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The Nicest Dude In Hardcore Is A “Pessimistic Dickhead”
Don’t worry; it’s okay to relax. This is not another angry missive or corporate cheerleading effort concerning the narrowing, post-covid intersection between hardcore punk and the concert-going...
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Jesus Piece Rise Again
It’s two hours before doors and the parking lot of San Diego’s preeminent metal club has turned into a makeshift gym. This is hardly a surprise on a night where Brick By Brick is hosting the World War...
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“The Last Remaining Band In India” Comes To America
Delhi is not for the faint of heart. First-time visitors to India’s capital are likely to be struck by just how loud the city is. The streets are swallowed by drivers constantly honking, wielding their...
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There’s No Reason Susanne Sundfør Should Still Be Norway’s Best-Kept Secret
There was a time when the comment section on this website was brimming with Susanne Sundfør’s name. Big Thief profile? OK, great, but where’s Susanne Sundfør? So you’ve got a file on Gwen Stefani?...
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Greg Mendez Got Clean, Honed His Craft, And Made The Best Album Of His Life
Greg Mendez has been around for a while, but you might not have noticed. He’s been a fixture of the Philly DIY scene since 2006, when he landed in the city from the New Jersey suburbs, though he didn’t...
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Boldy James Can’t Stop Rapping
“There’s two things you can’t escape, n***a, that’s death & taxes,” Boldy James recites on his B-side single with Nicholas Craven of the same name prior to their 2022 joint album, Fair Exchange, No...
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Welcome To Mandy, Indiana
1AM is not a good SXSW slot. Maybe it’s alright if you’re, like, Ashanti. You get to take the stage for an elite cadre of platinum AmEx holders, all of whom have spent the past eight hours in line...
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Formal Growth In The Midwest: An Interview With Protomartyr
“We liked stopping songs before we had to answer anything,” Joe Casey muses about Protomartyr’s past. The reflection comes right at the end of our conversation, one largely dedicated to what time means...
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The Struggle Behind Sauce Walka’s Chaotic Charisma
Sauce Walka, born Albert Walker Mondale, is standing in the recording studio of his record label EMPIRE’s office in Midtown Manhattan. He is slowly rocking his body back and forth while holding a...
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Angel Du$t’s Justice Tripp Is Ready To Reinvent Hardcore All Over Again
Justice Tripp has only ever wanted to be one thing: a creative person in a rock ‘n’ roll band. The 37-year-old Baltimore native may not be the first name one thinks of when people talk about hardcore’s...
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You Know Chris Farren Is Funny, But Did You Know His Music Is Also Great?
“My band is Chris Farren and my name is Chris Farren.” – Chris Farren
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MJ Lenderman Is Knockin’ On Rock Stardom’s Door
Everywhere I look, there’s Jake Lenderman. I first spot the tall, scraggly 24-year-old backstage at Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival on a Friday afternoon, telling an interviewer (not incorrectly)...
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There’s A New Marnie Stern Album(!) And She Told Us All About It
Last we heard from Marnie Stern, the indie-rock shredder was questioning the viability of her career as a recording artist. “The plan was to do this forever/ Can I still?” she asked on her 2013 album...
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For Kvelertak, Endling Is Another New Beginning
Kvelertak never got to take their full victory lap for Splid, the album that introduced vocalist Ivar Nikolaisen and drummer Håvard Takle Ohr to the world. Splid found the raucous Norwegian metalpunks...
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Katie Dey, Never Faltering
Katie Dey calls in from her home studio in Melbourne, nestled between the various synthesizers and keyboards and computer monitors that make up a corner of her bedroom. “If I had the money to do it...
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Jane Remover Can’t Stop Transforming
“That was a demo that I made in an hour. I submitted it as an assignment for a creative writing class. That’s how old this song is, I was still in school.”
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How Sun June Made Their Remarkable New Album Bad Dream Jaguar
There aren’t many indie bands that can say they owe their existence to Ryan Gosling, but Austin’s Sun June is one that can. Lead vocalist Laura Colwell and guitarist Stephen Salisbury, the project’s...
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Year Of The Knife’s Year Of Triumph And Tragedy
This past June was shaping up to be a typical month for Delaware metallic hardcore wreckers Year Of The Knife — which is to say it was busy as hell. They’d just returned home from a May weekender in...
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Rob Harvilla Talks ’90s Bangers & His New 60 Songs That Explain The ’90s Book
When all is said and done, Rob Harvilla will make at least 120 episodes of his podcast 60 Songs That Explain The ’90s. As you might’ve guessed from the title, this was not the plan. Rob’s show is my...
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Mo Troper Talks Troper Sings Brion, His New Album Covering Unreleased Jon...
Most music fans who know Jon Brion’s name recognize him as one of the greats. It’s likely you’ve heard the composer, producer, and pop singer-songwriter’s work with Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Elliott...
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Back To Love: On Robert Glasper’s Annual Blue Note Residency
It’s a Saturday afternoon in late October in New York City, and the Grammy winning jazz pianist, producer, writer, and arranger Robert Glasper has a problem that has plagued bandleaders for...
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Will Toledo On Car Seat Headrest’s New Album, Recovering From Long COVID, The...
When vaccines became available and the world began opening up again, many music fans wisely chose to play it safe by wearing masks to the live shows they had dearly missed. But Will Toledo, bandleader...
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ScarLip Is Speaking The Ugly Truth
“Everything is too pretty right now, so I am bringing back an ugly truth,” answers Bronx-born rap artist ScarLip (real name Sierra Lewis) when asked to describe her appeal and the role she feels she...
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Evilgiane & Surf Gang Are Changing The Sound Of Hip-Hop
D'Andre Williams">Despite never hitting the charts, “Goodbye Horses” became the sleeper hit of the ‘90s after appearing in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence Of The Lambs. Demme stumbled into a taxi...
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Marika Hackman On Panic Attacks, Autobiographical Art, Horny Songs, & Her...
Where has Marika Hackman been my whole life? A quick run-down: After a handful of EPs, the English musician released her first full-length in 2015, We Slept At Last, a collection of elegiac ballads,...
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Return To Infant Island
Suffering through shitty unpaid gigs doesn’t necessarily build character, but it can at least provide some perspective (or some enduring inside jokes) for bands who make it out of that phase. During...
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Chopping It Up With Benny The Butcher
“There’s so many conflicting thoughts going through your brain when you’re going through that situation,” explains Benny The Butcher. “There’s so much pressure.” The veteran rapper is commenting on a...
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Madi Diaz On Weird Faith, Love On Tour, And Her Late-Breaking Success
When Madi Diaz got the phone call that Harry Styles had handpicked her to open a string of his Love On Tour stadium shows, she really needed some good news. The Nashville singer-songwriter was stuck in...
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Kneecap On Their New Album, Movie, And Legal Battle With The UK Government
One thing is for certain: Belfast rap trio Kneecap are made of strong stuff.
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Stay Inside Are Glad Their Band Name Is No Longer Timely
Perhaps the most damning indictment of American current affairs is calling 2018 the “good ol’ days.” Around this time, Stay Inside were starting to link up with the likes of Good Looking Friends,...
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Westside Gunn Can’t Stop Shining
ProlificKid">“Buffalo was a thriving community where you could lead a nice little middle-class life,” recalls Westside Gunn (real name Alvin Lamar Worthy), the city’s most influential living rap...
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Upward Years Are Here: Inside Nothing’s Multi-Generational Shoegaze Fest...
“I’m really happy right now,” Domenic Palermo says, his voice quivering with joy. “I feel like I’m doing the right thing for once, and that’s not a normal thing for me.”
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Claire Rousay On “Emo Ambient,” Auto-Tune, And Her Stunning New Album Sentiment
The best way to consume Claire Rousay’s discography is to dive into the dozens of one-offs, collaborations, and subscriber exclusives on her Bandcamp. There, you’ll find a treasure trove of irreverent...
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Scowl’s Kat Moss On Tumblr, Radiohead, Being A Horse Girl, & Psychic Dance...
Since their formation in 2019, Scowl have been known for many things: a crazy show at a Sonic drive-thru, Post Malone donning their t-shirts, a Taco Bell ad campaign, a slot opening for Limp Bizkit,...
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“I Was Blindsided”: Sematary On Haunted Mound’s Upheaval, His Bold New...
It’s understandable if, in the fire hose of media attention paid last Friday to a certain superstar’s yee-haw turn, some less mainstream drops didn’t register on every radar. But in a very different,...
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Shabaka Puts Down The Sax
In 2022, Shabaka Hutchings began the process of unwinding an extraordinarily exciting career that he’d spent more than a decade building. As the leader of Sons Of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming, as well...
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Robert Pollard Told Us About Strut Of Kings, The Only New Guided By Voices...
Last year, Guided By Voices celebrated their 40th anniversary as a band in a way many other groups might have: by playing two triumphant hometown shows opened by an array of beloved peers and...
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Yeasayer’s Chris Keating On Going Solo, Covering Paula Abdul, And What It...
Brooklyn art-rockers Yeasayer have been broken up for nearly a half-decade now, and the band’s former members continue to branch out in its wake. Back in 2022, co-lead vocalist Anand Wilder released...
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Meet Beings, The New Experimental Supergroup With Zoh Amba, Steve Gunn, Jim...
What does faith sound like? How about respect, or trust? There Is A Garden, the new semi-improvised album from Brooklyn-based experimental supergroup Beings, answers these questions with scarcely a...
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