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Avenged Sevenfold surprise dropped an experimental new EP last night (July 23) called 'STATICA' with four brand new songs. Continue reading…

(In June of this year the Peruvian band Psicorragia released their third album. We had the pleasure of premiering a video for one of its great songs, and today we take pleasure in presenting Comrade Aleks’ excellent discussion with Psicorragia’s Mario Romanet.) Peruvian death-doom band Psicorragia, led by bassist and vocalist Mario Romanet, has been […]

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Michael Angelakos was a student at Boston’s Emerson College when he started writing the songs that would become his band Passion Pit’s 2008 debut EP Chunk Of Change. Since Angelakos actually started Passion Pit at Emerson in 2006, he’s now celebrating Passion Pit’s 20th anniversary. He’s not the only one celebrating the anniversary; the city of Boston has officially declared today, July 24th, to be Passion Pit Day.

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This Boz Scaggs A-to-Z songs list follows his long musical route through original songs, standards, blues interpretations, soundtrack recordings, anthology exclusives, and the late-career albums that kept opening new doors. William Royce “Boz” Scaggs grew up in Plano, Texas, after arriving there by way of Canton, Ohio, and McAlester, Oklahoma. Lessons on cello at age nine yielded to a guitar by twelve, thanks to schoolmate Steve Miller, with whom Scaggs fronted the Marksmen while attending Dallas’s St. Mark’s School. The pair carried their partnership to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, gigging in blues combos such as the Ardells before Scaggs dropped

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The Double Trouble Double Vision trek spans nearly 20 dates through the end of August. Continue reading…

Watch XTINGUISH THE CODE’s “Falling Down” video HERE.

Bronx-based metallic hardcore band XTINGUISH THE CODE has issued a new video for “Falling Down,” the track found on the band’s second album, The Conflict, out now on Grey Matter Records.

A band with NYHC running through their DNA, XTINGUISH THE CODE formed in 2019, currently uniting bassist Dusty Onita (Apparition, 4 In Tha Chamber), drummer Nate Boogie (Lake Lanier, No Weapon, MAAFA), guitarist The Professor G Flava (Apparition, No Weapon, Waist In Flesh, Gemini Method), and vocalist BJ Allen (Zero Trust, Full Scale Riot, GMK).

Delivering streetwise, energetic, beatdown-driven and groove-based hardcore, infused with elements of metal, hip-hop, and more, the band has played with D.R.I., Sworn Enemy, Downset, Madball, Life Of Agony, Sick Of It All, and many others. Following their Step To My World debut (2021) and subsequent Matter Of Fact EP (2023), (both through 1054 Records), XTINGUISH THE CODE hooked up with Grey Matter Records for the release of their second album, The Conflict.

XTINGUISH THE CODE’s explosive hybrid of rabid antagonism culminates on The Conflict, which not only marks the band’s first release with new drummer Nate Boogie and vocalist BJ Allen, it’s also the band’s first time creating a conceptual release, crafting a story that touches on working-class solidarity and global awakening.

Each song is meant to portray a person’s transformation from an ordinary resident to a radicalized citizen. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joe Kusak at Amplitude Recording, former vocalist Kevin Lugo provides additional guest vocals on the track “Safe Space.” XTINGUISH THE CODE’s The Conflict is prime listening for fans of Incendiary, Burn, E-Town Concrete, Backtrack, Merauder, Bulldoze, Sworn Enemy, Downset, and Madball.

The new video for the record’s tense, succinct closing track “Falling Down” was filmed by Jojo Moran. Vocalist BJ Allen writes, “‘Falling Down’ is about a citizen, reaching their final breaking point.”

Watch XTINGUISH THE CODE’s “Falling Down” video now playing on YouTube HERE.

The Conflict is out now on LP, CD, and digitally via Grey Matter Records’ webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. The previously released “Despair” lyric video is playing HERE.

XTINGUISH THE CODE continues to play nonstop across the NYC metropolitan area. With new activities booked into the Fall, including shows in Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, and across New York, more widespread touring is in the works.

XTINGUISH THE CODE Live:
8/07/2026 Upstage Music Fest @ Clearfield Events Building – Clearfield, PA
8/15/2026 Tribute To Kevin Scondotto @ Lucky 13 Saloon – Brooklyn, NY
9/12/2026 Polish Community Center – Herkimer, NY
10/10/2026 The Congress Hardcore Community – San Juan, PR
10/31/2026 TV Eye – Queens, NY

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Red Rocker invites his counterpart to join his band for Las Vegas residency, even it’s just to compare the shows. Continue reading…

Once upon a time, U2 tried to make dance music. After successfully reinventing themselves as ironic aesthetes on Achtung Baby and Zooropa, U2 steered all the way into the late-’90s electronica hype wave on their 1997 album Pop, and the result was not what they wanted. U2 quickly abandoned that aesthetic path, leaning into classic sounds and elder-statesman status on later records. So it’s interesting to hear U2 teaming up with the Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix now — not just after the electronica thing became a distant memory, but also after the boom of festival-ready EDM that Garrix represents became old news.

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Rochester iconoclasts Sulaco are quite possibly one of the best kept secrets in underground metal. Fronted by fret wizard Erik Burke (ex-Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault, Lethargy and many more), this quintet has been busy obliterating genre lines for over 20 years. We’re so enamored by their technical wizardry that the Decibel Flexi Series is proud to present “Curtains,” an exclusive track only available to our subscribers! Ready to open your eyes and, more importantly, ears to these enemies of the sun? Be sure to sign up for a deluxe Decibel subscription by Friday, July 31 to secure your copy of this essential track. Wait too long and it’ll be drapes for you! Or something.

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The fifth and final installment in Bernie Marsden’s Inspirations Series, STAGE, will be released on August 21 through Conquest Music.

Available as a limited edition 2LP gatefold set and a deluxe 2CD digipack featuring a 16-page booklet, STAGE showcases four live performances spanning more than two decades of Marsden’s career.

Each side of the vinyl is dedicated to a different concert, highlighting the variety of Marsden’s live performances. The collection includes an acoustic performance with strings from The Radcliffe Centre in Buckingham in 2008, an electric set with a brass section from Keeping The Blues Alive at Sea in 2019, a 1996 performance at Norway’s Notodden Blues Festival featuring Snowy White, Tony Ashton, David Levy and Henry Spinetti, and a 2020 concert at Under The Bridge in London with a six-piece band and special guest Joe Bonamassa.

Ahead of the album’s release, a digital EP is now available featuring a live version of “Walking By Myself” from the Under The Bridge performance. Bonamassa joins Marsden on the track for an extended guitar duet. The EP also includes four additional live recordings that do not appear on STAGE: “Wheels Within Wheels,” “Hold On (I Feel Our Love Is Changing),” “Working For The CSA,” and “Funny People.” A crowd-shot performance video for “Walking By Myself” has also been released.

Following Marsden’s passing in 2023 at the age of 72, several musicians paid tribute to the legendary guitarist.

Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers):

“He really was a master of his art”

Steve Lukather:

“Tone and touch and taste. That was Bernie.”

Joe Bonamassa:

“He was a superstar in every imaginable way.”

Marsden’s Inspirations Series began in 2021 with KINGS, followed by CHESS, TRIOS, and ICONS, each paying tribute to artists who influenced his guitar playing and songwriting. The series followed the release of his 2023 album of original material, WORKING MAN.

Conquest Music’s Alan Bambrough said the label felt the series would not have been complete without documenting Marsden’s abilities as a live performer.

“Bernie Marsden was such a charismatic and witty person. In his understated way, he would manage to have any audience engaged and involved within a couple of songs.

We felt that his Inspirations Series would be incomplete without including a glimpse of that magic that he conjured up on stage.

There were so many great live recordings in his archive that it was tough to limit the album to just two discs sampling four different shows.”

The accompanying booklet also features sleeve notes from Steelhouse Festival founders Mikey and Max, including the following excerpt:

“A true master of his craft, a lover of music, a Steelhouse legend and above all, the most genuine and gracious of men, Bernie was responsible for making some amazing moments happen on the stage as well as providing humour, encouragement and perspective off it…Thanks so much, Bernie…Your name will always echo across that mountain.”

TRACK LISTING

LP Side A

1. Till the Day I Die
2. The Time Is Right for Love
3. Out On The Western Plains
4. Ain’t No Love in the Heart of the City

LP Side B

1. Boss of the Blues
2. Reconsider Baby
3. Watch Out
4. Worried Life Blues

LP Side C

1. Down Home Blues
2. I’m Tore Down
3. Love That Burns
4. Oh Well

LP Side D

1. Walking in the Shadow of the Blues
2. I’ll Play the Blues For You
3. Walking By Myself

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