If you’re in the market for something genuinely and overwhelmingly brutal, allow me to recommend the Boise power trio Ingrown. Ingrown specialize in a form of metallic hardcore that’s both ultra-fast and ultra-heavy. Their guttural-roar music hits like prime Nails, and their videos are full of guns. A scary band! Exactly one year ago, Ingrown […]
Stream Crowning & Oaktails’ Tremendous Intercontinental Screamo Split
Crowning, the Chicago trio whose membership includes Frail Body leader Lowell Shaffer, are a serious force in the mutually supportive screamo underground, and they’re always down to release a split with another band. Crowning have a bunch of splits to their name. The way they do the splits, bitch, their pants might rip. Two years […]
Private Hell – “Wake Up Screaming” & “Warsaw” (Joy Division Cover)
Richmond metal-punks Private Hell have lately been talking about their plan to knock out a series of self-released flexis. The first of those EPs is called Wake Up Screaming, and it came out last Friday. The band already shared the towering opening track “Dead Inside,” and now you get to hear the other two joints, […]
Panda Bear – “Defense” (Feat. Cindy Lee)
A couple of months ago, Panda Bear released the Reset Mariachi EP with Sonic Boom. Today, the project of Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox is announcing a new album called Sinister Grift. The lead single “Defense” is out now, and it features Cindy Lee on guitar. Sinister Grift is Lennox’s first solo LP in five years, […]
Whispers – “Retribution”
Southeast Asia has a hardcore scene that’s currently thriving, and its flagship band might be Bangkok’s Whispers. Whispers have long been known for their ability to make big crowds of kids go nuts, and they’ve started doing that internationally more and more often. Expect more of that to happen, since Whispers just announced a new […]
Dehd – “Mr. Grieves” (Pixies Cover)
A Pixies cover is not an easy task, but Dehd have always been an expressive, daring band. Today, the indie rock trio — who released their fifth studio album Poetry earlier this year — tackled the Doolittle gem “Mr. Grieves.” The song originally appeared in the Hulu show The Great. The playful eccentricity is at […]
Watch DIIV Cover Pavement’s “Cream Of Gold” For SiriusXM
In May, DIIV released Frog In Boiling Water, one of the best albums of the year that somehow gets better every time I listen to it. Today, the shoegaze favorites stopped by SiriusXM to play a mesmeric, dark cover of Pavement’s “Cream Of Gold.” The band also performed the Terror Twilight track last month in […]
Another K-Pop Apology: Stans Pressure Seunghan Not To Rejoin RIIZE After Controversy
Being a K-pop star means always having to say you’re sorry. Imagine the South Korean pop machine as a technologically advanced, extremely online version of the old Hollywood studio system. Idols are expected to maintain a certain standard of behavior, and their transgressions are constantly surveilled and documented. That means that everytime one of the […]
Charli XCX Shares “Spring breakers” Remix With Kesha
You didn’t think the Brat rollout was over, did you? Charli XCX has been dominating the headlines all year, and she’s going to keep this thing going for as long as she possibly can. Just last week, Charli released her massive all-star remix album Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat. And she […]
Finneas Joins Billie Eilish In Newark, Covers Radiohead In The BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge
Finneas is out there promoting his new album For Cryin’ Out Loud! His travels recently brought him to the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, where he sat down and the piano and performed a solemn cover of Radiohead’s The Bends power ballad “Fake Plastic Trees.” The current jaunt is preventing him from participating in his […]