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We Never Learned To Live / Human Future – ‘Split’

The art of the patient post-rock build up and cathartic hardcore release may have been overdone in recent years, but We Never Learned to Live and Human Futures have largely navigated any potential pitfalls on this split EP. We Never Learned to Live’s ‘Marionettes’ takes its time forging its

Verses – ‘Feel It Faster’

Pop-rock is a genre that is increasingly at risk of becoming over-saturated. As a handful of bands become more and more deservingly successful, recently it seems as though there’s a fair amount of bandwagon-hopping occurring. This could, unfortunately, lead to watering down a genre that is brilliant when it’s

Thursday 05 June 2014

American Football post music video for ‘Never Meant’

Seemingly treating their recent reissue as a whole new lease of life on their 15-year-old (!) debut album, American Football today posted a music video for twinkly emo classic ‘Never Meant’. Ready the tissues and stream it below. The band re-released the aforementioned album on vinyl, cassette and CD through

Chuck Ragan – ‘Till Midnight’

When you read the words ‘rip-off’, the assumption is that whatever is being described is a butchery of something that has already been done. For that reason, Chuck Ragan’s latest solo record, ‘Till Midnight’ is best described as a tribute rather than a rip-off. One song in and hints

Mixtapes frontman releases PWYL album from new project Youth Culture

  Ryan Rockwell – frontman of Ohio’s pop-punk crew Mixtapes – has returned with a solo effort under the moniker Youth Culture. Coupling the reveal with a full album stream over at Bandcamp, Rockwell talks of the project as a darker side to

Braid stream new song ‘No Coast’

Emo poster-boys Braid have revealed another at new material since their reformation. Ballsy and emotional, ‘No Coast’ is a barbed return to the heyday of 90s emo. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, singer and guitarist Bob Nanna said, “The album was titled No Coast before any of the songs were

Wednesday 04 June 2014

Bear Trade – ‘Blood And Sand’

Bear Trade describe themselves as a band “with a love of the punk and the rock and the beers and the gigs and the just having fun.” If there were any good reasons to write songs as a band, it would be these. It gives the impression of not

Tuesday 03 June 2014

’68 post ‘Track One’ and album details (Josh Scogin, ex The Chariot)

’68, the new project from Josh Scogin (formerly of The Chariot) have revealed details of their upcoming debut album ‘In Humour And Sadness’, along with the first track from the album. Fittingly, the track is titled ‘Track One’ (they’re all named as such). Stream it below, and check out the

Climates release new single/video ‘Heaven (Is Only In My Head)’

Melodic hardcore troupe Climates have today released their new single ‘Heaven (Is Only In My Head)’, taken from their forthcoming debut album (due this autumn). Stream the track and its accompanying music video below, and pick it up on iTunes here.

Candy Hearts stream new track ‘All The Ways You Let Me Down’

Sugary pop punk trio Candy Hearts are streaming a new track over at Noisey. ‘All The Ways You Let Me Down’ is the title-track from the band’s upcoming album, available for pre-order through the Bridge 9 store. Candy Hearts return to the UK in November as part of the