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ROBO PUMPKIN's indie emo debut "The Autumn Here" arrives without a single guitar on the record
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (537+ words) Fall in Boston is moving season. On their debut LP "The Autumn Here," out today, Robo Pumpkin tell the story of the couple who don't get out: two people in a shared house, watching their friends leave one by one…...
Introducing: Belgian hardcore quartet WRVNG - "Spectacle of Fear" single dropped!
3+ hour, 53+ min ago (636+ words) Twenty years into putting on shows and playing in Belgian punk and hardcore crews, the four people who became Wrvng looked around, found the same amount of anger sitting in everyone, and decided the moment called for it. "Spectacle of…...
Nebraska emo band LOU LOU LOUIE! discuss small emo scene, four-hour round trips, and "Social Smoking"
4+ hour, 20+ min ago (696+ words) The opening track on Lou Lou Louie! s debut album "Social Smoking" is called "Kaio-ken x10". For Dragon Ball fans, the reference is immediate: a martial arts technique that greatly boosts the user's strength and fighting prowess at the expense of…...
Polish grungegaze quartet MARCH DOVE on Jungian shadows, Japanese shoegaze, and the One Piece scenes hiding in their songs
4+ hour, 42+ min ago (770+ words) Every song March Dove have put out so far points to the same line. "Skyfalling, "Buster Call, "Descender, "Jubilation: all four point back to the title of their unannounced debut album, "I want to live. It's the kind of throughline…...
Gab De La Vega returns to Canada for a month of solo shows
5+ hour, 18+ min ago (401+ words) I'm extremely happy to be coming back to Canada and bringing the acoustic Life Burns tour to a country that means a lot to me," Gab says. It all starts at Pouzza Fest and then I'll be playing across Quebec…...
Instrumental math rockers COMPREHENDING step outside Sweden for the first time with FOR EXAMPLE JOHN this summer
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (354+ words) That's roughly how Comprehending's first shows outside Sweden actually started taking shape. 22. 05 Sopot, Dwie Zmiany (with Violet Ambulance) 23. 05 Warsaw, Pracovnia Art Club (with Violet Ambulance) 12. 06 Uppsala, Kulturhuset Femman (with Noodles For My Poodles) 13. 06 "rebro, Kvarteret & Co (with Sire) The "rebro…...
BRAT FARRAR channel early Wipers and Husker Du on "Group", their first full-band album
1+ day, 8+ min ago (952+ words) Brat Farrar started as one person and grew into four. That's not the usual direction. Sam Agostino made the early records alone in a Melbourne bedroom, feeding everything through drum machines and programmed parts; five LPs, a pile of 45s and…...
Philly's BLUNT FORCE push back on apolitical hardcore across their harsh debut demo
1+ day, 36+ min ago (289+ words) Blunt Force came together when their guitarist clocked their future vocalist's No Time shirt at a Spectral Voice show and the two of them stayed talking for the rest of the gig. A couple projects after that never got off…...
ALARM! return with "Failure By Design," shaped by a closed Corby steelworks and a Chomsky documentary
1+ day, 49+ min ago (1147+ words) Gareth Smith keeps a notebook for titles. Most come from books. The one for Alarm! s second LP came from Josh Bivens Failure By Design, a book he heard Noam Chomsky reference in the documentary Requiem For the American Dream....
Bergamo's horror punk rockers THE CRIMSON GHOST wrap their three-EP horror cycle with Witchcraft
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (572+ words) Thirteen years after forming in Bergamo as a Misfits tribute act, The Crimson Ghost have closed the horror trilogy they've been releasing in three-song installments. "Witchcraft", the third and final EP, just dropped, which means the project now exists as…...