Born From Pain have a new EP planned for their thirtieth year, but vocalist Rob Franssen has also been spending a lot of time ...

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

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

Michael Coates had barely touched a guitar in more than a decade when one of his old ones ended up hanging on the wall of his office. At some point he started taking it down and playing again, without ...

When Serotonin drummer Jim Valosik sits behind his kit now, one cymbal is there because his wrist no longer bends far enough to reach the way it did when he was 19. He added a third crash simply so he ...

The release show at Hideout paired Racetraitor with São Paulo’s Worst, Chicago death-metal-flavoured crustcore band Hell Is Real, and Chicago hardcore punks Snuffed. Hell Is Real had released ...

Cannabis has always been in a gray area historically and socially. While often associated with underground culture (from music to certain neighborhoods), it’s always been provocative because of it’s ...

Russian Circles passed twenty years as a band in typically unspectacular fashion. They were halfway through the touring cycle for “Gnosis“, their eighth album, and spent 2024 playing Australia, South ...

There is a certain kind of emo and melodic indie rock that has always got to me very quickly. It has enough edge in the guitars to keep things interesting, but it never treats emotion as something ...

The day after Trouble Bound’s 25th anniversary show in July 2024, Johnny No-Keys woke up with a fast riff already moving around his head. The previous night had been one of those good ones, full of ...

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 ...

The strangest thing about calling an album “joy” is how quickly the word starts to look suspicious. Repeat it enough and it loses its certainty. Is joy pleasure? Contentment? Purpose? Relief? A ...