Apr 22, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Monolord have released “Oozing Wound”, the second preview of their upcoming album, Neverending (May 29, Relapse Records) “It’s the first song we’ve done in a drop tuning,” vocalist/guitarist Thomas Jäger reveals. “We usually play in B, but ‘Oozing Wound,’ ‘You...
Apr 21, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Franklin (sometimes written as “!franklin”) was a cornerstone of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s 1990s DIY punk scene. From their formation in 1992 to their breakup in 2000, they carved out a sound entirely their own. Neither fully emo nor strictly punk,...
Apr 21, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
Songs Album II is LA musician Aaron MF Olson’s Country Thyme Records debut, the second “sung songs” album from the L.A. Takedown architect in just over a decade of releasing music. Mixing satiric, confessional and experimental lyric modes in his songs, Songs Album II...
Apr 21, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
For over 25 years, 100 Demons have stood as one of hardcore’s most uncompromising forces— a band built on raw conviction and a sound that refuses to be boxed in. With Embrace the Black Light, their long-awaited third album incoming on Closed Casket Activities,...
Apr 17, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, Interviews, News & Notes
Lia Mead is a contemporary composer and songwriter based in New York City who focuses on optimism and inspiring hope in the people who listen to their music. I caught up with Lia to talk about their early musical experiences, how they started making music and the new...
Apr 17, 2026 | Dave Allison, Features, News & Notes
The second full-length by Bay Area artist Kathryn Mohr—Carve— was written over the course of five years and recorded over several weeks in a rural singlewide in the Mojave Desert, the album centers on love experienced as a form of grief, not as an aftermath of...
