FLOOD • 16th April 2021

Feeling Spaced: 25 Years of Modest Mouse’s “This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About”

There’s no need for time, yet still it’s always there, even if you wish it weren’t.

 Kerrang! • 14th April 2021

Vinnie Caruana Gives The Most Depressing Interview of His Career

"It’s been a few years, and things have gotten more bleak since the last time I wrote a record. I don’t want to write a bleak record — I like to think that there’s hope in all of the despair that you find in my tunes — but this one felt different."

FLOOD • 14th April 2021

In Conversation: Ben Howard on the Unlikely Tales of “Collections From the Whiteout”

"Records are a war of attrition—I find just getting over the finish line makes them worth putting out."

 Kerrang! • 26th March 2021

Jawbreaker feature

"I was at war with myself towards the end of Jawbreaker."

 Kerrang! • 26th March 2021

John Feldmann interview

"I became a derelict pretty quickly when I started doing drugs and drinking...When my friends’ parents would go out of town, we would just steal everything from their parents’ room, and trade it for cocaine.

 Kerrang! • 26th March 2021

How Jason Aalon Butler became rock's voice for the voiceless

​“One form of protest, I think, in America is black joy – seeing black people have fun is like a form of protest, because it does actually cause quite a stir for people that would rather we not."

FLOOD • 26th March 2021

In Conversation: Frank Watkinson on Cheering Viewers Up with Sad Songs

"I’ve always thought that if you’re going to sing a song, you’ve got to try to believe the song."

FLOOD • 18th October 2019

In Conversation: Refused’s Dennis Lyxzén Is Still Writing War Music

"There’s nothing in the world that I wish more than for our role as a band or as musicians to be superfluous. I would want me to not matter anymore."

 Kerrang! • 16th August 2019

Decoding Jawbreaker's Monumental 24 Hour Revenge Therapy 25 Years On

"The root of the song was the divergence of me and my girlfriend’s lives and the reality of that was that we were living 20 blocks away from one another and yet we were miles apart at the same time."

 Kerrang! • 7th August 2019

Searching For Tim Kasher: A Night With Cursive In New York

“If there’s anything that’s maybe manipulative, it’s that only I know what’s real and what’s not. And I’m sorry to the reader or the listener if they don’t get to know everything. But that’s also the shroud of mystery that you maybe should keep.”

  • 4th August 2019

Why Alex Rosamilia Has Swapped Gaslight Anthem For Doom And Gloom —

"When you go, it’s lights out – it goes black and that’s the end of it. You don’t have to worry about it anymore. Everybody else, you’re witnessing it and have to go through it. You feel that separation. Your death is the only time you don’t have to feel that separation."

  • 3rd August 2019

An Oral History Of Taking Back Sunday

"I think somehow we just needed that time apart to come back together again. "

FLOOD • 3rd August 2019

The New Era of Boogarins

"It’s really hard to make a living in Brazil from just playing music, but if we can continue to make people feel stuff with ours, I’d like to do that for my entire life."

  • 3rd August 2019

EXCLUSIVE: Lagwagon's Joey Cape Drowns Out The Sad On New Album, Let Me Know When You Give Up —

"The moment people started discussing politics with me I’d have a playlist of songs that I love – relaxing and beautiful melodies – and I’d put those headphones in and turn it up."

  • 3rd August 2019

The Worst Fonts In Metal And Hardcore —

Never underestimate the power of a good font. Even in the world of rock and metal, this still rings true. Think Iron Maiden or Metallica got famous just because of their songs? Wrong: they likely wouldn’t be the superstars they are today had they not used such iconic lettering. And the biggest part of that — as anyone who used the Metallica font generator that went viral a while ago can tell you — is the font in one’s band name or album title. Sadly, not every band cares about graphic design. In

 Kerrang! • 3rd August 2019

Scott Stapp: "I Should Not Be Here. It's Only By The Grace Of God That I Was Spared" —

"When I was in those dark places, there was no creativity, there was no inspiration, there was no music. The only times I’ve ever been able to create were during periods where I wasn’t using and abusing."

FLOOD • 3rd August 2019

Panda Bear’s Noah Lennox Hopes New Record “Buoys” Can Be “An Antidote to the Poison”

"I wouldn’t say it’s an escape as much as an antidote to the poison. I feel—and not just in the States—that there seems to be this wave of division and of keeping the outsiders out. I wanted to make something that encouraged or presented the opposite sort of feeling, something that felt more like an embrace, something that was opening the door rather than shutting it."

 Kerrang! • 3rd August 2019

Comfortably Glum: A Lengthy Conversation With Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles About Satan, Survival And America —

"These fucking billionaires trying to build rocket ships when they’ve got enough money that everybody could eat. Why would we feed everybody when we could build a rocket ship? And all the rich people can live in some app. Yippee. Get the fuck out of here with that shit."

Kerrang! • 14th November 2018

Single Mothers' Drew Thomson On Punk, Alcoholism And The Road To Happiness —

"I didn’t realise how depressed I was for so many years, and I think a lot of that had to do with alcohol abuse and just drinking kind of every day to try to get out of this spiral and I would be so sad and I would blame it all the time just on being hungover."

Kerrang! • 14th November 2018

La Dispute, No Sleep, 'The Wave' And Somewhere… Revisited, 10 Years On

A decade on, Somewhere… , in all its re-amped glory, remains as powerful and moving as ever. It is, as it was, an unrelenting torrent of bleak desperation, full of rage at the futility of trying to claw back something that’s long since gone, something (or someone) who was so close and dear to you, that was an inextricable part of you, but which is now removed, vanished, separated by a body of water that will never – ever – let you get close to it again.