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Recommended Album: High Vis – ‘Guided Tour’
On their third album, the London melodic hardcore and post-punk band gleams through the greyscale and sounds more ready than ever to face strife head-on.
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Knifeplay – “Spirit Echo”
You may not be able physically see the physical outlines of the Philly experimental alternative rockers, but you feel their presence all around you.
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Superheaven – “Long Gone”
The second coming of the seminal grungy post-hardcore band isn’t promising salvation, but it’s good to have them back to burn with the rest of the world.
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Poppy Jean Crawford – “Glamorous”
All Hell hath no fury howl and squalor from the Los Angeles grunge goth-pop songwriter in her contribution to the Angel Olsen-curated compilation, ‘Cosmic Waves Volume 1’.
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Recommended Album: The Cure – ‘Songs of a Lost World’
Following a period of creative dormancy, the goth rock pioneers return to swallow the world whole all over again with their 16th studio album.
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Haywire feat. Fizzy – “Clocktower Place”
The highlight from the Boston hardcore band’s new EP ‘For Better Or For Worse’ will make you do a double take.
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Recommended Album: ELUCID – ‘REVELATOR’
The burly, muscular fist behind Armand Hammer lets himself off the leash to combat this world is dog with all fire and fury.
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Expose – “Speed Dial”
The Los Angeles experimental jazz-core quintet’s sound comes in fast and impossible to trace on the lead single off their debut album, ‘ETC’.
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Recommended Album: Regional Justice Center – ‘FREEDOM SWEET FREEDOM’
The extreme hardcore band of Ian Shelton and his brother Max Hellesto breaks free and ponders if the debt paid to society truly ever does go away.
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FACS – “Wish Defense”
The lead single and title track off the Chicago experimental art-rock trio’s new album aims a mirror straight at the self, or at least someone remsembling you.
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Cloakroom – “Unbelonging”
A fascinating shift away from the heavygaze atmosphere and into the neon psychedelic hues of the cosmos from the Indiana trio.
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Interview: Full Blown Meltdown On ‘For Once in My Life’, His New Split With The Acid Flashback at Nightmare Beach and Cyborg9K
The DIY emo hype man discusses the origin story behind his new split with his scene peers alongside his journey since his 2023 breakthrough, ‘Mollify’.