• Recommended Album: Lifeguard – ‘Ripped and Torn’

    Recommended Album: Lifeguard – ‘Ripped and Torn’

    The debut album from the young Chicago indie punk trio overdelivers in leaving little behind the surface of their unglossed, raw energy.

  • Nuclear Daisies – “Infinite Joy”

    Nuclear Daisies – “Infinite Joy”

    The Austin big beat alternative trio venture into a personal level of Hell where the voices surrounding you want nothing but the worst for you, yet are all too pleased to have you there with them.

  • The Queen & I – “Everything Hurts”

    The Queen & I – “Everything Hurts”

    If pain is indeed weakness leaving the body, then the Queen & I are putting in the hard work to replace it with a much better feeling on the latest highlight off their new album, ‘At Peace’.

  • Clipse – “So Be It”

    Clipse – “So Be It”

    As ice cold as it flows, the only thing left remaining once hip-hop’s most calculated killers-by-mic are done here is all that smoke.

  • Alex G – “June Guitar”

    Alex G – “June Guitar”

    In a season where so many oft romanticize daydreams of everything being endless, Alex G reminds us that those, too, shall eventually pass.

  • Jobber – “Nightmare”

    Jobber – “Nightmare”

    The lead single from the Brooklyn rockers’ debut album attempts to counter the evergreen existential grips of being leg-locked by capitalism.

  • Haywire – “Summer Nights”

    Haywire – “Summer Nights”

    A seasonably astute tutorial on how to properly hang with your friends and get fucked up with them, off the gruff Boston hardcore boot boys’ latest split.

  • crushed – “starburn”

    crushed – “starburn”

    It’s gravity’s undertow instead of the air where the maximalist dream-pop duo are going on the lead single off their debut album, ‘no scope’.

  • Nick Sylvester – “Jaki”

    Nick Sylvester – “Jaki”

    The smartdumb experimental producer and composer turns the switch on with your senses before disintegrating them altogether on the early highlight from his debut album, ‘Stereo Music for Breakbeats and Samples’.

  • Recommended EP: Cosmic Joke – ‘Forced Perspective’

    Recommended EP: Cosmic Joke – ‘Forced Perspective’

    As the world continues to burn down again for an umpteenth summer, at least we’ve got five great new reasons to soundtrack it with a skate jam into Hell with the SoCal hardcore punks’ new EP, ‘Forced Perspective’.


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