May 14, 2026 ALARM! return with “Failure By Design,” shaped by a closed Corby steelworks and a Chomsky documentary
May 14, 2026 Bergamo’s horror punk rockers THE CRIMSON GHOST wrap their three-EP horror cycle with Witchcraft
May 14, 2026 END OF THE LINE on summer 1991, Ebullition, and reunion shows with Downcast: an interview with Matt Anderson and Cory Linstrum
May 14, 2026 smallways. snap into “WHAT I’M DOIN'”, their heaviest track and a Dirk Kruithof cover that maps the whole pyramid
May 14, 2026 Gol Olímpico share “respirar en cuadro,” a shoegaze panic-attack song built around box breathing and the songwriter who first showed them emo in Spanish
May 14, 2026 Premiere: CAR VS. DRIVER’s “Without A Day” from “Deja Grateful” reissue, 30 years out of print
May 14, 2026 TOJO YAMAMOTO shares psych noise cover of “Man on the Moon”, discuss the Memphis wrestling lineage
May 14, 2026 Japanese post rock maestros MONO discuss ‘Snowdrop’, recording without Steve Albini, and the language of flowers
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 się 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 fricandó, 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 Göteborg’s ÅTERSTOD
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
