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puzzlehead’s new shoegaze jams beyond big sniff’s shadow
Katayoon Yousefbigloo talks writing with a band, her adversarial relationship with solo performance, and the new EP’s “no guitar solos” rule. “I’m really maturing.”
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bullseye won’t do the same thing twice
The NYC band has a rotating lineup, songs that don’t sound the same way from show to show, and a great new 12" on ever/never. And a Wiki-style members timeline chart.
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credit card are the hardest band in detroit to photograph
The industrial synth punks behind the new record Devil’s Night / Dead Internet wield strobe lights, a trash can, and lots of fog (your camera’s autofocus be damned).
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today’s milk are still looking for tomorrow’s sound
The Kalamazoo band features sicko artist Jeff Mahannah on drums. After a Detroit show, they discussed EP mode, funky drumming, and never becoming road dogs.
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age of peace’s idyllic and necessary gear shift
Angie Willcutt and Micah Wu made waves with their vibrant and playful punk outfit Artificial Go. The Cincinnati duo find folk sanctuary as Age of Peace.
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choncy on cincinnati cuisine, brainrot, and kitchen sink punk
The band discusses their new album Trademark, collaborating remotely, writing songs about jobs, and embracing the chaos of punk without subgenre.
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minneapolis punks voted to unionize a merch warehouse. sony music plans to shut it down.
Kings Road employs punk artists and produces merch for some of the world’s biggest punk bands. The morning of the union’s first day of bargaining, owners Sony Music revealed plans to shutter the workplace. The union intends to keep fighting.
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shop talk’s secret? they don’t have anything to prove.
The Brooklyn garage punks sit down at a local bar to discuss slugs, Ramones, and approaching the band without ego.
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media puzzle trot new land beyond the big log
Tom Peter on New Racehorse, horns in punk, their outstanding live show, and embracing the discomfort of new horizons beyond Lismore.
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shaved ape on the punk mentors who changed his life
In a dining room lined with decades of punk ephemera, Vince Klopfenstein shares stories about chance encounters and the beauty of hardcore.
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byproxy did not plan to sound like this, and it rules
The brand new Portland band jammed together and quickly recorded one of the best punk demos of the year. They are not the death rock band they initially envisioned.
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a picnic with portland punk lifers noxeema
Punk veterans Erin, Cissie, Katie, and Marat on making punk about the human body, returning with their first 7" since 2019, and the eternal balance between work and art.