1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (348+ words) Pressed In Asia #18: Iman’s League New Noise Magazine Pressed In Asia #18: Iman’s League 90s-style melodic punk doesn’t generate the same hype it once did. Fat Wreck Chords built that sound. The broader California punk scene carried it. Across Southeast Asia…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (209+ words) Justice Petersen is a rock music journalist, freelance writer, and music PR representative. Justice writes reviews, news pieces, and interviews for Melodic Magazine and Ghost Cult Magazine, and her work has been featured in Illinois Entertainer, Chicago Reader, Sunstroke Magazine,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (203+ words) Medieval aesthetics are having a fairly enormous comeback at the moment, be it from “sword and sorcery” doom metal acts like Castle Rat, to the explosion of attendees at Renaissance Faires across the world, or the sheer volume of chainmail…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (137+ words) Issue 83 Cover Reveal: Swervedriver New Noise Magazine Issue 83 Cover Reveal: Swervedriver Our Issue #83 Flexi Edition cover features legendary shoegaze band Swervedriver, who are celebrating the 35th anniversary of their debut album, Raise, and we’re celebrating that milestone with our cover story!...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1744+ words) “I definitely had a clear vision of marrying the evolution of our sound directly to its roots,” he says. Part of the idea was to bring listeners who preferred the band’s earlier style back into the fold. Then came the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (191+ words) Experimental rock duo Lammping announce that their new LP, So What, What?, arrives November 6 on We Are Busy Bodies. News of the forthcoming album arrives alongside the album’s new single, “Criminal Against Nature,” which is available to stream now. Speaking…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (324+ words) Pressed In Asia #9: The Jansen New Noise Magazine Pressed In Asia #9: The Jansen If Indonesian youth feelings and romance could take the shape of one band, The Jansen would be that band right now. It’s not an exaggeration to say…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (289+ words) Bandung, Indonesia’s underground scene is loud, crowded, and allergic to staying in one lane — which is exactly why Bananach feels like a relief. They’re not chasing a sound everyone else is already playing. This is a fuzzed-out, post-punk noise rock…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (193+ words) On October 20, J-Card Press releases The Clientele, a biography by Jonnie Johnstone about the evocative British band that includes myriad exclusive quotes, images, and anecdotes. Preorder it here. This is the story of perhaps the greatest British pop group of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1762+ words) The Ringing Bell by Fuming Mouth captures the Massachusetts band at their most focused, direct, and unmistakably themselves. The album arrived on July 17 via Triple B Records and favors speed, impact, and economy over needless ornamentation. Yet its stripped-down attack…...