Jagged City started as a long-distance conversation between two people who’d spent years in different corners of guitar-driven music—Jake Woodruff from Defeater, Carlos Torres from his time touring with Explosions In The
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Two guys from Barrie and Toronto, respectively, with over 25 years of shared history in Canadian punk, put out a
If you want a snapshot of what Toronto’s heavier scenes sound like when they bleed into each other, Backchannel are
There’s a well somewhere in Finland with a dead child at the bottom of it. At least that’s how Birching
“We Need You To Bleed” isn’t being dusted off so much as put back where it belongs. Flesh Creep’s debut
When Angel Christian was three years old, her parents became jail ministers and started travelling to prisons across Georgia, bringing
There’s a specific kind of discomfort that comes from recognizing the familiar and sensing something deeply wrong underneath it. That
Three guys from Chicago who call themselves the “Chicago Nasty Boys” have been tearing through basements, storage units, and country
Somewhere on Vancouver Island, between months of rain and snow and grey, Night Mirrors spent a full year putting together
Sixteen years in and Rise Above Dead are still not done reshaping themselves. The Milan-based post-metal outfit — a band
Suffolk three-piece the Winonas — James on guitar and vocals, Kate on bass and vocals, Paul on drums and vocals
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Three years since their last record VOR, the German outfit formerly called Tourette Boys comes back swinging. Thanks, I Hate It drops Friday through Exile On Mainstream, and the title tells you
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Los Angeles anarcho-punk four-piece Gottlieb have spent the last few years building something volatile from a co-op in central LA — two EPs, a viral track in “Scarcity” that kept resurfacing during moments of political unrest, and a live reputation that sounds like it
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A south east London four-piece recording shoegaze in a living room with
There’s this Lee Bains + the Glory Fires record from 2022 called
“Vell i cabrejat” translates roughly to “old and pissed off,” which is
Argentine instrumental outfit Monovoth returns with “To live in the Breath of
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This hardcore band exists because someone didn’t check their messages for over a year. Aaron Friedman moved to Austin, reached out to Brandon Jimenez about starting something, and got silence—not rejection, just missed timing. They eventually met in person at Not So Fun Weekend
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“Hunab Ku” doesn’t feel like a band coming back so much as
Bristol trio Epimetheus play in drop F. The guitar is a self-assembled
If you’re after a record that throws crossover, thrash, and hardcore into
Early ’90s Finland wasn’t exporting punk with today’s modern mainstream vibe or
