You feel it before you hear it. And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. A low, persistent noise throbbing in the background. Scientists say it registers between 30 and 40 hertz. It’s been heard in Ipswich, Massachusetts; Auckland, New Zealand; and Windsor, Ontario. It has haunted the population of Taos, New Mexico, for decades. It’s been linked to suicides in the UK. Not everyone can hear it. No one knows where it’s coming from. They call it The Hum.
Bitter Branches is what you get when you put Deadguy’s Tim Singer and Paint It Black/Kid Dynamite/Lifetime’s Dan Yemin together in a room with members of Walleye, Cavalry and Lighten Up!.
Following up on last year’s Ready To Roll, Teenage Bottlerocket return with The Invisible Man EP, a short, four-song collection pulled from the same recording sessions.
Last year Chicago’s Time Thieves released two EPs, Come Home and If You Survive.
Twelve years on from starting out as teenagers on the Isle of Wight, Grade 2 are no longer the scrappy kids borrowing riffs from their heroes.
After 15 years of silence, Chicago punk lifers The Arrivals are back. Louder, sharper, and seemingly untouched by time.
Legendary and notoriously volatile, DWARVES return with a new full-length, JENKEM, arriving June 5 via Greedy Records (Distributed by MVD). Decades into a career that has cut across punk, hardcore, and heavy music, the band remains a fixture of underground culture — as influential as they are unpredictable, and long past the point of needing introduction.
French melodic skate punk outfit The Dead Krazukies are back with CIPHER, their fourth full-length album, a fierce and emotionally charged release that pushes their sound further than ever before. Blending melodic punk with metal intensity, the record moves between raw rage and introspective depth. Mixed by Christian Carvin and mastered by Jason Livermore, CIPHER is shaping up to be the band’s most powerful work to date.
Following their packed-out first EU and UK headline tour last month, Dead Pioneers, the Indigenous fronted band from Denver, are now preparing to unleash their third album ‘Wagon Burner’, set for release June 26th via Hassle Records.
