Jul 28, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Rain Boar is a project of Zaii Valdes (Violet Silhouette) bridging shoegaze, post-punk/hardcore, and experimental-folk. I caught up with Zaii to talk about their early musical experiences, how they started writing songs and the making of their new record “Sea...
Jul 28, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
LA’s visceral dance-punk trio PUREST FORM sign to Dais Records for their next EP RESISTANCE, coming September 4. Vocalist Story Beeson, guitarist / programmer Madi Woodward, and bassist Riley Oikawa-Dahlson draw on their respective backgrounds in hardcore bands, and a...
Jul 27, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Monolord, who return to the U.S. in late August, have released a live video for the song “Iodine” from their recently released album, Neverending. The video captures one of the band’s first performances supporting the Sylvia Massy-produced album, intercut with...
Jul 23, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Fearless, self-aware, and irresistibly hooky, Brooklyn’s Van Chamberlain arrive with their most charged-up track yet; “Fantasy TBD.” Their latest summer anthem channels defiant clarity and hard-won independence through saturated guitars and lyrical imagery of bad...
Jul 23, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, poet and multi-disciplinary artist Emma Ruth Rundle debuts her cutting new single “Enough” from her forthcoming studio album, These Killing Times. “Enough” serves as a reminder of how Rundle uniquely fuses gentleness and...
Jul 21, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
In the wake of 2025’s acclaimed Inland See, Bitchin Bajas ascend to higher ground with the Isle Peaks EP! Isle Peaks was initially released as a 2-song Qobuz exclusive, but Bitchin Bajas are a band of the people, for the people – and the people demanded...
