Born From Pain have a new EP planned for their thirtieth year, but vocalist Rob Franssen has also been spending a lot of time ...

London's ACHERS have ended up in the catalogue of No Idea Records, twenty-five years after vocalist and guitarist Pat Smiley ...

Firestone Elementary disappeared for two decades and came back because teenagers started finding them. The five friends from ...

As an independent magazine IDIOTEQ supports DIY ethics and local artists of all kinds. With no-ads policy and mission to give independent artists space they deserve, IDIOTEQ is a place to get inspired ...

AJJ, the band formerly known by the self denounced name Andrew Jackson Jihad, helped ground me during trials and tribulations of my life, namely twice. AJJ has a career spanning decades from their ...

My Death Diary have a strange kind of archive. Old gig photos survived (see loads of them below). Flyers and posters survived. Facebook still holds years of visual scraps, and the band still have a ...

When Serotonin drummer Jim Valosik sits behind his kit now, one cymbal is there because his wrist no longer bends far enough to reach the way it did when he was 19. He added a third crash simply so he ...

Michael Coates had barely touched a guitar in more than a decade when one of his old ones ended up hanging on the wall of his office. At some point he started taking it down and playing again, without ...

Edmonton is small and isolated enough that False Body guitarist Lee Zacharko has already watched its hardcore scene thin out before. He remembers periods when the number of local bands and people ...

Hindsight gives him plenty of decisions he could warn the teenage version of Harlott against. He has no interest in removing them from the band’s history. The mistakes brought their own lessons, and ...

Wellness built their debut around an almost unreasonable amount of work for a record that lasts 16 minutes. Their first full-band practice happened in June 2025. Months of demos, experiments and ...

New Jersey hardcore band If I Die are returning after 20 years for a single reunion show on September 19 at Locals Bar in Manalapan. The set is dedicated to their drummer Jesse Burke, who died towards ...