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Recorded live, the Santa Cruz thrash/hardcore crossover trio’s third album is their best encapsulation of their live show’s infectious feel-good energy.

With their internal flame far from being snuffed out, the shapeshifting Californians’ 12th album sounds like a forgotten golden age of new wave.

If last year’s Weird Faith was a response to the uncertainty that inspired it, these songs are a profound expression of the emotions unleashed when those fears ultimately came true.

Vocalist Sonia Sturino and bassist Annie Hoffman discuss the unique backstory behind their third LP Feels Like Hell and learning to write songs that just feel good.

Retitled This Shit Is Geniuser, the collection originally released in 1999 features EPs and 7-inch singles from the punk band’s early days, along with a few added tracks from later in their career.

The Phoenix-based songwriter breaks down each song about touring, panic attacks, desperation, and simply wanting another Long Island iced tea.

Rising with the recent wave of Britpop revivalism, the London outfit’s post-punky tenth album is an absolute dark delight that bristles with tension and post-apocalyptic energy.

The heaviness of the emo/post-rock outfit’s fifth and most metallic album isn’t just in the music this time around—it’s also in the words, themes, and intent of the record.

BELIEVEYOUME, the Kansas City post-hardcore band’s second album since their 2015 reunion, arrives September 26 via Spartan Records.

Tim McIlrath shares how the punk band’s newly released tenth album Ricochet aims to match the disruptive political energy of the times.

The instrumental project featuring members of Against Me! and Gracer have also put physical copies of their new EP of the same name up for pre-order.

With her career-spanning retrospective Palimpsesa out now via Topshelf, the songwriter assures us that this compilation serves as something very far from an ending.

Harrowing and fun in equal measure, the Ontario groups’ fifth record is a deliberate return to their raw punk ’n’ roll roots with a newfound sense of vulnerability lying beneath all the noise.

The Canadian alt-pop artist discusses her sixth LP A6, feeling connected to her younger self, and learning to live in the moment.

Each song on the Louisville-based gothic-Americana band’s final album is its own requiem, a tender farewell accepting of its fate.

The Philadelphia-based group take us deeper into the thrilling narrative conclusion of their third album of prog-metal experimentation, out now via Equal Vision.

Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.

On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.