Reviews Album review: HourHouse – Gold Tooth GuruNew Orleans five-piece HourHouse offer up an unrestrained debut that’s much better than its cover would have you believe…
Reviews Album review: Taking Back Sunday – 152Taking Back Sunday return after seven years with their eighth – and possibly best – album.
Reviews Album review: Sincere Engineer – Cheap GrillsAmusingly serious confessionals from emotive and poppy Chicago punks Sincere Engineer…
Features Spanish Love Songs: “I’ll never be comfortable with death. But it’s also freeing, because you might as well just do the things you love”Los Angeles punk rockers Spanish Love Songs have always focused on the sad parts of life. But on their ironically-titled fourth album No Joy, vocalist Dylan Slocum is learning to enjoy them a little bit more.…
Features The XCERTS: “We wanted to write songs like we were 14 again – nothing was off the table”After five years away The XCERTS are back with new album Learning How To Live And Let Go: a record that originally saw the trio tackle their sense of identity and worth head-on, but has ultimately led the Britrock underdogs to find inner peace.
Reviews Album review: Fiddlehead – Death Is Nothing To UsOn their sublime third album, post-hardcore supergroup Fiddlehead finally start coming to terms with death…
Reviews Book review: Geoff Rickly – Someone Who Isn’t MeThursday singer Geoff Rickly explores the darkest recesses of his psyche and his life on his sublime debut novel…
Features Greta Van Fleet: “The intention is to communicate an idea, to challenge people, to celebrate, to be present, and to heal”Who are Greta Van Fleet? To find out the answer we travelled to Nashville to meet the band and find out why what we thought was a simple question actually one shrouded in fantasy and the duality of self… and a delight in blowing things up.
The Cover Story The Dirty Nil: “We despise and cackle at the carnival game that is the music industry”The Dirty Nil are through playing games. After a period of mismanagement and being forced to jump through industry hoops with no actual benefit, they’ve rediscovered what really matters: rock’n’roll. With a newfound lust for loudness, the Canadian punks are back doing things on their own terms and will fight any deity who gets in their way…
Reviews Album review: Militarie Gun – Life Under The GunStunning, genre-defying debut offering from idiosyncratic Los Angeles (post-)hardcore outfit Militarie Gun…
Features 10 reasons why you need Soul Glo in your lifeHardcore is having a lovely time at the moment. With last year’s Diaspora Problems album, Soul Glo are only adding fuel to the engine. If you’re not on board yet, vocalist Pierce Jordan explains why you need to get in on their Glo-up…
Features OTTTO: “We like to have fun, but that doesn’t mean our songs can’t be dark and aggressive”Meet Californian surf punks OTTTO: the hyper-ambitious trio who refuse to be pigeonholed and just want to have fun…
Reviews Album review: The St Pierre Snake Invasion – GaloreUneasy listening from experimental, genre-defying, heavy-hitting Bristol quintet The St Pierre Snake Invasion.
Features Narrow Head and the different shades of darkness behind Moments Of ClarityIt can take something life-altering to make you realise what’s truly important, and for Narrow Head’s Jacob Duarte, that clarity came through processing the loss of loved ones. Here the frontman explores how his new perspective on existence is changing him for the better…
Reviews Album review: Codefendants – This Is CrimewaveTruly stunning debut album by the new project of NOFX’s Fat Mike, Get Dead’s Sam King and rapper Ceschi that’s as real as it gets…
Reviews Album review: Can’t Swim – Thanks, But No ThanksFourth album by New Jersey’s Can’t Swim can’t quite live up to its own promise…