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FOCUS // YOWIE GETS REAL ABOUT MICROFICHE, MAGIC EYE PAINTINGS, AND DISDAIN FOR DOMINANT SONGWRITING TROPES TO CELEBRATE SYNCHROMYSTICISM‘S LONG AWAITED TAPE RELEASE

Michael Whiteside·November 18, 2022

Since their inception, Yowie have ruled a boundless field of quantum irreverence for all things conventional. They kicked...

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FOCUS // EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT EVERYTHING LEFT UNSAID AND THE REMASTER OF WE ARE ALL SO INSIGNIFICANT

Michael Whiteside·November 4, 2022

When it comes to guns blazing, hard-to-believe-they’re-real guitar players, Nelson Brooks has been damn near the top of...

DARK AND HEAVY FOCUS RELEASE-O-METER

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FOCUS // RELAPSE INTO SILENCE: GETTING TO KNOW THE MANTRA DISCORD

Michael Whiteside·October 18, 2022

Southern California is known for a great many things. Beautiful weather, a host of tourist hotspots, and lately…...

DARK AND HEAVY FOCUS LIGHT AND NOODLY RELEASE-O-METER

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FOCUS // ANTIDOTES FOR NOSTALGIA: LOOKING BACK AT FOALS

Collin Smith·September 20, 2022

Lately I’ve been listening to Life Is Yours, the latest album by the UK rock act Foals. It’s...

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FOCUS // INTO THE COUCH: NICK REINHART TALKS DISHEVELED CUSS, HABITUAL HARDCORE, PEDAL PREFERENCES, AND JAMMING WITH JIMMY CHAMBERLIN

Michael Whiteside·September 9, 2022

When somebody finally works up the gall to bring up math rock in a conversation, you can be...

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FOCUS // PEOPLE FOOD DELIVER THE GOODS WHEN IT COMES TO TASTEFULLY HEATED HONKERS AND FRIENDSHIP FUELED MATH ROCK

Michael Whiteside·September 6, 2022

We’ve said it before, we’ll surely say it again – as far as music publications go, we are...

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FOCUS // 36 HOURS FOR 30 MINUTES: AN ARCTANGENT TOUR DIARY FROM SEIMS

Simeon Bartholomew·August 31, 2022

SEIMS initially received our invitation to play the ATG main stage in 2020. We’d just come off the...

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FOCUS // CLOSURE IN MOSCOW ONCE AGAIN DRIVE US TO THE BRINK OF MANIA AFTER TEASING NEW MATERIAL

Michael Whiteside·August 29, 2022

To be honest, at least as of press time, we’ve heard less than thirty seconds of whatever it...

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FOCUS // SUNFLO’ER GIVE US THE BEAT ON RECORDING WITH URIAN HACKNEY, PERFECTING THEIR SOUND, AND THE DENSITY OF NEW YORK MATHCORE

Michael Whiteside·August 25, 2022

Potsdam’s punky mathcore stalwarts Sunflo’er release all these darlings and now me on Dark Trail Records any minute...

DARK AND HEAVY FOCUS RELEASE-O-METER

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FOCUS // STAYING HUMBLE: ANDO SAN ON HIS LATEST EP, PRODUCTION VS GUITAR, AND THE RAPPER THAT INSPIRED HIM TO TAKE HIS CRAFT TO THE NEXT LEVEL

Michael Whiteside·August 12, 2022

It’s a breezy, heated morning over here in the desert, yet somehow it seems like a truly perfect...

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FOCUS // CHRIS CAROTHERS ON THE PERFECTLY TIMED RENAISSANCE OF ATIVIN AND THE STORY BEHIND AUSTERE

FOCUS // KEVIN HUFNAGEL TALKS DYSRHYTHMIA, GORGUTS, AND HIS UPCOMING TAPE COLLABORATION WITH COUP SUR COUP

FOCUS // LIGHT UNDER CLOSED DOORS: NICK DIENER OF ONEDER EFFECTS ON LIFE AFTER THE SWELLERS, STARTING HIS OWN GUITAR COMPANY, AND FINDING THE ULTIMATE TONE

RELEASE-O-METER

NEW MUSIC // TRUST FUND OZU DECIMATES ALL TRACES OF NON-BELIEVERS WITH THE BRILLIANT FAYE DOUBT

NEW MUSIC // JACK BINKERD STEELS THE SHOW WITH SOULFUL, TWANG-HEAVY MIDWEST VIBES ON LATEST EP

NEW MUSIC // THE PIECES OF SHIT! PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS FOR GUCCI BABY WAVE DELUXE JOHN CENA ULTRA IMPACT EDITION TO STUNNING, STAR-STUDDED RESULTS

REGULARS

Stage Kids – Recess (2020)

Standards – Fruit Island (2020)

Delta Sleep – Younger Years (2019)

EXCLUSIVES

EXCLUSIVE // BE NOTHING DOES SOMETHING WITH THEIR DELICIOUSLY SAUCY DEBUT, BE ALL THE NOTHING YOU CAN BE

EXCLUSIVE // MAEBE DEFINITELY SHRED SOME TASTY POST-ROCKS IN NEW VIDEO FOR “HARSH REALM”

EXCLUSIVE // NECKBOLT GIVE US ECSTATIC, BREATHLESS DAYMARES WITH NEW MUSIC VIDEO

VIDEO

NEW MUSIC // CINEMA DELIVERS A COLLAGE OF ILLUSTRATED MADNESS WITH VIDEO FOR “POSE VS. TALENT”

NOT ANOTHER FECKING GEAR REVIEW: MAYBE THE ONEDER EFFECTS ONEDERWALL IS GOING TO BE THE ONE TO SAVE FUZZ AFTER ALL

EXCLUSIVE // MAEBE DEFINITELY SHRED SOME TASTY POST-ROCKS IN NEW VIDEO FOR “HARSH REALM”

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NOT ANOTHER FECKING GEAR REVIEW: MAYBE THE ONEDER EFFECTS ONEDERWALL IS GOING TO BE THE ONE TO SAVE FUZZ AFTER ALL

FOCUS // LIGHT UNDER CLOSED DOORS: NICK DIENER OF ONEDER EFFECTS ON LIFE AFTER THE SWELLERS, STARTING HIS OWN GUITAR COMPANY, AND FINDING THE ULTIMATE TONE

FOCUS // THE STRANGE YET PRACTICAL WORLD OF MATH ROCK DESERT ISLAND PEDALS VOL. 1

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FOCUS // YOWIE GETS REAL ABOUT MICROFICHE, MAGIC EYE PAINTINGS, AND DISDAIN FOR DOMINANT SONGWRITING TROPES TO CELEBRATE SYNCHROMYSTICISM‘S LONG AWAITED TAPE RELEASE

FOCUS // EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT EVERYTHING LEFT UNSAID AND THE REMASTER OF WE ARE ALL SO INSIGNIFICANT

FOCUS // RELAPSE INTO SILENCE: GETTING TO KNOW THE MANTRA DISCORD

FOCUS // ANTIDOTES FOR NOSTALGIA: LOOKING BACK AT FOALS

FOCUS // INTO THE COUCH: NICK REINHART TALKS DISHEVELED CUSS, HABITUAL HARDCORE, PEDAL PREFERENCES, AND JAMMING WITH JIMMY CHAMBERLIN

FOCUS // PEOPLE FOOD DELIVER THE GOODS WHEN IT COMES TO TASTEFULLY HEATED HONKERS AND FRIENDSHIP FUELED MATH ROCK

FOCUS // 36 HOURS FOR 30 MINUTES: AN ARCTANGENT TOUR DIARY FROM SEIMS

FOCUS // CLOSURE IN MOSCOW ONCE AGAIN DRIVE US TO THE BRINK OF MANIA AFTER TEASING NEW MATERIAL

FOCUS // SUNFLO’ER GIVE US THE BEAT ON RECORDING WITH URIAN HACKNEY, PERFECTING THEIR SOUND, AND THE DENSITY OF NEW YORK MATHCORE

FOCUS // STAYING HUMBLE: ANDO SAN ON HIS LATEST EP, PRODUCTION VS GUITAR, AND THE RAPPER THAT INSPIRED HIM TO TAKE HIS CRAFT TO THE NEXT LEVEL

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