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! • 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…

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."