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14+ hour, 34+ min ago (18+ words) Metallic hardcore mob WRECKONIZE push back on scene tourists with "Dead 2 Me / Nowhere 2 Run'IDIOTEQ.com...
Heavy gazers SLOW DEGRADE trace love turning toxic on “lead me down”
14+ hour, 45+ min ago (478+ words) There's a moment in "lead me down." where the song hangs back just long enough to feel unstable, like it might not come down at all. Then it does, and it hits harder for it. The track follows the band's…...
Hardcore pack BIRDLEGS confronts inherited damage and digital control on “Visions Beyond The Ape Cave”
14+ hour, 58+ min ago (1491+ words) Birdlegs bring together Ozenne, Jade Puget, Gary Gutfeld, and Ryan Doria'four players tied to the East Bay's late '90s circuit, when bands overlapped across Redemption 87, the Nerve Agents, AFI, Corduroy, and Hi-Fives. That period wasn't cleanly defined. Gary describes it as…...
Pop punk rockers HARK! A SHARK! break a decade of silence with “Sirens” and the coming EP “Very Nice, Very Evil”
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (594+ words) Sirens by Hark! A Shark!Sirens by Hark! A Shark! "Sirens," out April 1, is Hark! A Shark!s first new release in ten years, and the first look at the upcoming EP "Very Nice, Very Evil," due this summer. The…...
Montreal teenagers GENERAL CHAOS push harder on “Busted” and map out the anger behind “Can’t Please ’Em All”
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (599+ words) Some bands spend years trying to sound this direct. General Chaos got there by sixteen. "Busted," the first single from the Montreal trio's second LP "Can't Please 'Em All" gets in, says its piece, and leaves a mark: fast downstrokes,…...
CHEVREUIL rebuild their magnetic system on “Ordrus” ahead of comeback double album “Stadium”
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (665+ words) Chevreuil have always treated the duo format like a piece of engineered performance architecture. Julien F. and Tony C. formed the band in 1998 after meeting three years earlier at art school, then stripped the setup down until it behaved less like standard…...
On “Dance Music,” experimental bedroom act CELEBRATING chases peace through skramz, noise rock, old gear, and an imagined late-’90s past
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (396+ words) Celebrating's "Dance Music" turns breakbeats, tape hiss, and dissociation into something harder to name Celebrating push further out on "Dance Music," a debut EP built from violence, nostalgia, and fabricated memory Indianapolis solo project Celebrating follows "Demo 2025" with a debut…...
ANTI-CORPOS on 20 years of queer feminist noise punk, Berlin’s coldness, and refusing silence
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (1063+ words) Anti-Corpos have been doing this long enough to know what punk says about itself, and what actually happens once the room fills up. "For every 1 out of 5 Anti-Corpos concerts we need to stop the show and manage bad behavior in…...
BRISK’s “Do Nothing” brings Kuala Lumpur hardcore into alt-grunge territory
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (785+ words) The Kuala Lumpur outfit arrive on April 1 with their debut single, "Do Nothing," after nearly two years of writing, jamming, second-guessing where exactly they fit, and eventually landing on a sound that pulls equal force from hardcore impact and big,…...
Shoegazin' alt rockers AIRLINE push through fear and static on new EP “Koi”
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (884+ words) The image that holds Airline's new EP together is an old one: a koi swimming against the current, trying to clear the Dragon Gate. But it is not a neat symbol for triumph. On "Koi, the Eora/Sydney band treat…...