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Charlotte Sands reveals her new single, “back to you,” the final preview of her sophomore album, Satellite, out March 6. “back to you” follows recent singles “Afterlife,” “neckdeep,” “HUSH,” and “one eye open,” all of which appear on the upcoming album.   On “back to you,” Charlotte strikes a powerful balance between angsty intensity and poetic vulnerability. The song begins […]

Seattle’s The Darts return with “Apocalypse,” the second advance single from their upcoming LP Halloween Love Songs, arriving March 3. Where “Midnight Creep” danced in B-movie shadows, “Apocalypse” blows the door off the darker half of the album, leaning into caveman rhythms, volcanic fuzz, and the kind of apocalyptic joy that makes destruction sound like […]

New York-based rock label Equal Vision Records and Endpoint are excited to announce the Friday, February 27 release of After Taste (Deluxe Edition), a fully remixed and remastered, 18-track expanded version of the influential Louisville, KY hardcore band’s 1993 album. When it was first released, After Taste was widely considered a “departure” for Endpoint. It’s slower, they said. It’s more melodic and less political. Back then, […]

Poison Ruin’s Hymns from the Hills ambitiously rewrites the very rules of what punk is capable of achieving, pushing their sound into expansive new terrains without sacrificing an ounce of the bleak symbolism and uncompromising aggression that first established them as an urgent new voice in the world of extreme music. The Philadelphia punks have expanded their […]

Breakout four-piece Sleep Theory — vocalist Cullen Moore, guitarist Daniel Pruitt, bassist Paolo Vergara, and drummer Ben Pruitt — had a meteoric 2025. They released their debut album, Afterglow, produced by David Cowell and mixed by Zakk Cervini (Bring Me The Horizon, Bad Omens, Architects), last spring. The album, described by Revolver as an “exciting mix of metalcore, pop and R&B,” is their first full-length for Epitaph Records and has accumulated over 515 million global streams […]

British punks Grade 2 wrestle with a whirlwind coming-of-age on their rollercoaster fourth album Talk About It, set for release on April 3rd via Hellcat Records. Frontman Sid Ryan, guitarist Jack Chatfield, and drummer Jacob Hull bring over a decade of experience to the table, crafting an album that’s both a reflection of their personal […]

Seattle-based darkwave band Jupe Jupe is excited to release their new single “Down With The Setting Sun” and its accompanying band-created music video. The track is the latest single to be released from the band’s album King Of Sorrows on No-Count Records on February 27 (pre-order). “Down With The Setting Sun” marks the fourth single from King Of Sorrows, delivering an aggressive take on a […]

Emo punk/hardcore outfit SHORELINErecently announced their new album, Is This The Low Point Or The Moment After? is due for release on 13th March 2026 on Pure Noise Records and now they release single ‘Youthfully Naive’ as they start their UK tour with label mates Arm’s Length, Koyo and Ben Quad.  ‘Youthfully Naive’ is about seeing someone you look […]

Praying Mantis have a four CD box set of archival live recordings due to be released on 26th April 2026. Titled as The Official Bootleg Box Set Vol 1 – Live in Japan, it contains two performances from Nagoya. Two CDs made up a show from 1993 and the other two discs from 1998. It’s […]

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Erik Klinga – Hundred Tongues (Self Release) DL available here January 23 2026 Swedish composer Erik Klinga creates an inspiring and regenerative ambient album, full of subtle contrasts and tough melancholy. The Flemish master painter Peter Paul Rubens often used expanses of dun colours or light greys to highlight the suspense happening elsewhere in his […]

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