Sheer Mag have labored to carve out a discernibly singular position within the canon of contemporary rock: toggling with ease between the refined flourishes of a “connoisseur’s band” and the ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting—yet displaying no strict loyalty to either camp—their sound, while oft-referenced, is unmistakably and immediately recognizable as theirs alone.
Polyvinyl Record Co. and Laura Jane Grace are excited to announce Hole In My Head, the Emmy-nominated artist, author, activist and musician’s first offering since 2021’s At War With The Silverfish. Recorded at Native Sound in St. Louis, MO with David Beeman and mixed by Matt Allison (The Lawrence Arms, Rise Against), Hole In My Head is a sonic curio cabinet containing multitudes — a showcase that features warm, ‘50s rock-influenced guitar riffs, saved-for-later lyrics, love letters to new surroundings, and thoughtful reflections on a punk life lived.
The Hives are back. Braggadocious and cocky as ever. Rightfully so, because ‘The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons’ is yet another Hives-record that provides young and aspiring bands with a manual on how to craft the perfect rock n roll album.
Over the summer, we caught up with Aaron Perrino, the driving force behind the criminally underrated The Sheila Divine, the all too short-lived Dear Leader and his most recent project, Aaron and the Lord.
TEARJERKER will no doubt remind you of a heavy mix of 90’s Punk Rock at its best, a little nostalgia and will leave you wanting to hear more. After all it is engrained in the DNA / make up of Sunderland.
What started as a solo project for former The Decline vocalist/bassist Dan Crubb has over the years evolved into a full-fledged band thanks to the addition of Scott Connor (guitar/vocals) and Brenn
Philly-based band Crossed Keys (ft.
Bristol UK’s IDLES have announced today their forthcoming fifth album, TANGK. The 11-track followup to their Grammy-nominated CRAWLER, TANGK was co-produced by Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, The Smile, Beck), the band’s Mark Bowen and Kenny Beats (Denzel Curry, Vince Staples, Benee). In an explosive run of unerringly stirring albums, TANGK—pronounced “tank” with a whiff of the “g” and an onomatopoeic reference to the lashing way the band imagined the guitars sounding that has grown into a sort of sigil for living in love – is this band’s most ambitious and striking record yet.
Mannequin Pussy announce their anticipated new album, I Got Heaven, with a video for “I Don’t Know You.” The album, produced by John Congleton, is due March 1st via Epitaph Records.
Of “I Don’t Know You” Marisa Dabice says, “This is simply a song about having a crush. About the excitement and playful fantasy that can come from meeting someone unexpectedly at a festival, or on the street, or in line at the grocery store. You don’t know when you’ll see them again but the rush of their possibility lingers, making you yearn to know more about them.”
Alkaline Trio walks among us once again. On January 26, 2024, everyone’s favorite tortured triumvirate will return in Grand Guignol style with "Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs", its tenth album and first full length offering of new material to be released in (66)6 years.
