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FOCUS // THE PREQUEL: OUR TOP TEN RECORDS OF 2023 AND/OR AN ODE TO PHYSICAL FORMAT

Michael Whiteside·December 31, 2023

Wait, top… ten? Gotcha! Don’t worry, this isn’t the impending Top 50 Math Rock Releases of 2023. That...

EDITORS' PICKS FOCUS

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FOCUS // DON’T FALL IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF, OR DO: A CLIP FROM OUR RECENT CONVERSATION WITH JUSTIN PEARSON ON THE DOCUMENTARY THAT COVERS HIS CHILDHOOD, THE LOCUST, THREE ONE G, AND A HELL OF A LOT MORE

Michael Whiteside·December 2, 2023

Today, the soundtrack for Don’t Fall in Love With Yourself comes out, featuring tracks various highlights from Justin...

FOCUS VIDEO

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FOCUS // NATIVE AUDIO’S MIKE TROMBLEY ON REVERSE ENGINEERING, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE POWER OF PRESERVING THE BLACKFEET LANGUAGE THROUGH EFFECTS PEDALS

Michael Whiteside·December 1, 2023

If you’ve been paying any attention at all this November, you’ll have noticed that we held our very...

FOCUS Gear

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FOCUS // FORGET THE TURKEY: EVERY MOTHERFUCKER IS YOUR BROTHER IS A YEAR OLD, SO WE TALKED WITH OORT SMOG’S PATRICK SHIROISHI AND MARK KIMBRELL TO CELEBRATE

Michael Whiteside·November 23, 2023

Just over a year ago, a title might have caught your eye in the hailstorm of holiday releases...

FOCUS VIDEO

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FOCUS // REAL HOT GIRL SHIT: FAYE FADEM ON THE ORIGINS OF TRUST FUND OZU, HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER DAW, AND THE KICKSTARTER BEHIND ONE OF 2023’S MOST IMPRESSIVE RECORDS

Michael Whiteside·November 19, 2023

It feels like yesterday, but it’s actually been nearly two years since Trust Fund Ozu released her unintentionally...

FOCUS VIDEO

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FOCUS // THE REDNECK MANIFESTO ARE BRAZIL 20 YEARS ON

NIKK HUNTER·October 6, 2023

As The Redneck Manifesto celebrates the 20-year anniversary of its breakthrough full-length 'I Am Brazil', we reflect on the steady rise of these important math rock stalwarts.

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

Michael Whiteside·July 14, 2023

You hear it all the time that, like so many things in life, life itself is a cycle...

BACK TO THOSE GOLD SOUNDZ FOCUS ORCHESTRAL AND AVANT GARDE RELEASE-O-METER

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

Michael Whiteside·June 30, 2023

Sifting through the constant, unending fields of progressive rock and metal, were bound to come across true polymaths...

FOCUS

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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

Michael Whiteside·May 19, 2023

Everyone knows that being in a band is, for all intents and purposes, awesome. Literally, just think of...

FOCUS Gear

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FOCUS // WHERE SUNFLOWERS GROW: PATRICK SHIROISHI ON CAPTURING THE MOMENT, NAVIGATING THE RECORDING PROCESS, AND THE HAUNTING LEGACY OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066

Michael Whiteside·May 15, 2023

If you’ve had your ear to just about any indie adjacent scene in music the last few years,...

FOCUS

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FOCUS // HEATHEN SPIRITUALS: EX-SWANS PERCUSSIONIST THOR HARRIS DISCUSSES HIS NEW ALBUM THOR AND FRIENDS

FOCUS // MMIW AWARENESS DAY: VERN FROM TURIAN HELPS US FACE FACTS AND EXPLAINS HOW MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN BECAME A CENTRAL THEME FOR BLOOD QUANTUM BLUES

FOCUS // DOG DAYS WITH NOKILL PEDAL CO: ALEX BROWN ON MASHING SONIC OPPOSITES, BIRTHING THE BORZOI GLITCH FUZZ, AND THE DETAILS OF OUR AMAZING GIVEAWAY

RELEASE-O-METER

NEW MUSIC // STRESS POSITIONS LEAVE A CRATER IN OUR SKULLS WITH HUMAN ZOO EP

FOCUS // HEATHEN SPIRITUALS: EX-SWANS PERCUSSIONIST THOR HARRIS DISCUSSES HIS NEW ALBUM THOR AND FRIENDS

NEW MUSIC // [GLAZIER] HAVE NO FEAR WITH DEBUT LP PHOBIAS

REGULARS

Stage Kids – Recess (2020)

Standards – Fruit Island (2020)

Delta Sleep – Younger Years (2019)

EXCLUSIVES

EXCLUSIVE // LILLY LEGIT DROP THEIR FIRST OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO WITH NEW SINGLE “WITHOUT”

EXCLUSIVE // LAUGH AND GROW FAT WITH PEOPLE FOOD AND THEIR SPRAWLING NEW ODYSSEY THE ORGAN TREE

EXCLUSIVE // KOENJIHYAKKEI ANNOUNCE LUXURIOUS DOUBLE LP LIVE AT CLUB GOODMAN

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FOCUS // GROWING ASIDE: THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MATH ROCK DOCUMENTARY IS FINALLY RELEASED

NEW MUSIC // FOX LAKE OFFICIALLY EMBARK ON “THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY” WITH NEW MUSIC VIDEO

NOT ANOTHER FECKING GIG REVIEW // TOEHIDER, CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, AND NO SUCH ANIMAL AT THE URBAN LOUNGE

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GEAR // MEASURING SUCCESS: DESIGNING THE S-6, ADAPTING TO TARIFFS, AND EMBODYING NOISE ROCK WITH FLORIAN SCHNEIDER OF MILLIMETRIC INSTRUMENTS

GEAR // NOT ANOTHER FECKING GEAR REVIEW + GIVEAWAY: RUNNING WILD WITH THE NOKILL PEDAL CO BORZOI GLITCH FUZZ

FOCUS // DOG DAYS WITH NOKILL PEDAL CO: ALEX BROWN ON MASHING SONIC OPPOSITES, BIRTHING THE BORZOI GLITCH FUZZ, AND THE DETAILS OF OUR AMAZING GIVEAWAY

GAMES

GAMES // THE 2.0’S DAY MUSIC DUMP: HOLD ON TO YOUR BITS AS WE DIVE INTO THE LAST NINETY DAYS OF SCORES AND ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS

GAMES // BUNGIE JUMPING: THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE LEGENDARY STUDIO BEHIND HALO, DESTINY, AND MULTIPLE ACTS OF PLAGIARISM

FOCUS // FROM SWEAT ROCK TO CYBERPUNK: AN INTRODUCTION TO V1DEOBOY

FOCUS

FOCUS // THE PREQUEL: OUR TOP TEN RECORDS OF 2023 AND/OR AN ODE TO PHYSICAL FORMAT

FOCUS // DON’T FALL IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF, OR DO: A CLIP FROM OUR RECENT CONVERSATION WITH JUSTIN PEARSON ON THE DOCUMENTARY THAT COVERS HIS CHILDHOOD, THE LOCUST, THREE ONE G, AND A HELL OF A LOT MORE

FOCUS // NATIVE AUDIO’S MIKE TROMBLEY ON REVERSE ENGINEERING, HIGHER EDUCATION, AND THE POWER OF PRESERVING THE BLACKFEET LANGUAGE THROUGH EFFECTS PEDALS

FOCUS // FORGET THE TURKEY: EVERY MOTHERFUCKER IS YOUR BROTHER IS A YEAR OLD, SO WE TALKED WITH OORT SMOG’S PATRICK SHIROISHI AND MARK KIMBRELL TO CELEBRATE

FOCUS // REAL HOT GIRL SHIT: FAYE FADEM ON THE ORIGINS OF TRUST FUND OZU, HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER DAW, AND THE KICKSTARTER BEHIND ONE OF 2023’S MOST IMPRESSIVE RECORDS

FOCUS // THE REDNECK MANIFESTO ARE BRAZIL 20 YEARS ON

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

FOCUS // WHERE SUNFLOWERS GROW: PATRICK SHIROISHI ON CAPTURING THE MOMENT, NAVIGATING THE RECORDING PROCESS, AND THE HAUNTING LEGACY OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066

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