3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1862+ words) 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 expand behind the hills and bracing for the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (790+ words) IDIOTEQ. com Grunge rocker San Vane refuses to let shoegaze swallow the vocal on "islander" We've had a run of shoegaze and grunge crossover pieces on the site over the past months, and that's no accident from this end. Grunge…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (661+ words) For anyone looking to show their mum what angry, organic, driving punk sounds like when it works better than coffee, this new single from Glasgow's Ochre is a fair place to start. She may need the weekend to recover, but…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (640+ words) The Magic City release the full album today, May 22, on digital, vinyl, and CD, with the whole thing available to stream now. The record lands with a release party tonight at The Burren in Somerville, where the band plays alongside…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (582+ words) From the first few seconds of "Inherent Violence," Black Mantra sound like a band pulling from several shelves at once: "90s hardcore, Revelation Records-adjacent bounce, reggae-punk, and the sort of fast melodic push that turns a room into movement before anyone…...

4+ day, 43+ min ago  (449+ words) Slovak band Sinner Self just dropped their new single "Malignant" today across streaming services, with the official music video set to premiere on You Tube on May 25th. Radovan from the band used the run-up to talk less about the track…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (583+ words) Major chords have never been my strong suit, but to avoid being a one-trick Tony, I wanted to try something a bit more upbeat and positive that still fit within the quite dour world of Velcro Dog," Gonzalez says of…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (332+ words) East Los Angeles Hyper Minds releases their visceral new single, "Sink or Swim" a hyper-analytical, three-minute track that transforms the pressure of high-stake situations into a sonic force. Much like the idiom, Hyper Minds employs speed and power to express…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (774+ words) The bad trip in "Dose" is not treated like a warning sign. For Trip Villain, it is closer to a operating condition: sweat, panic, bass pressure, body music, chemical overload, and the ugly little voice that says one more hit…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (940+ words) Ladra. Morde. A festa n'o para." Barks. Bites. The party doesn't stop. That's the tagline Mangualde attached to their debut album, A Festa," released April 17. The Porto trio cross neocrust, black metal, grindcore, mathcore, post-hardcore, and noise rock across eleven…...