London's ACHERS have ended up in the catalogue of No Idea Records, twenty-five years after vocalist and guitarist Pat Smiley ...

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Firestone Elementary disappeared for two decades and came back because teenagers started finding them. The five friends from ...

Fractured, broken, dark, unpredictable. Those are the words that surface first when you press play on the new Tetsuo EP, a four-track record that moves from chaotic hardcore through bedroom lo-fi into ...

J.D. Morgan was on the fire escape outside his Milwaukee apartment, three stories up, working through a guitar piece he’d been fleshing out at home. Gunshots came from the parking lot of the nightclub ...

The title of Hammock’s fourteenth album comes from a specific night. Two friends on LSD, both raised fundamentalist Christian, sitting on a gazebo over a pond in small-town Arkansas, watching a light ...

Before this album, the band say songs usually started in pieces — a riff here, a few lyrics there — before one or two people would finish them. The EPs worked differently because each song mostly came ...

The digital age, with its overwhelming ocean of content and instant gratification, might seem a world away from the grimy basements and sweat-drenched gigs that once defined punk. Yet, on September ...

Break To Broken still carry plenty of the clipped guitars, restless rhythm and punk economy that first connected them through Fugazi and the wider Dischord orbit. On “The Hope Experiment“, that shared ...

There’s no milestone celebration, no pompous retrospective, no illusion of finality. Heimat might be Heaven Shall Burn’s tenth studio album, but the band treats it like any other: a necessary ...

The 70s have changed the way we play music. The evolution of music is a complex topic, and it’s necessary to look as far back as the 1970s to see how things have changed. What was once very one-sided ...

In 2024, FUET! had eight monthly Spotify listeners. The same year, the Madrid band were picked as one of six acts out of 1,600 applicants to play Mad Cool, one of Spain’s biggest international ...