Category: Music News
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Rome, Italy’s Feldspar have announced that their new full length, Soft Side, will be released on 9th October, on their new album Feldspar make their power-pop physical, transforming hooky immediacy with hardcore bite and muscle, blending an American rhythmic backbone with a British voice and an Italian heart. The band have also revealed the lead single, Heart Is A Ghetto, which…
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France’s Satanic Sex Cult is what happens when musicians who spent years playing and touring together refuse to stay silent. Formed in 2024 by members of Illegal Process and drawing equally from punk, noise, black metal aesthetics, transgressive literature, and nihilist philosophy, the band have developed a sound with no ceiling and no floor. Satanic Sex…
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Punx Can’t Laugh is returning to Toronto for a full weekend of music and comedy that will take place between the 17th and 19th September at Ted’s Collision & Bovine Sex Club. The Punx Can’t Laugh Weekender will feature some of North America’s best punk rock bands and stand up comedians who will be tearing it…
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Jack Grisham & The Life Undone is a new project by Calfornia’s Jack Grisham (TSOL / The Joykiller) and Berlin’s Lars Triesch (Profession Reporter), The pair met at The Punk Rock Museum when Triesch was in Las Vegas researching a new book on photographer Edward Colver, which led to months of online collaboration. Despite some…
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Harkening to the golden age of blog-era Brooklyn, Compandas, the new project from Short Fictions vocalist & guitarist Sam Treber, aims to renaissance a joyful DIY sound that the world seems to have traded for delusions of “making it.” This punk band from Pittsburgh is culturally more Mediafire than they are Instagram. What if the…
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Ontario’s Among Legends have released their new full-length, Lose My Grip, via Sell The Heart Records (US), ADD Records (US), Steady Riot Records (Canada) and Little Rocket Records (UK). The band have spent nearly a decade carving out their place through constant touring, self-released EPs, lineup shifts, and long stretches of highway between shows. Their roots trace back to southern…
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Minnesota’s Tightwire and Chicago’s Canadian Rifle have teamed up for six songs of love and hate on the Nietzsche split EP that is now available through streaming platforms, Bandcamp and on 7″ gatefold vinyl via Red Scare Industries. Tightwire will also be heading out on tour in the US with Teenage Bottlerocket and The Drowns…
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When asked to describe themselves, the members of 3 Dollars instantly share “scrappy, youthful and hungry.” Though still young themselves, most of the members began playing music before the age of 10, with Ben, the youngest, starting drums at 4 years old. The Hoboken, New Jersey based band started in high school writing melancholic emo-punk…
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Essentially the distilled essence of ’60s girl-group pop that has been Jiffypopped in a fuzzy, lo-fi punk Betty Crocker oven, legendary Japanese punk trio Shonen Knife have effectively channeled Ramones-styled three-chord trope for four decades now. Replacing the black leather and bowl haircuts with cotton candy and plushy stuffed animals, they swap sneering unapproachability with abrasive huggability.…
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Newcastle, UK’s Pit Pony have today release new single Thunder. Rooted in the vivid wonder of one of lead vocalist Jackie’s childhood memories, the track draws on a moment when a friend claimed to have seen Thor in the clouds during a storm, and, instead of dismissing it, her dad simply said he believed her. That sense of…