smallways. snap into “WHAT I’M DOIN’”, their heaviest track and a Dirk Kruithof cover that maps the whole pyramid

Gol Olímpico share “respirar en cuadro,” a shoegaze panic-attack song built around box breathing and the songwriter who first showed them emo in Spanish

Tæl drops fifteen filthy tracks of bass-and-drums powerviolence from Oslo

Only Dark Shit – honeybee drops great new album, listen!

Premiere: CAR VS. DRIVER’s “Without A Day” from “Deja Grateful” reissue, 30 years out of print

TOJO YAMAMOTO shares psych noise cover of “Man on the Moon”, discuss the Memphis wrestling lineage

Japanese post rock maestros MONO discuss ‘Snowdrop’, recording without Steve Albini, and the language of flowers

Frenzy industrial punks THE FAMILY MEN talk “Co/de/termination,” the Gothenburg scene, and more

NICOTA’s “Kapitola IV” explores loss and injustice on “Kapitola IV”

FEEL FREE debut their first demo and tie Orange County hardcore back to its San Diego neighbors

Spokane / Portland d-beat hardcore punk POISE premiere “Ill Anguish”, walk through the politics behind “Iron Foot”

JACKSON FIG turn a Wall Street phrase into an alt rock shoegaze record about dead-end jobs on “No One Knows the Bottom”

BARATRO answer the rise of fascism and the genocide in Gaza on “No Comply”

CZARNY LAS (BLACK FOREST) returns after a decade with “Jak się masz?”, a debut built from spoken word, bleak rap, downtempo, and Polish alternative ghosts

MILK ST. return with “Just So”, a slacker indie cut Jonah Wakefield built around a chorus mocking his own sadness

Italian gentle shoegaze rockers NO PINE MALL on writing “Impostor Syndrome” from “Adrift”

Heavy shoegazers SILK on making ‘Auralux’ under the shadow of mortality, a Refused line , and why the demos won

CAVEIRAS turn ’60s Brazilian outlaw cinema, Quimbanda, and dub into “baile punk”

Portland’s psych rockers VERADAS pull from grunge, krautrock and the Everly Brothers on “Hud Money”

Power pop emo rockers POWER BURKAS turn fricandó, CrossFit, and a torn-down market into their fourth album “Amb la fi al davant”