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FOCUS // ANTIDOTES FOR NOSTALGIA: LOOKING BACK AT FOALS
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
When somebody finally works up the gall to bring up math rock in a conversation, you can be...
FOCUS // PEOPLE FOOD DELIVER THE GOODS WHEN IT COMES TO TASTEFULLY HEATED HONKERS AND FRIENDSHIP FUELED MATH ROCK
We’ve said it before, we’ll surely say it again – as far as music publications go, we are...
FOCUS // 36 HOURS FOR 30 MINUTES: AN ARCTANGENT TOUR DIARY FROM SEIMS
SEIMS initially received our invitation to play the ATG main stage in 2020. We’d just come off the...
FOCUS // CLOSURE IN MOSCOW ONCE AGAIN DRIVE US TO THE BRINK OF MANIA AFTER TEASING NEW MATERIAL
To be honest, at least as of press time, we’ve heard less than thirty seconds of whatever it...
FOCUS // SUNFLO’ER GIVE US THE BEAT ON RECORDING WITH URIAN HACKNEY, PERFECTING THEIR SOUND, AND THE DENSITY OF NEW YORK MATHCORE
Potsdam’s punky mathcore stalwarts Sunflo’er release all these darlings and now me on Dark Trail Records any minute...
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
It’s a breezy, heated morning over here in the desert, yet somehow it seems like a truly perfect...
FOCUS // GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! ON SURVIVING TOUR, MATH ROCK LONGEVITY, AND THE SONIC SIGH OF RELEASE BEHIND DEATH BREATH
As many of you already know, math rock’s beloved Giraffes? Giraffes! set sail for an East Coast tour...
FOCUS // IN WHICH WE RECOVER THE LOST DELTA SLEEP INTERVIEW AND CELEBRATE ANOMALIA FEST
When the pandemic was in full swing, Fecking Bahamas started doing livestream interviews on Instagram. On December 10th...
FOCUS // KICKING OUT THE JAMS: MARCOS MENA ON KEEPING THINGS FRESH WITH THE LATEST STANDARDS RECORD
Last week standards dropped their flavorful full length with Fruit Town, a tasteful smorgasbord of wacky guitars, melodic...