NEW MUSIC // MELT-BANANA IS SO BACK WITH THEIR ABSOLUTELY EXPLOSIVE NEW ALBUM 3+5
The last couple of years have seen an uptick in Melt-Banana sightings by way of live shows and...
Michael Whiteside
NEW MUSIC // ILYA POPENKO DIGS DEEP INTO THE COLLECTIVE PSYCHE WITH VIDEO FOR “ZOMBIE CV”
It’s been a bit too long since we heard from Ilya Popenko’s collective Mad Meg, but Popenko is...
GAMES // TEN MOMENTS FROM GAMESCOM 2024 THAT HAD US LEGITIMATELY EXCITED, PART ONE
Gamescom 2024 has been a pretty interesting run, and it’s not over yet – that being said there...
THE TUESDAY MUSIC DUMP // REALITY HITS US HARD WITH RELEASES FROM YOMI SHIP, GEORDIE GREEP, TOE, A.M. OVERCAST AND DOZENS MORE
Talk about a Tuesday Music DUMP… sigh… the following blurb may be a little obscure for those not...
NEW MUSIC // BUMPY SOUP MAKE A CASE FOR SOUTHWEST EMO ON THE BUMPY ALBUM
For years, no, decades now, Midwest Emo has remained a constantly referenced and objectified sound in math rock....
EXCLUSIVE // CATHOLICS CELEBRATE THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY WITH A NEW SINGLE AND A HOST OF FANTASTIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
We’re not actually too familiar with the correlations that may or may not exist between regional math rock...
FOCUS // GETTING HELP: RYAN NEIGHBORS AND BIM DITSON ON HOW DESTRUCTION, PRESENTISM, ANARCHISM, MEDITATION, AND MORE INFLUENCED COURAGE, THEIR UPCOMING EP
Back when we lived in Oregon and had a lot going on musically, we’d try to challenge ourselves...
NEW MUSIC // AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR CONTINUE TO ASCEND WITH MEGAFAUNA
If there’s been a band in or around our dear old math rock that’s ever seen a legitimate...
NEW MUSIC // LITE BASSIST JUN IZAWA MAKES FUTURISTIC, IDM-FLAVORED MATH ROCK FOR CITIZENS OF CYBERTRON WITH MILESTONE
Fans of LITE don’t need us to tell them – Jun Izawa’s percussive, heavily stylized bass lines have...
FOCUS // BLACK MIDI SAYS GOODNIGHT AND GOOD LUCK AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF MARVELOUS MADNESS
Talk about dog shit park – it’s been a weird week for math rock, and to cap it...