Long Island’s Kill Your Idols got together in 1995, and they released three albums of fast, hooky melodic hardcore before breaking up in 2007. The band’s heyday coincided with a boom in Long Island hardcore and emo, and their soaring ferocity made them cult heroes. Kill Your Idols reunited to play the 2013 Black N […]
Stream BRAHM’s Quick-Hit Ripshit Screamo EP I try to rage against it
Once upon a time, this website named the Depeche Mode-influenced trio BRAHMS a Band To Watch. This post is not about that band. It’s about BRAHM, with no “S” on the end, who play frantic ripshit screamo. According to Zegema Beach Records, BRAHM features members of No Right, Fentanyl, Outlier, and the Mountain Chime. Their […]
Meshuggah – “Light The Shortening Fuse”
Next month, the vastly influential long-running Swedish metal band Meshuggah will release Immutable, their first new album in six years. Meshuggah essentially pioneered a whole strain of proggy, complex math-metal, and they still bring that sound with more ferocity and majesty than just about anyone else. We’ve already posted “The Abysmal Eye,” the first single […]
Brush – “Cat”
Brush are a band based out of New York featuring former members of Adult Dude and Dan Frelly, who used to be in Chumped and Katie Ellen. They’ve been releasing singles and EPs since 2017 — including their most recent, 2019’s Teenage Time Machine — and now they’re ready to put out their debut full-length […]
Daniel Bachman Surprise-Released A Short Story Collection And Its 45-Minute Drone-Folk Soundtrack
Daniel Bachman is known as a prolific guitarist, composer, and producer, and he’s just added author to that list. Sycamore City & Other True Stories is a new short story collection from Bachman, released by surprise today with a companion soundtrack. The musical component is one single 45-minute song called “Cemetery Music,” a folk-tinged drone […]
Soul Glo – “Driponomics” (Feat. Mother Maryrose)
Later this month, the convulsive Philly hardcore expressionists Soul Glo will release Diaspora Problems, their first album for Epitaph records. We already posted first single “Jump!! (Or Get Jumped!!!)((by the future)),” which goes crazy. Today, the band has shared a very different song from the same LP. Soul Glo have been playing around with rap […]
Madi Diaz – “Forever (New Feelings Version)” (Feat. Angel Olsen)
Last year, the Nashville singer and songwriter Madi Diaz released her powerful album History Of A Feeling. As a sort of companion-piece follow-up, Diaz has just come out with a new EP called Same History, New Feelings. On the new EP, Diaz has re-recorded four of the songs from her album, and she’s done them […]
Pusha T Performs “Diet Coke” Amidst A Snowstorm On Colbert & Releases Nigo Collab “Hear Me Clearly”
Last month, cold-blooded rap legend Pusha T released the hard-as-fuck single “Diet Coke.” Kanye West co-produced the track with 88-Keys, and it’s a rare indication that Kanye West might still be able to occasionally make good music these days. Pusha performed the track at Kanye’s Donda 2 stadium listening-event thing last week, and he performed […]
Watch Band Of Horses Play “Crutch” On Fallon & Stream Their Best Album In Years
Band Of Horses have a new album out today, their best in a very long time. It’s called Things Are Great, and it finds Ben Bridwell and friends tapping back into the vibrantly poppy, lightly rootsy, dreamily anthemic indie-rock sound that made them stars in the mid-aughts. We interviewed Bridwell about about the new LP […]
Ted Leo – “Ping Pong” (Stereolab Cover)
Indie rock elder god Ted Leo is now more than 20 years into a great solo career. Leo hasn’t released a new album since 2017’s The Hanged Man, though he did come out with the new track “Into The Conquering Sun” a few months ago. Today, for Bandcamp Friday, Leo has put together a few […]