Slapshot played their last gig in Boston on 17 October 2026. For 41 years, Jack “Choke” Kelly had been shouting over fast drums, sick guitar riffs and some of ...

Deafheaven have unexpectedly released three new songs, and the accompanying film involves a rather remarkable name 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 ...

Fractured, broken, dark, unpredictable. Those are the words that surface first when you press play on the new Tetsuo EP, a four-track record that moves from chaotic hardcore through bedroom lo-fi into ...

Boston’s own HAYWIRE (617) just dropped their new single “Feeling Depressed”, off their upcoming EP “For Better or For Worse,” set for release on November 7, 2024, via DAZE. “Feeling Depressed” ...

Four pieces around ten minutes each, one acoustic guitar, and progressive rock and metal language underneath them. “Wars of Abstraction” is the debut from L’eveil, Matthew Nichols’ project from ...

Antillectual are spending 2026 marking twenty-five years as a band. After anniversary shows in the Netherlands and Canada, their summer run reached Germany and Austria. Another European stretch will ...

I recently attended my fifth Outbreak Festival in Manchester, and it’s hard for me to admit, but it felt different this year. I will preface this article by saying, I have all the love in the world ...

The title of Hammock’s fourteenth album comes from a specific night. Two friends on LSD, both raised fundamentalist Christian, sitting on a gazebo over a pond in small-town Arkansas, watching a light ...

There is a small moment inside “Loss In Space” where Cluv Deego can be heard telling bassist Dudesblood Moonbear when to enter with the layered vocals. Sliimo were tracking the song themselves in ...

Six songs of meandering clean guitars, vocals that crack right at the consonants, and choruses where the whole band ends up at the mic. Mock Bishop call themselves emo revival revival on Instagram, ...

Before this album, the band say songs usually started in pieces — a riff here, a few lyrics there — before one or two people would finish them. The EPs worked differently because each song mostly came ...