Firestone Elementary disappeared for two decades and came back because teenagers started finding them. The five friends from ...

At 45, after almost 25 years at Revelation Records, Adam Lentz finally has the money, time and room at home to run a label of his own. He has wanted one since ...

Michael Coates had barely touched a guitar in more than a decade when one of his old ones ended up hanging on the wall of his office. At some point he started taking it down and playing again, without ...

AJJ, the band formerly known by the self denounced name Andrew Jackson Jihad, helped ground me during trials and tribulations of my life, namely twice. AJJ has a career spanning decades from their ...

Edmonton is small and isolated enough that False Body guitarist Lee Zacharko has already watched its hardcore scene thin out before. He remembers periods when the number of local bands and people ...

There is a certain kind of emo and melodic indie rock that has always got to me very quickly. It has enough edge in the guitars to keep things interesting, but it never treats emotion as something ...

The day after Trouble Bound’s 25th anniversary show in July 2024, Johnny No-Keys woke up with a fast riff already moving around his head. The previous night had been one of those good ones, full of ...

Break To Broken still carry plenty of the clipped guitars, restless rhythm and punk economy that first connected them through Fugazi and the wider Dischord orbit. On “The Hope Experiment“, that shared ...

The strangest thing about calling an album “joy” is how quickly the word starts to look suspicious. Repeat it enough and it loses its certainty. Is joy pleasure? Contentment? Purpose? Relief? A ...

Before the old Magnavox radio ended up on a French Inhaler record, it spent some time in Adam O’Leary’s dining room. He had tracked it down specifically for the band’s recording session, brought it ...

There is a small moment inside “Loss In Space” where Cluv Deego can be heard telling bassist Dudesblood Moonbear when to enter with the layered vocals. Sliimo were tracking the song themselves in ...

Night shifts in a hotel in Norway, cheap headphones, "Kezia" going round somewhere between two and five in the morning. That is where PROTEST THE HERO got me.