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FLOOD • 5th September 2023

Divide and Dissolve on the Internal and External Liberation of “Systemic”

"As a Black and Indigenous person, being in my joy and being in my relaxation in a world that’s devastated by colonization and overrun with white supremacy—my joy is in opposition to those forces."

FLOOD • 5th September 2023

Codefendants Are Searching for Their Golden Moment

“We’re all criminals and we’re drug addicts so I think we know pretty well to speak about these things.”

Spin • 31st August 2023

Paerish Is Making Its American Dreams Come True

"For us, it’s like running a marathon with foam legs."

Kerrang! • 15th August 2023

The XCERTS: “We wanted to write songs like we were 14 again – nothing…

EP review: The Xcerts – So No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way

The Xcerts pull down the blinds and wrap up on cosy covers EP, So No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way

Kerrang! • 19th July 2023

Kerrang! cover feature: The Dirty Nil

“We despise and cackle at the carnival game that is the music industry”

Bandcamp Daily • 19th July 2022

Queen Kwong Aim Straight for the Heart on “Couples Only”

The article that made Wes Borland so mad he sued his ex-wife for defamation...and lost

FLOOD • 20th April 2022

Desaparecidos - Live At Shea Stadium

Recorded on June 23, 2015—two days after the album came out and almost 18 months before Hillary Clinton and the Democrats’ self-serving neoliberalism caused them to lose an “unlosable” election against a dumb, ignorant, and barely literate failed businessman—it could be seen as foreshadowing.

FLOOD • 20th April 2022

Proper., “The Great American Novel”

"It’s always those who are best represented who complain loudest about the representation of others."

FLOOD • 20th April 2022

Jawbreaker on Survival, Reconciling with the Past, and the Legacy of “Dear You”

"I want to write about what is driving me insane, and as I’ve grown older that’s tended to be more and more outside of myself. Now I’m not driving me insane—fascists are driving me insane. And so how do you write about that in a way that’s poignant and not MSNBC?"

Kerrang! • 18th April 2022

Album review: Bob Vylan – Bob Vylan Presents The Price Of Life

When the revolution comes, Bob Vylan will be leading the charge, and they’ll adding bodies to Maggie’s grave. Boris – you’ve been warned.

Kerrang! • 6th April 2022

Kerrang! cover feature: HEALTH

“We always thought we were making music for a post-Skynet landscape..."

Kerrang! • 9th March 2022

Kerrang! cover feature - Drug Church

“Not a single musician who is who we want him to be...”

Kerrang! • 19th January 2022

Kerrang! cover feature: Ho99o9

"Our attitude is like Suge Knight in the ’90s. He was feared. People were scared…"

FLOOD • 26th November 2021

Mountain Time Unveils Part 3 of Their “The Story of Saint Francis, Zookeeper” Video Series

“What’s in a name?” asks Juliet to her beloved in Act II, Scene II of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” That’s probably not what Chris Simpson was thinking when he decided to rename his post-Mineral, post-Gloria Record project, but it’s fitting nonetheless.

SPIN • 10th November 2021

With Here and Now, Gates Return From the Almost Dead

Being told you’re cancer-free should be cause for joyous celebration. But Gates vocalist/guitarist Kevin Dye was also struck by a more negative reaction when told an operation to remove a cancerous growth on his lungs was completely successful. It sent him into a deep spiral of existential depression.

He’d first noticed something was wrong in April and May 2018, when he noticed he was repeatedly getting pneumonia. After numerous trips to the doctor, tests determined he had cancer. About a month

Kerrang! • 4th November 2021

25 Years Of Vagrant Records

From a family-funded Get Up Kids album to becoming a lynchpin of 2000s emo, we look back on Vagrant Records’ reluctant rise…

Kerrang! • 2nd November 2021

Connie Sgarbossa and the brutally honest pain behind SeeYouSpaceCowboy

SeeYouSpaceCowboy and nothing,nowhere. drop new single, Rhythm And Rapture

Hear SYSC and nothing,nowhere.’s new collab Rhythm And Rapture, which was “created out of a desire to mix ’00s dancey indie rock like Foals, Cut Off Your Hands and Bloc Party with a post-hardcore sound”.

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."

FLOOD • 26th March 2021

In Conversation: Bright Eyes Persevere on “Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was”

"We’ve all experienced loss, and your choices are to give up, or move toward resilience and eventually acceptance, and I feel like that’s the better path if you have the energy for it."

 Kerrang! • 26th March 2021

Jawbreaker feature

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

FLOOD • 26th March 2021

Bright Eyes interview

"I always find that if I have a life experience, it’s not going to come out in a song the next day. It sort of has to live in the storage area, in the basement of my brain where I stash all that stuff."

 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.