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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, ...

In 2024, FUET! had eight monthly Spotify listeners. The same year, the Madrid band were picked as one of six acts out of 1,600 applicants to play Mad Cool, one of Spain’s biggest international ...

Among the things Buga missed after years on the road were his wife, his dog, his guitar, his office and, with no irony at all, his own bathroom. It is a small detail, but it says plenty about ...

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 ...

The release show at Hideout paired Racetraitor with São Paulo’s Worst, Chicago death-metal-flavoured crustcore band Hell Is Real, and Chicago hardcore punks Snuffed. Hell Is Real had released ...

The last words an African grey parrot named Alex ever said to his handler were “You be good, I love you.” Decades after his death, those words sit on the front of a post-rock record from London. The ...

Keziah “KZ” Staska was at home, surrounded by peace, love and joy, and had no idea how to write another Dreamwell record. “The first song I wrote for the album was ‘Plath,’ so I started writing this ...

Break To Broken still carry plenty of the clipped guitars, restless rhythm and punk economy that first connected them through Fugazi and the wider Dischord orbit. On “The Hope Experiment“, that shared ...

Every weekday morning, Jack Grisham gets on a call with Paul Roessler. Fifteen minutes some days, close to an hour on others. They start with aches and complaints, walk deeper as the call goes, and ...

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 ...

Before the old Magnavox radio ended up on a French Inhaler record, it spent some time in Adam O’Leary’s dining room. He had tracked it down specifically for the band’s recording session, brought it ...