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 ...

Firestone Elementary disappeared for two decades and came back because teenagers started finding them. The five friends from Painesville, Ohio made their version of emo and post-hardcore in the early ...

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 ...

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 ...

BDR began with Andy Franchere and his son Brody making a demo together in Tehachapi, California. Brody wrote the music, they wanted fast roots hardcore, and the band grew from there. For Andy, who has ...

SPLIN are a new band made up of people who have already spent years in Polish punk and hardcore through AFTER LAUGHTER, MOIRA, BRUDNE CZYNY, ZAWODY and SLAVENKUST. Each of them came in with an idea ...

PPR PPL are a new Boston project from Peter W. Bartash, working here under the P. Willem name after thirty years as a drummer. Their music pulls alternative rock through post-hardcore, shoegaze and ...

Denver hardcore band Tunnel Jumper write about what has been getting under their skin: MAGA politics, corporate money, environmental damage, healthcare for profit, algorithmic social media, and their ...

A recent trip through the US has probably messed with my ears a little. I came back giving Americana and country a lot more time than I used to. Then Spanish Love Songs announced “Future Nausea”, and ...

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 ...

Every Wednesday, Frayed Ends BC would spend three or four hours pulling apart whatever had landed in the band WhatsApp that week. Guitarist Steve Martin was sending rough demos from home, vocalist ...