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Elway Explore the Psychic Toll of Warfare in Video for New Single “Laugh Track”

The Fort Collins punks share the first track from their seventh album Nobody’s Going to Heaven just in time for May Day.

May 01, 2025
Reviews
Michael Cera Palin, “We Could Be Brave”

Arriving a decade after the formation of the Atlanta emo-punk trio, the 10 sophisticated, visceral songs on this debut feel like a release of pent-up energy.

April 21, 2025
Reviews
Cleopatrick, “FAKE MOON”

Doing away with their blues-stomp/desert-rock hybrid in favor of something more mellow and downbeat, the Canadian duo’s sophomore LP is a collection of deep sighs and broken hearts.

April 15, 2025
Reviews
Deafheaven, “Lonely People with Power”

The experimental metal band’s sixth album relishes in the unexpected, containing some of their most extreme black-metal moments as well as some of their most tenderly fragile.

April 10, 2025
5 Questions with Hybrid Forms

The “post-glacier” goblin-punks discuss their new album Daydream Indignation, Portland, Oregon’s flourishing music scene, and manifesting friendship.

March 25, 2025
Reviews
Frog, “1000 Variations on the Same Song”

The NYC indie-folk duo’s sixth album is a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft, using its 11 tracks to demonstrate the infinite approaches to universal themes.

February 14, 2025
5 Questions with Winona Fighter

Vocalist Coco Kinnon fills us in on the journey to making the Nashville-based pop-punk trio’s debut album My Apologies to the Chef sound “100 percent” their own.

February 14, 2025
Reviews
Drop Nineteens, “1991”

These nine shelved recordings remain resplendent explosions of emotion and wonder 34 years later, despite the then-nascent Boston shoegazers clearly striving to find their sound.

February 13, 2025
Reviews
Heartworms, “Glutton for Punishment”

The tender pain of Jojo Orme’s post-punk debut mostly maintains the sinister nature of its dual inspiration—suffering brought upon by war and through fractured relationships—quite well.

February 11, 2025
Reviews
The Locust, “The Peel Sessions” [Reissue]

Recorded in 2001, originally released in 2010, and newly remastered, there’s a bristling energy that runs through this EP that maximizes the weird terror of these 16 bursts of grindcore.

January 24, 2025
5 Questions with Dax Riggs

The Acid Bath vocalist offers a cryptic introduction to 7 Songs for Spiders, his first solo release in 15 years.

January 24, 2025
Reviews
Shutdown, “By Your Side”

Written through an older and wiser lens, the NYC hardcore punks’ new EP contains the same kind of ebullience that the band possessed when they last released material 25 years ago.

January 15, 2025
Reviews
Ethel Cain, “Perverts”

More of an immersive art installation than an album, this 90-minute drone project is every bit as moving as its pop predecessor despite feeling deliberately difficult.

January 08, 2025
First Look
Queen Kwong Subverts the Male Gaze in New Video for Cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “State Trooper”

Carré Callaway’s friend and collaborator Roger O’Donnell of The Cure fame is featured in the new clip, which was co-directed by Callaway.

December 13, 2024
First Look
Common Sage Get Lost in Their Own Reflection with Video for “47.”

With the Brooklyn band’s new album Closer To; out today via Equal Vision Records, frontman Julian Rosen takes us deeper into its heavy themes in a brief Q&A.

November 22, 2024
Bad Astronaut Re-Tether on New Collection of Stripped-Back Recordings, “Untethered”

Lagwagon’s Joey Cape discusses his pop-punk project’s return nearly two decades after their last album with these reworked versions of old songs.

November 08, 2024
Reviews
Chuck Ragan, “Love and Lore”

This new era of evident Dire Straits influence builds on and redefines the Hot Water Music vocalist’s legacy and reputation as a songwriter.

November 07, 2024
Reviews
Kal Marks, “Wasteland Baby”

Carl Shane’s anxiety about becoming a parent in this American dystopia has inspired a particularly dystopian set of noise-rock songs—as well as a newfound desperation to break free.

November 06, 2024
Playlist
Karate’s Crash Course in Jazz

With the emo/jazz band returning with their first album in 20 years, frontman Geoff Farina walks us through 15 tracks that have helped shape the group’s vision from the beginning.

October 18, 2024
Reviews
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, “No Title As of 13 February 2024, 28,340 Dead”

Named in reference to the death toll in Gaza, the post-rock pioneers’ ninth full-length sounds like a requiem to the world as it is today—albeit one permeated by rays of occasional light.

October 04, 2024
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