Screamo act YOUTH NOVEL return with “Made in Heaven,” reflecting on ketamine therapy and depression

Alternative shoegaze rockers FLYING NUNS reissue their 1992 demo and prepare a new EP after 18 years of silence

Spook Records nears 20 years of DIY hardcore, still riding for the CD format

HAYWIRE roll through the U.S. with “Summer Nights” video premier and shows booked in Alaska and Hawaii

GLIMMER return with “Sorrow Again,” a fuzz-soaked, melancholic summer single ahead of their debut LP

Alt hardcore band HIGHER POWER drop their third album “There’s Love In This World If You Want It” with a video for “All The Rage”

Wrestling with trance, memory, and gentrification: YEAR OF NO LIGHT revisit “Les Maîtres Fous”

“I Won’t a Friend” by emo act PENNWOOD RD. is about growing up without a map and trying to hold onto something real

Algorithmic noise and fallow space: MUNICIPAL SENTIMENT’s “C builds on code, texture, and Buffalo’s experimental undercurrent

FUCK MONEY’s self-titled debut is not what you’ll hear live — and that’s exactly the point

KING YOSEF announces “Spire of Fear” with haunting video for “Molting Fear” shot inside an abandoned nuclear plant

Hardcore goes psychedelic in “Ugly Boys” from Berlin hardcore band R.O.S.A.

ADIÓS COMETA premieres the raw and abrasive video for new single “Candelaria”

THE ERADICATOR returns with “My Lucky Stink” a blast from Florida’s newest squash punk lineup

Blackened hardcore band ERODE share “Coiled”, new album coming up DAZE

Rock’n’roll infused hardcore punks WALK THE PLANK return to Germany for the first time since 2018 with a new bassist and plans for fresh recordings

Pop punk act RINGPOP! hit Warped Tour DC with their biggest crowd yet and left the stage buzzing

FATES MESSENGER declares “Eternal War” with Tim Williams of Vision of Disorder as they prepare full EP

This album hit me mid-ride and nearly made me crash — OBSTRUKTION’s “The End Takes Form” channels pure, controlled chaos

LEFOKOLODI’s debut EP is a loud, messy, honest thank-you letter to their South African scene and their heroes