Following our lists on ’90s metalcore and 2000s post-hardcore, this edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre’ looks at 15 classic albums from metalcore’s most popular era. Check out five songs we recommend by newer metalcore bands after the list.… Read More
Fléau is a new Oi!/street punk band from France, and they’re gearing up to release their self-titled debut EP on March 19 via Red Scare, Pressure (France) and Contra Records (Germany) (pre-order). To give you an idea of what to… Read More
Entombed (and Entombed A.D.) frontman Lars-Göran “L-G” Petrov sadly passed away on Sunday (3/7), after a battle with cancer. He was 49. Entombed AD issued a statement, which reads: We are devastated to announce that our beloved friend Lars-Göran Petrov… Read More
So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. In… Read More
The late Clash frontman Joe Strummer is getting new solo best of, Assembly, on March 26 via Dark Horse Records that collects his work with The Mescaleros and more. One of the rarities included on the album is a never-before-released… Read More
The current wave of death metal-infused hardcore continues to grow, and here’s yet another great example of it. Florida band Human (named after the classic album by fellow Florida band Death?) are putting out their debut EP Delicacies of Extinction… Read More
John Lennon‘s 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is getting a super deluxe 50th anniversary box set on April 16 via Capitol/UMe. The eight-disc The Ultimate Collection (6 CDs, 2 Blu-rays) includes a new mixes of the album from Paul… Read More
Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy have been releasing collaborative covers since October and we had a feeling they’ve get to John Prine eventually, and here we are. This week’s third collaborator, Sir Richard Bishop, picked “She is My Everything”… Read More
UPDATE: It’s a huge box set. The Mars Volta have been broken up since 2013, but Cedric Bixler-Zavala has previously hinted at the possibility of a reunion, and in 2020, guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López released The Clouds Hill Tapes, a triple-LP… Read More
Florida emo band Glazed‘s last EP 1999 is named after the year that produced such emo/pop punk classics as The Get Up Kids’ Something To Write Home About and Saves The Day’s Through Being Cool, and their followup single “Disheveled”… Read More