Slapshot played their last gig in Boston on 17 October 2026. For 41 years, Jack “Choke” Kelly had been shouting over fast drums, sick guitar riffs and some of ...

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The day after Trouble Bound’s 25th anniversary show in July 2024, Johnny No-Keys woke up with a fast riff already moving around his head. The previous night had been one of those good ones, full of ...

Six songs of meandering clean guitars, vocals that crack right at the consonants, and choruses where the whole band ends up at the mic. Mock Bishop call themselves emo revival revival on Instagram, ...

Antillectual are spending 2026 marking twenty-five years as a band. After anniversary shows in the Netherlands and Canada, their summer run reached Germany and Austria. Another European stretch will ...

Before the old Magnavox radio ended up on a French Inhaler record, it spent some time in Adam O’Leary’s dining room. He had tracked it down specifically for the band’s recording session, brought it ...

Before this album, the band say songs usually started in pieces — a riff here, a few lyrics there — before one or two people would finish them. The EPs worked differently because each song mostly came ...

The last words an African grey parrot named Alex ever said to his handler were “You be good, I love you.” Decades after his death, those words sit on the front of a post-rock record from London. The ...

I recently attended my fifth Outbreak Festival in Manchester, and it’s hard for me to admit, but it felt different this year. I will preface this article by saying, I have all the love in the world ...

Every weekday morning, Jack Grisham gets on a call with Paul Roessler. Fifteen minutes some days, close to an hour on others. They start with aches and complaints, walk deeper as the call goes, and ...

When Sungrave started writing their debut album, the songs were mostly concerned with what goes on inside a person’s head. Recognising yourself as you get older, trying to escape habits inherited from ...

Keziah “KZ” Staska was at home, surrounded by peace, love and joy, and had no idea how to write another Dreamwell record. “The first song I wrote for the album was ‘Plath,’ so I started writing this ...