Rites of Spring Fest reopens the “real emo” question, returns to Munich for two days with Raein, Weatherday, and a FLINTA-led newcomer wave

Screamo splits tradition continues on the newest offering from Finland’s LETTERBOMBS and Göteborg’s ÅTERSTOD

Emotive post hardcore band MUROSUONO ditch the FOMO on “Chimera,” great new album co-released by five labels

Buenos Aires industrialized post-punk rockers SUPERCORE gets “Erased”

JARDIN ANIMAL walk through Midwest emo earworm “Pudo Ser Peor,” building a scene from Managua outward, and finding emo friends across Latin America

HOMEGROUND leave hardcore behind, walk through “Splendid”, a record about grief, plagiarised love and small-town life

Tour Diary: on the road with blackened metalcore beast ANCST and neocrust d-beat act MÄRNØ

Alt rockers BY MILLION WIRES return after fourteen years with new EP “Not Over”

NJ pop-punk trio GET THE NET set “Til House Lights” for June and share “Tijuana” video

INCENDIARY DEVICE dissect “New York City” track by track — NYHC love letter, skateboarding, and a Mike Tyson quote

Chicago’s KALI MASI return with “Searching For A Sunbeam” and a coast-to-coast US tour

Adelaide trio TOWNHOUSE drop “Avenger Level Threat” video, off a bedroom-recorded EP and a tight DIY scene

MUSIC IS THE ENEMY break their eight-year silence – Albuquerque hardcore band drops new EP “Sansational”

Post metallers JUNON, Charles Masset, and Thomas Ayrinhac break down the making of the amazing cinematic video for “The Chaser”

Richmond’s doom stoners MT. FOREVER populate debut LP with cursed characters and a fictional Southern town

Paris shoegaze quartet MIDSCALE follow “Movements” with two-part EP “Dread, This Could Save You”

Liverpool’s CUT SHORT tie post-relationship grief to the city’s industrial decline on new single “Unrequited”

Portland Is the New Portland: a short film about a guy who invented 17 fake bands and a fake label

SPARTA share “Everything You Say” from sixth album “Cut A Silhouette”

THE NUCLEAR NUNS on Athens punk, the loss of free spaces, and self-pressing their debut LP “R.O.A.C.H.”