Half of the mighty CAVE IN, Adam McGrath & Stephen Brodsky, played an intimate acoustic set to about 75  people, hosted by infamous rock’n’roll brewery Bone Up. While tuning, Stephen informed us that the date that night had a bit more significance than just being the date of this performance, it was also Caleb Scofield‘s birthday – he would have been 45 years old. Artwork by Adam Cutler, MotionlessVisions.com. The duo’s set consisted of new and old CAVE IN songs, some written by Caleb, and a cover of Failure‘s “Magnified,” which may be familiar if you picked up their Creative Ecl ..read more

Post-hardcore outfit ACTOR OBSERVER recently released their new album, Songs For The Newly Reclusive, an emotional, vulnerable, and sincere offering. A powerful album that covers social topics including toxic masculinity and the gentrification of local art and music communities. Though ACTOR OBSERVER was formed in a backwoods barn in the small town of Newfields, New Hampshire, where they recorded their initial four-track demo. The band has performed all throughout their home turf of Boston, Massachusetts,  snowy days in Maine, in fields of rural Connecticut, and intimate establishments in ..read more

Tampa, Florida’s post-hardcore heavyweights UNDERAOTH released their ninth full-length, Voyeurist, via Fearless Records, the follow up to 2018’s Erase Me. Both albums would be the newest material since the bands reunion in 2015, and a departure from their Christian musical approach. UNDERAOTH was formed by a group of high school students in Florida in 1997. The band’s current lineup consists of lead vocalist Spencer Chamberlain, keyboardist Christopher Dudley, lead guitarist Timothy McTague, rhythm guitarist James Smith, bassist Grant Brandell, and drummer/clean vocalist Aaron Gillespie – the ..read more

French post-hardcore/punk band BIRDS IN ROW navigate through melancholic seas to shape the beautifully hook-laden songs on We Already Lost The World. The nine-song sophomore full-length will be released on July 13th from Deathwish Inc. on vinyl and digital formats. BIRDS IN ROW will tour North America in support of it — first with Neurosis and Converge, then on an East Coast run with Portrayal of Guilt. Check out all tour dates below. More recently, BIRDS IN ROW have unveiled a music video for “I Don’t Dance,” a track that blends post-punk, hardcore, and angular rock influences into something ..read more

Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter LESS ART is the alliance of brothers Riley and Ed Breckenridge of Thrice, Ian Miller and Jon Howell of Kowloon Walled City, and Mike Minnick of Curl Up and Die. On Strangled Light, these five veterans bash out their own new version of post-hardcore – “post-hardcore by post-youths” is how they cheekily describe themselves, but this music is dead serious. The musicianship is world-class; the perspective is world-weary; the sound is fresh and urgent and crackling with feeling. Strangled Light‘s nine songs add up to a modern, muscular incarnation ..read more

Formats: Digital | Vinyl The Future of Death, the second album by Primitive Weapons, is now available on Party Smasher Inc., the new label founded by Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan. PRIMITIVE WEAPONS‘ mix of teeth-gnashing aggression and grand, haunting melodies sets the band in line with post-hardcore greats like Refused and Quicksand – guitarist Arthur Shepherd was a member of that scene as a younger man in the ’90s, playing in bands like Mind Over Matter, Errortype:11, World’s Fastest Car (with Quicksand’s Walter Schreifels) and Instruction (with Quicksand’s Tom Capone). Like its ..read more

Formats: CD | Digital | Vinyl After a hiatus from writing and touring, Thrice is back and gearing up to release their ninth album. Fresh out of the studio with Eric Palmquist, the Orange County quartet are pleased to announce To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere will be released on May 27, 2016 via Vagrant Records. Fans can hear a brand new song off the record, entitled “Blood on the Sand,” below. Thrice has been a staple in the alternative/modern-rock world for over fifteen years. A band known for effortlessly and continuously releasing groundbreaking records, their discography has so ..read more

​Long-running indie label Robotic Empire returns with their third Nirvana tribute LP, Doused In Mud, Soaked In Bleach, completing a trifecta of homages to the legendary band’s official studio albums. The Hall of Famer’s debut LP Bleach is covered in full, start to finish, by a diverse range of independent/alternative artists including Basement, Beach Slang, Big Hush, Circa Survive, Daughters, Defeater, The Fall of Troy, Mean Jeans, Rob Crow’s Gloomy Place, The Saddest Landscape, This Will Destroy You, Thou and Young Widows. Appropriately reflecting Nirvana‘s rawest studio album alongside ..read more