Meet Assistert Sjølmord, a Norwegian hardcore band whose name translates to Assisted Suicide. They released their self-titled debut EP on Friday, and it’s seven tracks of gritty, feral greatness.
The Oslo crew is without breaks on Assistert Sjølmord, which follows their 2021 demo. The longest song on the EP is a minute and 31 seconds, so no time is wasted and every moment is unruly. Dive into its mayhem below.
Earlier this summer, the thunderously ignorant, rap-inflected hardcore band Gridiron were selling Charli XCX parody shirts. It had the Brat green and the font, but it said “Grid.” If you saw that shirt out in the wild, would you get it? Does anyone even refer to Gridiron as just “Grid”? It’s so stupid! I love […]
At this point, nobody is too cool to make Christmas music. The Los Angeles indie-pop singer-songwriter Molly Burch was way ahead of everyone else on that. Burch released her Daydreamer LP last year, and she dropped an entire Christmas album called The Molly Burch Christmas Album back in 2019, and she followed it with the […]
Bartees Strange is in the middle of rolling out his new album Horror, but he’s taking a break from that today to give us a great new holiday single. “Xmas” finds Strange tapping into that Mk.gee/1975 guitar sound and borrowing some melodic phrasing from Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” in service of pure, uncut seasonal melancholia. […]
