It’s a waste of time trying to explain the appeal of grindcore to you—or anyone, for that matter. You get it or you don’t. You’re…
Life lessons learned the hard way: Easycore is a dopey genre category that should forever be dead and buried, but we still encourage you to…
Descendents are easily one of the most accomplished punk bands to come out of the 80’s. If you’ve ever listened to punk, you’ve probably heard…
One of the cool things about the decline of America is that they sell shrooms at bodegas now. I walked out of that corner store…
Presumably BitTorrent’s favorite band, Death Grips have been legends of the underground music community for over a decade. And in the years that have followed…
Des Moines, Iowa’s Slipknot has been rocking venues tattered and torn since 1995, and you gruff punk mockers need to stop acting like you are…
Russian Circles is one of the most reliable workhorse bands in all of indie metal. They’re 99.9% instrumental, they eschew gimmickry of any sort, and,…
Deafheaven appeared out of nowhere in 2011 with a solid debut LP, and then became the decade’s most exhaustively-argued-about purveyors of heavy music in 2013.…
Ah, the 2000s. A simpler time, when a thousand weird mp3 blogs all named “Melted Acetate Owl” or something were a thing. Climate change and…
Indiana Jones was introduced to the world in the year 1981, and so was Canada’s SNFU. Both traveled the world having oddball adventures, searching for…
You remember Lagwagon, your older brother listened to them during his brief punk phase before going off to college and becoming an investment banker. Hailing…
Serious question: when ranking the best hardcore bands of all time, does Poison the Well ever get brought up? Because they should at least be…
Florida is a methadone-sponsored and trauma-inducing wasteland that should forever and ever times infinity be removed from everyone’s memory along with your aunt’s favorite Rhodes…
Do you remember those Victory Records commercials that regularly appeared on Fuse? Rather, do you even remember Fuse? If you can say “yes” to one…
With a name like Pissed Jeans, the uninitiated might assume they’d be more akin to GG Allin than say, METZ. But the boys from Allentown,…