A blown-out bass line, two minutes and eight seconds, and a title that says more than it first appears to. “My Name” arrived as one of the clearest early signs of what
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The origin story for “Dane Valley,” Man Band’s lead single, is almost too on-the-nose. Chainy Rabbit — the band’s vocalist
After however many consecutive days of blast beats and feedback, something slow and open sounds less like a stylistic choice
Tromsø sits above the Arctic Circle — far enough north that summer doesn’t get dark and winter doesn’t get light.
“Volatile Simian Nervous-System” opens like a system crash – feedback, drum hits, two vocalists tearing at each other across a
There’s a streak of honest self-awareness in how The Ape talk about “Anticrats.” “Nothing original about it,” the Norwegian post-hardcore
Rob Savillo banned stage banter. Replaced it entirely with harsh noise interludes. “I did not want to give the audience
Eddy Marflak spends his days running an intervention and accountability program for men who have caused harm to their partners
Seven years ago, Nikos Giannaris had never played bass, didn’t know what a guitar pedal was, and was sitting in
Alberto Cornero admits upfront that breaking down Ape Unit songs is a strange exercise. “The music we play is so
HOLOCAUSTS, the Israeli anti-Zionist crust punk band, and what resistance looks like from the inside
Several months ago, here in Mexico, I began receiving hateful and threatening anti Jewish emails and whatsapp messages. Jewish people
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The tapes were sitting somewhere else the whole time. Back in May 2003, not long after Time Spent Driving had already split, a message went out to J. Robbins about mixing a
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The back door of a brick bungalow in Evanston doesn’t look like much. Walk through it, head downstairs, cut past the laundry room, and you end up winding through a record collection and a jukebox before the space opens into something else: a room
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The sessions happened early in 2024 at Electrical Audio, with Steve Albini
Los Angeles industrial trio Signal Bleach’s new music video “Rats Eating Rats”
There’s a version of that mid-2000s New Jersey circuit that still hangs
The third single from (16)’s upcoming covers record lands like a confession.
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There’s a very specific image that sticks: Mitsuru Tabata outside Nakano Sunplaza in February 1992, not going into the Nirvana show, just waiting for the doors to open so he could hand out flyers for Steve Albini’s first Japan tour. People walked out talking
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Three years ago, Cathedral Bells were mapping out a hazy interior world—pulling
There’s barely any downtime in Shooting Daggers’ orbit. If they’re not playing
Doug wakes up already behind. The room isn’t his, the light’s too
There’s a point where everything collapses at once and you either disappear
