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Nicholas Pentabona wrote “Aroused” thinking about his partner, Jenice Taylor — specifically about how she’s had several major life events through the years that made her feel trapped, and how she now feels, at 35, that she can “get out of bed” and make large changes. The song opens Side B of Bedtimemagic’s fourth LP, runs under two minutes, an...

You can read a thousand pieces about how 2026 teenagers are being eaten by their phones. Petrichor — four DC kids between 14 and 16 — spent roughly half a year writing a hardcore-leaning protest song instead. It’s out April 24 as “Richest Witches of the West.” The band — Mae Zellmer (15, lead guitar, vocals), Augusta Smith (16, bass, vocals, lyricist), Camille ...

Post-hardcore these days is such a catch-all term that bands filed under it can sound like emotional pop-rock with extra pedals at one end, or like something three steps from black metal at the other. Oshira sit a lot closer to the second end of that. The Mexico City duo — Manuel Espinoza on drums, Ashel on guitar and vocals — are out today with debut EP “Vorágine,” ...

No Turning Back was written before the worst of it. Hold Me Tight‘s vocalist Franz put down the lyrics and vocal lines over an already-existing track, from a moment before the illness, before the surgery, while she was still pulling out of another toxic relationship. The Sardinia hardcore band self-release the single on April 24, marking their first material in about a yea...

In late summer 2024, Diamond Weapon frontman Louis Tentsos was standing in a jam space in Toronto, singing gibberish over a new song he didn’t have lyrics for yet. He was hunting for a melody. Then, half for fun, he started singing the words to “Adam’s Song” by Blink 182 — and the lyrics, a song about loss he hadn’t thought about in years, hit him h...