EXEK
EXEK For just over a decade, EXEK has very quietly become one of the most hypnotic bands on the planet, mutating and growing from record to record, gradually opening themselves up without ever losing that strange, inscrutable, altogether essential quality that’s made them so great—so EXEK-y. On 27 February, the Melbourne post-punk outfit—vocalist and chief […]
My New Band Believe
MY NEW BAND BELIEVE My New Band Believe, led by Cameron Picton, bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, with whom he practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex storytelling through thrilling passages of controlled chaos. The moniker serves as an open invitation, a subtle nod to listeners willing to meet the music […]
Niko Rubio
NIKO RUBIO Akin to the ebb and flow of a Venice Beach wave at sunset, Niko Rubio wades through styles, vibes, and emotions. As if rising out of the ocean, her swell of inspiration crests by absorbing everything from traditional Mexican Ranchera music to nineties alternative rock and 21st century indie pop, reaching shore, and […]
MESS
MESS Pure MESS, fuss & impact!. Banda mexicana de punk oi! – / , Mexican punk oi! band with UK 82 sounds. VAXINE New York, New York. THE STRESS American Punk n Oi! From Long Island NY. THE SLADS The Slads punk band from Philadelphia.
Flipper
FLIPPER WITH GUEST VOCALIST MATT KORVETTE of PISSED JEANS! They came, they saw, and they conquered — sort of. Never topping the charts, nor possessing a huge following, San Francisco’s Flipper, even in the ’90s alt-rock sweepstakes, would still be considered a fringe act. But, in 1982, they were the toast of rock critics across […]
Black Eyes
BLACK EYES In the fall of 2025, more than 20 years after recording their avant-punk swan song Cough, Black Eyes returned to Dischord with Hostile Design. The album’s six all-new songs were written directly in the wake of their April 2023 reunion shows and see the quintet pushing deeper into the ominous dubscapes and feral […]
Jena Malone
JENA MALONE Jena Malone is a multi-hyphenated artist whose work spans acting, music, photography, poetry, and theatre. Malone launched her experimental musical project, Jena Malone and Her Bloodstains, opening for Deerhunter in 2008 and releasing a single through Social Registry. She is also part of The Shoe with Lem Jay Ignacio, releasing 2014 album I’m […]
Prewn
PREWN If Izzy Hagerup’s new album, System, feels immediately uncompromising it’s because it was never really designed for public consumption. Released under her Prewn moniker, Hagerup describes the album as a “private journal made public.” The arresting nine songs on System chronicle a deeply personal journey through the darkness of depression, but one that’s always […]
Greg Mendez
GREG MENDEZ Greg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter – he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his new album and debut LP for Dead Oceans, we’re guided by a wry but forgiving narrator, an underdog who has learned to balance […]
Twisted Teens
TWISTED TEENS Twisted Teens is a band from New Orleans. Most musicians make you choose between rock and roll; Twisted Teens would never do that. Their political platform is religious psychosis; their music opens a door to a new universe by shutting all other doors to all other possible universes. Fans of Raw Power-era Stooges, […]