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 ...

As an independent magazine IDIOTEQ supports DIY ethics and local artists of all kinds. With no-ads policy and mission to give independent artists space they deserve, IDIOTEQ is a place to get inspired ...

My Death Diary have a strange kind of archive. Old gig photos survived (see loads of them below). Flyers and posters survived. Facebook still holds years of visual scraps, and the band still have a ...

Wellness built their debut around an almost unreasonable amount of work for a record that lasts 16 minutes. Their first full-band practice happened in June 2025. Months of demos, experiments and ...

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 ...

New York City indie rockers The Upsides have released a new music video for their song “New Jersey In The 90s”, and this one gets stuck pretty quickly. Synths sit all over the pleasant indie vibe, the ...

Spain are a Kingston, New York trio playing screamo and post-hardcore, and all five songs on “Bathyal” were finished before they had played a single show. They recorded them after roughly nine months ...

I just returned from another sell out year at ArcTanGent. The festival that has been held yearly since 2013 is primarily known for its boundary pushing lineup. Described as an independent event ...

New Jersey hardcore band If I Die are returning after 20 years for a single reunion show on September 19 at Locals Bar in Manalapan. The set is dedicated to their drummer Jesse Burke, who died towards ...