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So you went looking for something original, awkward, and wired slightly wrong again? Good. Here’s Boi Toi: grunge dragged through psych post-hardcore panic, freaked-out funk hardcore, Primus-level bodily discomfort, and a little Tool-adjacent tension, every part sounding like it has seen something it shouldn’t have. And then there’s the cassette sealed inside a replica food can ...

“Silence Before Rebirth” was already sitting inside Hold Me Tight before Fran knew what it was about. The Sardinian hardcore band had written the music while she was away from the stage, recovering from illness, surgery, and the long fallout of everything that had been building around her life. At that point, the song had another name: “last song.” “When I got sick, Hold Me Tigh...

Warm, slow-burning psych-pop with soft falsettos, dusky guitars, synths moving like light across a room, and enough weight underneath to keep it from floating away. That is where Meltt land on “Pathways,” their third album, out today, June 12, via Nettwerk Music Group. The Vancouver quartet arrive here after their first EU/UK run, nine cities from Istanbul to Dot to Dot Festival...

hairpin’s new single starts in a boxing ring. “Meet me in the ring, ready for another round,” Adam Edwards sings, “winded by your words, hoping they knock me out.” The fight is rhetorical: Edwards is mapping the futility of arguing with someone who’s already decided they’ve won. “Framing” is hairpin’s first single since...

Foreign Film take their name from a song on Will Haven’s 1997 debut “El Diablo”, which gives you most of what you need to know about Jeff Irwin’s intentions for the project. The Sacramento guitarist and primary songwriter of Will Haven started writing for Foreign Film in 2023 to chase down ideas that wouldn’t fit inside his main band’s metalli...