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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cannabis has always been in a gray area historically and socially. While often associated with underground culture (from music to certain neighborhoods), it’s always been provocative because of it’s ...

PPR PPL are a new Boston project from Peter W. Bartash, working here under the P. Willem name after thirty years as a drummer. Their music pulls alternative rock through post-hardcore, shoegaze and ...

Russian Circles passed twenty years as a band in typically unspectacular fashion. They were halfway through the touring cycle for “Gnosis“, their eighth album, and spent 2024 playing Australia, South ...

Every Wednesday, Frayed Ends BC would spend three or four hours pulling apart whatever had landed in the band WhatsApp that week. Guitarist Steve Martin was sending rough demos from home, vocalist ...

There is a certain kind of emo and melodic indie rock that has always got to me very quickly. It has enough edge in the guitars to keep things interesting, but it never treats emotion as something ...

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 ...