfect World”

Only

December 7, 2025

In Shorts: New Releases Nov 28 – Dec 5

Cursive, by Bill Sitzmann

December 7, 2025

Noise Real Records opens its “Noise Pollution Series” with a Cursive 7” built around two long-evolving versions of “The Recluse”

YOUTH NOVEL by Ben Leser

November 28, 2025

In Shorts: New Releases Nov 21-28

With Love - by G. Mazza

November 21, 2025

In Shorts: November 14-21

Drunks With Guns!

November 21, 2025

2024 board tape captures DRUNKS WITH GUNS doing what their old records only hinted at

CONVERGE live by Scott Murry

November 19, 2025

CONVERGE return with “Love Is Not Enough” as the first look at their next album

Heriot live, by Ashlea Bea

November 14, 2025

In Shorts: November 7-14

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