It’s the end of January, and Longboat Hall is silent. The Toronto basement venue is echoey and enveloping as comedian Nick Thune unassumingly emerges from the…
Hard Noise
Song Premiere + Q&A: Rotting Out Look Trauma in the Face on Ronin
Hardcore is often birthed by conflict. It comes from a world of pain and frustration, and is used as a vessel to release pent-up aggression. L.A.…
Big Cheese on Channeling Motorhead and Sick of it All, Growing up UKHC
UK’s Big Cheese was formed in the middle ’10s out of the same scene that brought to light bands like Violent Reaction, Chubby and the Gang,…
What the Code Orange Livestream Means for Music During a Pandemic
“In Fear of the End” is Just the Beginning “This is what happens when the rat fucks who run this world who don’t care about you,…
Sammy Siegler on Kiss, Billy Cobham and the Parallels Between Cro-Mags and Coltrane
Very few artists listen exclusively to aggressive music, so in this recurring series we ask a musician about a band that they like that is outside…
Mundy’s Bay on Their Genre-Defying Debut ‘Lonesome Valley’
It’s difficult to ascribe a genre to Mundy’s Bay. But the more you scratch your head trying to pin them down as shoegaze, or pop, or…
5 Reasons Why Coachella’s Postponement Means Something to Every Music Fan
The past couple weeks have been littered with a flurry of cancellations related to COVID-19 (aka Coronavirus), all of which haven’t been quite as directly shocking…
Mike Watt and Friends Look Back on 25 years of ‘Ball-Hog or Tugboat?’
After Mike Watt played his first final show with fIREHOSE on February 12, 1994 at the Warner Grand Theatre in his beloved San Pedro, California, the…
Album Premiere + Interview: PEARS on Adulting, Improvising, and Finding Their Rhythm
PEARS rose up out of the swamps of New Orleans in 2014 with their self-released debut album Go To Prison. The group caught the attention of…