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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, ...

Chimpgrinder sit in the dirtier end of sludge, with Sabbath-heavy riffs, hardcore breakdowns, bursts of blast beats and the kind of harsh room sound that points towards Melvins, Acid Bath, EYEHATEGOD ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a certain kind of emo and melodic indie rock that has always got to me very quickly. It has enough edge in the guitars to keep things interesting, but it never treats emotion as something ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Our debut full-length album features our previous guitarist,” they say, referring to Bill Kenny, who appears on the LP. “However, after a year or so hiatus we brought in a new guitar player, Chase ...

When Sungrave started writing their debut album, the songs were mostly concerned with what goes on inside a person’s head. Recognising yourself as you get older, trying to escape habits inherited from ...