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First Look
Nighttime Flyers Capture the Wonder of Youth in New “Running Strange” Video

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.

August 08, 2025
In Conversation
Deja Carr on Becoming the Most Authentic Version of Herself with Mal Devisa

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.

August 04, 2025
Reviews
The Dirty Nil, “The Lash”

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.

July 28, 2025
5 Questions
5 Questions with Lights

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

June 24, 2025
Reviews
Murder by Death, “Egg & Dart”

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

June 13, 2025
Track by Track
Kaonashi Walk Us Through Their Trilogy-Closing “I Want to Go Home.” LP

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.

June 11, 2025
Reviews
Alan Sparhawk, “With Trampled by Turtles”

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.

May 30, 2025
Reviews
M(h)aol, “Something Soft”

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.

May 16, 2025
Reviews
Various artists, “True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth”

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.

May 08, 2025
Reviews
Beach Bunny, “Tunnel Vision”

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.

May 07, 2025
5 Questions
5 Questions with PUP

With the Toronto punks releasing their fifth album Who Will Look After the Dogs? today, we grill lead guitarist Steve Sladkowski about the band’s back-to-basics approach.

May 02, 2025
First Look
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
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
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
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